After the Supreme Court decided that the doctors didn’t have standing to sue, the AGs amended their complaint in October 2024, adding the vile argument that telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone harmed the states because these prescriptions allow more teens to end unwanted pregnancies. In their eyes, state governments need to be able to force births to prevent “potentially ‘losing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations are’ reduced.”The revived lawsuit, now in the hands of these Republican AGs, asks the FDA to roll back a host of mifepristone label updates that, among other things, allow clinicians to prescribe mifepristone to minors, and to provide care remotely and through 10 weeks of pregnancy. These proposed changes would have a huge impact on the availability of abortion care, since one in four U.S. abortions were done with pills via telehealth as of the end of last year. Any federal restrictions on mifepristone would apply nationwide, even in states that have passed constitutional protections for abortion access.
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