Pro-Life Plaintiffs Confident Law Is on Their Side as Abortion-Pill Ruling Looms

Supporters and opponents of chemical-abortion pills are bracing for a ruling in the coming days or weeks that could radically alter how abortions are performed in the United States, stemming from a lawsuit that claims that the Food and Drug Administration never had the authority to approve the use of the pills when it did so nearly a quarter century ago.

The FDA also failed to properly study the safety of the two-pill regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol, and for almost two decades it stonewalled the doctors who were attempting...