Justices were skeptical of abortion pills arguments. Anti-abortion groups have backup plans.
Supreme Court case is one of many tools elected officials and activists are using to try to cut off access to the drugs. Read more at Politico
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Supreme Court skepticism of 5th Circuit’s mifepristone ban case, and takeaways from the hearing
Justices appear skeptical of call to restrict abortion pill Read more at Politico US supreme court hearing not a success for anti-abortion doctors, experts say Justices appear unconvinced by anti-abortion doctors’ standing to sue during hearing over access to FDA-approved pill mifepristone Read more at The Guardian Even the Supreme Court seems sick of its … Read more
The Supreme Court will hear arguments for FDA v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26
What’s at stake in the Supreme Court mifepristone case Legal scholars like Ziegler also note that there’s an even bigger way that this case could affect everyone in the country. “You have, lurking in the background, the possibility that the Comstock Act is going to be reinvented as an abortion ban,” she says. Read more … Read more
Ramifications if the Supreme Court unwinds protections for mifpristone
‘Cruel’: the supreme court could send one-time abortion deserts like Hawaii back in time If the supreme court rewinds these measures, many people will likely have to go to much greater lengths to end their pregnancies. The availability of abortion in the US would plummet, abortion providers and their supporters told the Guardian – even … Read more
Pharmaceutical companies worry the Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling could have a wider effect on drugs and research
A Supreme Court case over whether to tighten restrictions on mifepristone – one of two drugs used in the medication abortion regimen – could destabilize the American pharmaceutical industry, deterring companies from developing new drugs and even inspiring copycat lawsuits intended to revoke authorization of other politically contentious medications. Read more at 19th News
How The Far Right Engineered An Assault On Abortion Access, Even In Blue States
“They’re not legitimate medical groups sounding an alarm. They’re ideological organizations, basically registering a website and using it to roll back reproductive rights,” Caroline Ciccone, president of the watchdog group Accountable.Us, said Thursday. “Basically, it’s a contrived coalition of extremist groups.” Read more at HuffPost
How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court
Adkins’ concerns go to the heart of a problem that has bedeviled scientists for at least a decade: the judicial system’s repeated adoption of poor-quality evidence to justify litigation and legislation to restrict abortion. Often that evidence is produced by the anti-abortion movement itself. Read more at The Guardian
Abortion pill restrictions would be ‘damaging for women,’ Biden admin tells Supreme Court
The appeals court ruling under review “threatens to destabilize the pharmaceutical industry, which relies both on FDA’s ability to make predictive judgments and on courts not second-guessing those scientific judgments,” the lawyers wrote. Read more at NBC News
Doctors face ‘a perpetual rollercoaster’ as abortion returns to the Supreme Court
Doctors across the country told The 19th that they have struggled to stay on top of the latest developments in abortion lawsuits since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned federal abortion protections. That confusion, some said, could stop physicians even from providing legal pregnancy-related health care. Read more … Read more
How the Supreme Court could restrict access to abortion pills
Whatever the court decides could have sweeping ramifications. While the pills will likely stay on the market, there could be some significant changes to access, even in states where abortion remains legal and protected. Read more at The Hill