No, your drinking water isn’t contaminated by abortion pills
Anti-abortion advocates, including Republican lawmakers and state officials, want the EPA to review mifepristone as a water contaminant. Read more at 19th News
Anti-abortion advocates, including Republican lawmakers and state officials, want the EPA to review mifepristone as a water contaminant. Read more at 19th News
In an interview Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), said he wanted to know whether conservatives could count on Blanche to settle multiple lawsuits over mifepristone — a pill used in more than two-thirds of abortions — and clear the way for potential restrictions on the medication. Read more at Politico
Both the White House and the Justice Department held closed-door meetings this month with anti-abortion activists who want the president to use executive power more aggressively to cut off access to the procedure. … Students for Life emerged from its own meeting with DOJ officials optimistic, and sent a video message to its followers that … Read more
Across the country, abortion bans appear to have made it harder for people experiencing miscarriages to receive appropriate treatment — or even receive treatment at all — a new study suggests. Read more at 19th News
Abortion providers and advocates are making plans for future disruptions to reproductive care after the US supreme court temporarily continued nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone on Thursday while several legal challenges wind their way through the lower courts. Read more at The Guardian
Last week, as they awaited word from the high court about the fate of telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists secured a closed-door meeting with Justice Department officials. There, they pushed the agency to revive a long dormant policy that could cut off virtually all access to both mifepristone and misoprostol — an 1800s-era anti-vice law known … Read more
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
At a hearing of the Senate Health Committee he chairs, Cassidy said Kennedy should have withdrawn policies adopted under President Joe Biden that allowed people seeking to end their pregnancies to get pills prescribed by telehealth and have them shipped through the mail. That has made it easier for people to have abortions in states, … Read more