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The Donald Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for the second time to reinstate the rule that women must pick up the abortion pill in person, even during the new coronavirus pandemic.
The claim was made on Tuesday, when Trump has a month to leave the White House.
The rule has been suspended since July, due to the pandemic and the possibility that the new Joe Biden government will suspend it during the current health emergency following the new president’s inauguration in January.
The Trump administration has suspended the need for personal travel to obtain other medications, but has refused to relax the rules for obtaining the so-called abortion pill.
Last week, a federal judge dismissed the Trump administration’s arguments, saying the public health risks to patients had only increased as cases of infections with the new coronavirus were breaking records.
Judge Theodore Chuang also stressed that the development of improved vaccines and treatments for the virus had not “significantly altered the current risks and obstacles for women seeking abortion medications.”
The judge’s decision provisionally prohibited the food and drug regulator (FDA) from forcing women to go to hospitals, clinics or doctors’ offices to obtain the drug mifepristone during the pandemic.
The FDA approves the use of mifepristone, in combination with a second drug (misoprostol), to terminate an early pregnancy or manage a spontaneous approach.
In October, the Supreme Court authorized women to continue to obtain the abortion pill by mail.
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