President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is slated to defend regulations from the Food and Drug Administration that allow abortion pills to be sold online and shipped to patients in the mail.

Court records filed Monday as part of the ongoing litigation involving the abortion drug mifepristone show the Justice Department arguing that GOP-run states in the lawsuit lack standing to sue the agency.

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