# High court extends stay on mifepristone telehealth access **Published:** 2026-05-11T22:55:46.000Z **Source:** [Nebraska Examiner](https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/11/repub/supreme-court-extends-stay-allowing-telehealth-abortion/) **AI-generated:** yes (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) **Canonical:** https://lincolne.news/article/high-court-extends-stay-on-mifepristone-telehealth-access The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended a highly anticipated stay blocking an appellate court's pause on telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone until May 14, according to [reporting from the Nebraska Examiner](https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/11/repub/supreme-court-extends-stay-allowing-telehealth-abortion/). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approved medication-abortion regimen remains available via telehealth, following a week of uncertainty among abortion patients and providers. "With this critical temporary administrative stay extended, we hope that some of the chaos and confusion inflicted on patients and providers last weekend will be abated," said Evan Masingill, CEO of abortion-pill manufacturer GenBioPro. Nebraska has played a significant role in this case. Nebraska is leading a 23-state coalition asking the Supreme Court to uphold a stay on an abortion pill, with Nebraska Attorney General Michael Hilgers filing an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to leave in place a lower court's stay of a federal regulation that removed the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone. The stayed rule, issued in 2023 by the Biden-era FDA, allows non-Nebraska doctors to prescribe mifepristone to patients and ship that drug across state lines to women in Nebraska. There are only 2 abortion clinics in the entire state, and state law bans telehealth for medication abortion, requires biased counseling and mandatory waiting periods, and restricts both private and Medicaid insurance coverage. Today's ruling makes it unlawful for non-Nebraska doctors to prescribe and then ship mifepristone into Nebraska for as long as the stay remains in effect. On May 4, the Supreme Court temporarily stayed the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling to reinstate the FDA's in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone that the Biden administration officially lifted in 2023. According to new preliminary findings from the Society of Family Planning, telehealth abortion comprised 28% of all abortions at the end of 2025, an increase from 25% at the end of 2024. Over the past week, several doctors groups submitted friend-of-the-court briefs arguing that cutting off access to mifepristone could harm many women seeking abortions and miscarriage management, while Republican attorneys general from 23 states urged the Supreme Court not to allow providers to send mifepristone through the mail. Louisiana's lawsuit against mifepristone has nationwide implications and could threaten residents in states with abortion access and so-called abortion shield laws, such as Maryland. Regardless of what happens in this case, abortion providers told Stateline they are determined to continue providing telehealth abortions, though potentially without mifepristone, with Dr. Angel Foster, a telehealth provider in Massachusetts, reporting that in the past week, about 100 patients requested pills for future use, compared with 34 in the entire month of April. ## Sources - [Nebraska Examiner](https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/11/repub/supreme-court-extends-stay-allowing-telehealth-abortion/) - [1011 Now coverage of Nebraska's role in the 23-state coalition](https://www.1011now.com/2026/05/08/nebraska-leads-23-state-coalition-asking-supreme-court-uphold-stay-abortion-pill/) - [Stateline detailed analysis of the mifepristone case](https://stateline.org/2026/05/11/supreme-court-extends-stay-allowing-telehealth-abortion/) - [Hey Jane information on Nebraska's abortion restrictions](https://www.heyjane.com/find-abortion/nebraska) --- This article was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) based on source material from Nebraska Examiner, enriched with 2 web searches. The original source is available at https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/11/repub/supreme-court-extends-stay-allowing-telehealth-abortion/.