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A federal judge ruled in favor of West Virginia’s restrictions on medication abortion Thursday, dismissing part of a lawsuit brought by an abortion drug manufacturer earlier this year.
District Judge Robert Chambers rejected the manufacturer’s claim that the state’s near-total abortion ban, which took effect last September, conflicted with the US Food and Drug Administration’s regulation and approval of the drugs.
The ban “has limited when an abortion may be performed, without touching how medication abortion is to be performed,” Chambers said in his ruling. Subsequently, he wrote, the court “is compelled to find that federal regulation of medication abortion prescription does not conflict with
