White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters the US Justice Department asked an appeals court on Monday to stay a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that would ban a widely used abortion pill. The ruling "could open the floodgates for other medications to be targeted and denied to people who need them," she adds. SOUNDBITE

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