While Texas can ban mifepristone, by what authority can it restrict its order and transportation through the U.S. Postal Service without challenging the way telemedicine works? The looming question for legislators: Is banning a single medication worth jeopardizing the convenient and cost-effective health care telemedicine provides for millions of Americans? Read more at The Hill … Read more
Cameron has consistently used his office to oppose abortion access beyond Kentucky’s borders. He, along with fellow Republican attorneys general, led a brief supporting a waiting period requirement in Tennessee in 2021 and signed onto amicus briefs supporting Mississippi’s case in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2021, a six-week ban in South Carolina … Read more
US appeals court upholds restrictions on abortion pill access A US appeals court ruled on Wednesday to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, returning to regulations that were in place in several years ago, but will not be taking the medication off the market. Read more at The Guardian Appeals court upholds some restrictions … Read more
A Republican-backed spending bill threatens to end national access to mail-order abortion pills and cut billions from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) that provides low-income families with food benefits. Read more at The Guardian
“In restrictive states like mine,” Bush said, “medication abortion quite literally saves lives. Forced birth can be deadly. Every person should be able to decide for themselves whether to carry a pregnancy to term or to seek abortion care.” Read more at The Hill
It’s been nearly one year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion via the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health decision. In the months since, abortion access has been mostly banned in 14 states, stringent gestational limits have been put in place in several others, and the approval … Read more
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday said “everything is on the table” if the Supreme Court decides to outlaw the abortion drug mifepristone, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and warned Republicans who are moving toward restricting reproductive rights that they are “playing with fire.” Read more at Huffpost … Read more
The plaintiffs in this case are questioning the FDA’s scientific process for evaluating the benefits of drugs. According to the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, if the appeals court rules in favor of the plaintiffs, its effects will extend beyond abortion access: A constant barrage of legal challenges to federal approval could discourage drugmakers from bringing … Read more
Federal judges seem open to restricting access to mifepristone abortion pill A case like this is without precedent and, former FDA commissioners have warned in court-submitted briefs, could severely impair the agency. Pharmaceutical companies have also suggested that revoking mifepristone’s approval could discourage them from bringing new drugs to market. Read more at 19th News … Read more
The letter asks Steven H. Collis, the company’s president and CEO, to provide “the full list of states and jurisdictions” where the company intends not to distribute Mifeprex and “clearly outline the determination process and the rationale used to develop that list.” Read more at 19th News
