The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the state of Oklahoma’s request to appeal a ruling that found its ban on medical abortions unconstitutional.
The dismissal follows the state Supreme Court’s ruling last week on the scope of Oklahoma’s 2011 restrictive abortion law. The court decided that the law unconstitutionally restricted physicians’ medical discretion in effectively banning all drug-induced abortions.
Oklahoma’s abortion law was first struck down by a district court in 2012, a decision the state’s Supreme Court upheld. State officials then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a review, which it agreed to on the condition the state’s high court first gave a definitive ruling on the abortion law’s scope.
