( October 11, 2024, 2:08 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A doctor who sued North Carolina over its laws regulating mifepristone XE "mifepristone" , one of the two drugs prescribed for medication abortions, and the state’s attorney general, who did not object to the doctor’s arguments, on Oct. 10 filed separate opening briefs in the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, urging the appellate court to not only affirm that a district court was correct in holding that certain restrictions on mifepristone are preempted by federal law but also to expand the ruling and find that the restrictions that were upheld are also preempted....