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Weekend: Abortion drug access reaffirmed in US

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Abortion drug access reaffirmed in US

22/04/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Abortion drug access reaffirmed in US

US Supreme Court says access to widely-used abortion drug can continue in split decision

US Supreme Court says access to widely-used abortion drug can continue in split decision.

The US Supreme Court has preserved access to a commonly used abortion pill in a split decision. It ruled the drug, mifepristone, can remain available while a legal case continues and also rejected restrictions implemented by a lower court. The drug is used for terminations in the first ten weeks of pregnancy.

Also in the programme: One of the biggest names of Korean pop music, or K-pop, died on Wednesday. Moonbin was a member of the boy band Astro and it's thought he took his own life. He's not the first young South Korean celebrity to have died in recent years - we hear more from a South Korean journalist and writer.  

And a leading Russian novelist tells the programme why his work is motivated by the desire to strip away the falsehoods he feels are prevalent in Russian art. 

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Anna Machin, British evolutionary anthropologist, writer and broadcaster and Kunal Purohit, an Indian journalist based in Mumbai.

(Picture: Anti-abortion activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Nathan Howard)

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