Volume 401, Issue 10385
22 April 2023
WORLD REPORT A lawsuit against the FDA embroils pharmaceutical companies in debates over access to
abortion. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
Less than 1 year after the US Supreme Court ended its 1973 constitutional guarantee to an abortion and told state lawmakers that they could decide whether a person ends their pregnancy, abortion is now back before the court. But this fresh legal challenge has dragged the nation’s entire drug approval system along with it, rousing a powerful lobbying group and economic force that has mostly managed to avoid the fray—the pharmaceutical industry. [Continued here.]…