US supreme court agrees to consider abortion pill access
“You can’t just bring random lawsuits in court. You actually have to have been harmed by something,” said Greer Donley, an associate law professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. “That’s really what standing analysis is all about, to try to figure out if if the people who bring the lawsuit actually have a stake in the case.” Numerous legal experts have questioned whether the challengers in this case have properly demonstrated that they have been harmed by mifepristone’s continued legality.
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Supreme Court to hear case on access to mifepristone abortion pill
Blocking mifepristone would make it impossible to continue providing the standard regimen of medication abortion care — meaning that the Supreme Court’s decision could dramatically reshape what abortion-related care medical providers can offer, even in states where the procedure remains legal.
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Supreme Court to decide whether abortion pill will remain widely available
“As we noted in our friend of the court brief earlier this year, disrupting the market for mifepristone would cause substantial, irreparable harm, and we call on the Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit’s ruling,” Evan Masingill, CEO of GenBioPro, which manufactures the generic version of the pill, said in a statement. “We remain concerned about extremists and special interests using the courts in an attempt to undermine science and access to evidence-based medication, as well as attempts to undermine the FDA’s regulatory authority.”
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Supreme Court Will Hear Biggest Abortion Case Since Dobbs
There are also timeliness and exhaustion questions, concerning whether the groups brought their complaints soon enough and whether they went through the proper agency channels first. The high court might be more than happy to home in on the procedural issues and sidestep another (highly electorally motivating) abortion bombshell. Pharmaceutical companies, advocates and experts have also warned that upending the FDA’s approval of mifepristone could open the floodgates to an enormous tranche of drugs and medical devices being challenged too.
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The Supreme Court will hear its biggest abortion case since it overruled Roe v. Wade
But this system has broken down, and it is particularly broken in Texas’s federal courts. Those courts frequently allow plaintiffs to choose which trial judge will hear their case by filing the lawsuit in a geographic region that has only one federal judge. One hundred percent of all cases filed in Amarillo, Texas, are assigned to Kacsmaryk, for example; a fact that has led legions of religious conservatives to file their cases in Amarillo. Then, once Kacsmaryk gets his hands on these cases, he generally responds with dubiously reasoned opinions attacking abortion, birth control, and LGBTQ people.
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