5th Circuit

The Supreme Court is Considering Whether to Deal Another Big Blow to Abortion

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The state argued it has a legal right to sue because, among other reasons, the FDA’s policy allowing medication abortion to be sent through the mail impinges on the state’s “sovereignty.” The hypocrisy is thick, Flaxman says, since the lower court’s decision didn’t just end the mailing of mifepristone to residents of Louisiana, but to … Read more

Misoprostol Could Be Next

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Although untouched by the Fifth Circuit’s ruling, misoprostol is not necessarily immune to legal attacks. Louisiana’s lawsuit and parallel suits filed by Florida and Missouri argue that the Comstock Act—a dormant, 19th-century anti-obscenity statute that anti-abortion legal strategists have spent years working to resurrect—bars the mailing of any drug used to induce abortion. This reading … Read more

Abortion pills are saving women’s lives. The right is trying to eliminate them – Opinion

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But the state-by-state patchwork of women’s rights remains an untenable reality, and the ferocity of the anti-choice movement’s misogyny has not been abated. The Supreme Court has kicked the can down the road, perhaps hoping to keep the issue’s salience to a minimum ahead of the elections. But this uneasy political settlement over abortion access … Read more

Four Years After Dobbs, Mifepristone Is Existentially Threatened — Again

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The case, Louisiana v. FDA, is just the latest right-wing assault on the abortion drug since Dobbs was handed down. It is indispensable to the true anti-abortion mission, which was never to leave it to the states, but to force all pregnant women in the United States to give birth. Read more at Talking Points … Read more

Court ruling fuels new push to restrict abortion pills by mail

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But the medication in question are not used exclusively for abortion. Doctors routinely prescribe them for miscarriage management, endometriosis, fibroids, complications from Cushing’s disease and other serious reproductive health conditions, where they can prevent infection or reduce severe pain. and Enforcement is unlikely to involve inspecting packages. Instead, it would likely focus on providers, telehealth … Read more

Two companies file appeal to the Supreme Court to restore access to mifepristone – round-up

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Drugmakers file emergency appeal to restore abortion pill access The emergency appeals ask the high court to temporarily restore a federal policy that allows the pills to be prescribed online and delivered by mail, arguing that failing to do so would cause “immediate chaos” and leave patients around the country in limbo. and The decision, … Read more

The 5th Circuit rules patients can only access mifepristone with an in-person doctor visit – round-up

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Appeals court approves sweeping abortion pill restrictions, teeing up SCOTUS showdown The decision, which applies to both states like Louisiana that ban abortion and states that allow the procedure, restores the FDA’s prior policy mandating that patients only obtain the drug in person from a physician. It is arguably the biggest rollback in access to … Read more

While His Admin Delights In The Culture Wars, Trump Tiptoes Around Abortion. At Least For Now.

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Some legal observers theorize that the administration’s unanticipated stance in the case boils down to its unwavering support for executive power, even when it creates odd bedfellows. It doesn’t want its FDA to be hamstrung — including, perhaps, when it gins up its own reason to restrict mifepristone in the future. Others think it’s a gambit … Read more