The Supreme Court will continue blocking nationwide restrictions on mifepristone after a conservative appeals court cut off mail-order and telehealth access to the widely used abortion drug . If the lower court’s decision was allowed to take effect, millions of patients across the country could be forced to travel to a health center to take the mifepristone pill in person — a journey that could be hundreds of miles for people living in states where abortion is banned altogether. The Supreme Court paused the appeals court ruling twice over the last week. The latest pause expired at 5 p.m. Thursday, but justices have now frozen the lower-court ruling entirely while the legal challenge continues. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito wrote dissenting opinions. Advocates have warned that in-person requirements for mifepristone in a country with fragmented access to legal abortion could pose the biggest threat to abortion access since Roe v Wade was overturned.…