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
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
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
