abortion pill court West Virginia.

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision to restrict abortion pill sales in West Virginia. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a 2023 ruling. That’s despite federal regulators’ approval of it as a safe and effective medication. A district judge determined in 2023 that the near-total abortion ban signed by Republican Gov. Jim Justice took precedence over approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Appeals court judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote that disregarding the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade “is not an option.”