The US Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an effort to sharply restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
The decision is a major win for pro-choice activists and comes two years after the court rescinded the nationwide guarantee to an abortion.
The justices decided the plaintiffs, a group of anti-abortion doctors and activists, did not have a legal right to sue.
Mifepristone is one of two drugs used in a medication abortion, now the most common method of terminating pregnancies in the US.
The top court overturned Roe v Wade, effectively rescinding a federal right to abortion, in June 2022.
Since then, 21 states have moved to restrict abortion earlier in pregnancy than the standard it set. Seventeen of those have barred the procedure at six weeks or earlier.
Medication abortion - using pills sent by mail - has quickly become an effective workaround to those bans.
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