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![Equipment set up for journalists outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday, June 13, 2024. The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected a bid to sharply curtail access to the widely available abortion pill mifepristone, finding that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) XNYT0180 XNYT0180](https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/06132024_court_tzr_122513.jpg?d=780x501)
The abortion pill fight is not over. Here’s what is next VIEW
The court said the plaintiffs in this case did not have standing to sue. Other plaintiffs might try, and the ruling could prompt other efforts...
![FILE – A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. The Supreme Court is facing a self-imposed Friday, April 21, 2023, night deadline to decide whether women’s access to a widely used abortion pill will stay unchanged until a legal challenge to its Food and Drug Administration approval is resolved. The justices are weighing arguments that allowing restrictions contained in lower-court rulings to take effect would severely disrupt the availability of the drug, mifepristone, which is used in the most common abortion method in the United States. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)](https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/06132024_tzr_tzr_101502.jpg?d=780x501)
WA considers next steps with abortion pill stockpile after Supreme Court ruling
Washington advocates and politicians react to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday that allows continued access to the abortion pill.
![Scott Smith, whose testing in East Palestine, Ohio, has been cited in a petition by the Government; Accountability Project, tests onions grown in the garden of Tamara Lynn Freeze in East Palestine, Ohio on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Freeze, who lives across the street from the site of the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on Feb. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) OHGP103 OHGP103](https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/06132024_OhioToxins-tzrJune13_tzr_123627.jpg?d=780x501)
Toxic garlic should have prompted EPA to warn against gardening near Ohio derailment, watchdog says VIEW
A watchdog group says the Environmental Protection Agency should conduct additional soil studies around the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio after independent...