b'The Supreme Court will decide how to move forward after temporarily halting a lower court\'s order which would have restricted access to the abortion medication mifepristone, used in more than half of U.S. abortions.
The issue arrives at the high court as it weathers yet another ethics controversy involving Justice Clarence Thomas. ProPublica reported that the justice has long failed to report lavish gifts from his friend Harlan Crow, a billionaire Republican mega-donor.
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