Attorneys for the states of Florida and Texas filed another lawsuit this week seeking to restrict access to a medication abortion drug and rescind the approval of its brand-name and generic versions dating back to 2000.

It’s the latest in a series of actions taken by state Republican officials to limit how mifepristone, one of two drugs used to end a pregnancy before 10 weeks, can be dispensed. It’s also the third lawsuit with similar claims — another is ongoing in Missouri after U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk transferred it out of his court in Texas earlier this year, and Louisiana lodged its own suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October.

Kacsmaryk initially granted a challenge to mifepristone brought by conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom

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