U.S. abortion providers relieved but wary as Supreme Court preserves pill access

By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - Abortion rights supporters expressed relief on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court preserved access to a widely used abortion pill but warned of a long fight ahead as a legal challenge to the medication continues. The move by the court to halt new restrictions on the drug set by lower courts was welcome news less than a year after its conservative majority upended U.S. abortion access by overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide. Abortion providers had been stockpiling the abortion pill mifepristone or planning to ...