The U.S.Supreme Court ruled in favor of maintaining mail shipments of mifepristone, a drug used to terminate pregnancies, without need ity of a face-to-face visit to the doctor, which keeps in suspension the order of a lower court that ordered restricting the availability of the drug.

The ruling, which can be appealed, by the highest U.S.court overrides for the moment the decision of a appeals court in New Orleans that had reinstated the requirement that patients pick up mifepristone in person.

The court did not justify in writing its decision, which relied on the votes of seven of its justices and the dissent of two of its conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr.

Mifepristone, in combination with misoprostol, is the most common method for terminating early pregnancies in the United States.

Its access by mail has become a key way for abortion, especially for women in territories with strong restrictions on e This procedure, after the Supreme himself in 2022 repealed its federal protections and left its regulation in the hands of each state.

Abortion-rights advocates called the decision announced April 30 by a Louisiana court as the largest enaza for access to termination of pregnancy since the Supreme Court overturned four years ago the historic “Roe vs Wade” ruling.

The US highest court had postponed the imposition of what was determined by the state appeals court and its ruling today, the extension for the time being indefinitely, Although the state of Louisiana, which advocates that mailing of mifepristone shouldn't be allowed in states that prohibit or restrict abortion, still has an appeal.