Deborah No, The Appeals Court Didn’t Save Us From Insane Decision Blocking Abortion Pill The Fifth Circuit panel broke from Kacsmaryk on rejecting the 2000 FDA approval, saying that the six-year statute of limitations to challenge that agency action has passed (though without much conviction, saying that the anti-abortion plaintiffs may win on that topic at … Read more
Mark my words: Contraception is the next front in the war on women. And we can’t say we haven’t been warned. Read more at the Los Angeles Times
GOP largely silent on Texas ruling with party in a bind on abortion The Texas decision, which the Justice Department has appealed, could have far-reaching implications for access to abortion nationwide, as well as the authority of the entire FDA. It could restrict access to one of the two FDA-approved abortion drugs in every state, … Read more
A group of 69 Republican members of Congress filed a brief urging an appeals court to uphold the decision of a federal judge in Texas last week that would halt the prescription of a widely used abortion pill, after over 200 congressional Democrats lobbied for a reversal of the ruling. Read more at The Hill
Between July and December 2022, more than 66,500 people reported being unable to receive an abortion in their home state. Broken down, nearly 44,000 of those unable to get abortion care in their state of residence couldn’t get access because their home state had banned the procedure, and another 22,680 were blocked by their home … Read more
Pence, whose abortion views are informed by his religious faith, doubled down in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s reversal, saying “we must not rest” until abortion is outlawed entirely across the country. The former vice president has urged other Republicans to stake out similarly extreme positions on banning abortion access. Read more at Huffpost … Read more
Judge’s abortion pill decision embraces extreme language and ideology of anti-abortion movement, experts say In interviews, several legal and medical experts said Kacsmaryk’s decision was unprecedented and clearly ideological. His language and reasoning, they said, closely mirrored arguments and concepts put forward by the anti-abortion movement — at the expense of scientific consensus in some … Read more
I called Ziegler today, after the Justice Department’s appeal, to get her take on what happens next. She told me that if the conflicting mifepristone rulings make their way to the Supreme Court, which they’re likely to do, it’s worth noting that the Texas decision that would block the abortion medication was “designed to appeal … Read more
The governor’s support may seem politically risky, especially after Tuesday’s Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. But he’s been backing restrictive abortion policy for years. Read more at Politico
Data released last fall by the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes also shows that more than 2.2 million women of childbearing age across 1,119 US counties are living in “maternity care deserts,” meaning their counties have no hospitals offering obstetric care, no birth centers and no obstetric providers. Read more at CNN … Read more
