Selina Simmons-Duffin

The state of Louisiana filed this lawsuit last October, arguing that telemedicine access allows residents to get around the state's abortion ban.

Federal Judge David C. Joseph, a Trump appointee, was sympathetic in his ruling to the state's arguments, but he granted a request from the Food and Drug Administration to put the case on hold while the agency does a review of the safety of the medicine, Mifepristone.

In the ruling, he wrote, quote, It is FDA, not this court, that possesses the expertise to evaluate scientific evidence and make public health judgments.

The judge ordered FDA to report on its progress in six months.

Mifepristone has been approved and available in the U.S.

for more than 25 years.

Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.

It's in the words, birthright, citizenship.

So this is about babies.

This impacts every baby born in America.

This week on the NPR Politics Podcast.

In Iran, President Trump is both escalating and de-escalating, pausing strikes on energy sites, claiming Iran wants to make a deal, but also moving troops to the region.

We unpack what we know about where those troops are headed and how talks are playing out behind closed doors.

This week on the NPR Politics Podcast.

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Dr. Ralph Abraham came to the CDC in December after serving as Louisiana's Surgeon General.

In that role, he had banned vaccine promotion and events by the state health department.

During his brief tenure as second in command at CDC, he told reporters on a press call that the U.S.

potentially losing its measles elimination status would be, quote, not really, unquote, significant.

CDC has only had a permanent director for one month of the last year.