Spotlight on CA leaders after abortion pill rulings

Doctors and patients in California can rest assured that the abortion pill mifepristone is legal to prescribe and take — for now. Late Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the most significant part of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling last week out of Texas that the FDA’s approval of the drug more than two decades ago was “arbitrary and capricious.” The appellate court’s ruling offers some clarity and security for abortion providers who were hit with a bewildering same-day ruling out of Washington state from a federal...