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Those individuals that don't have transportation or don't have the financial means to travel to another state, really they will have no options.

The Supreme Court protects mail orders of the country's most widely used pill for abortions.

But access still depends a lot on where you live.

It's Monday, May 4th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston.

I'm Chris Bentley.

A little later on today's show, we'll hear how the shutdown of Spirit Airlines unfolded over the weekend,

and what's next for their customers and employees.

For months even leading up to this, you know, Spirit had furloughed a lot of pilots and they

were calling them back at the same thing with flight attendants just so they could staff their

flights in months leading up to the bankruptcy. But first, a single sentence order from the Supreme Court today restored

access to the country's most widely used abortion pill. It was in response to a ruling Friday

from an appeals court that blocked mail orders of Miphypristone. And today's move by the Supreme Court

pauses that ban for at least a week.

Mitha Pristone, also known as RU-486, is the most widely used oral medication approved for abortion

through 10 weeks of pregnancy. Doctors often prescribe it online or over the phone.

Dr. Veronica Gillespie Bell is an OBGYN in New Orleans and a fellow with the American

College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

She told Indira Lakshmanan, the legal back and forth over Mitha Pristone is causing some

confusion for people who might need it.

I think it causes a lot of confusion, not just for patients,

but for physicians as well. I think for patients, the fact that there is any ban then starts to

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