DOJ, drugmaker ask SCOTUS to intervene in abortion drug case
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and a pharmaceutical company on Friday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the court fight over a commonly used abortion drug in order to keep a court ruling restricting availability of the drug from taking effect this weekend.
The applications from the DOJ and Danco Laboratories, which makes the drug mifepristone, went to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who…