Federal court preserves access to abortion pill but tightens rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Instead, she detailed a proposed a new federal rule to limit how law enforcement and state officials collect medical records if they investigate women who flee their home states to seek abortions elsewhere.
41% : Democratic leaders in states where abortion remains legal since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year say they are preparing in case mifepristone becomes restricted.
40% : Still, preventing the pill from being sent by mail amounts to another major curtailing of abortion access, less than a year after the reversal of Roe v. Wade resulted in more than a dozen states effectively banning abortion outright.
38% : The ruling late Wednesday temporarily narrowed a decision by a lower court judge in Texas that had completely blocked the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the nation's most commonly used method of abortion.

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