Washington state purchases threeyear supply of abortion pill

(Reuters) – Washington state’s government said on Tuesday it had purchased a three-year supply of abortion pill mifepristone as a Texas judge mulls a nationwide ban on the medication’s sale. The state’s Democratic governor directed its Department of Corrections, which has a pharmacy license, to purchase the medication last month, a government statement said. The full shipment was delivered on March 31, it added. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas could soon order the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its 22-year-old approval for a pill used in the most common form of abortion in the United…