US supreme court to decide on abortion pill access after extending deadline

Legal challenge to FDA approval of mifepristone could have implications for women's reproductive health across the country

The supreme court is poised to decide whether to preserve access to a widely used abortion medication, after extending its deadline to act until at least Friday.

Less than a year after the court's conservative majority overturned Roe v Wade and eliminated a constitutional right to an abortion, the justices are now reviewing new legal questions raised by an escalating case in Texas with potentially sweeping implications for women's reproductive health and the federal drug approval process.