New anti-abortion campaign takes aim at EPA drinking water rules
Students for Life of America is pushing the federal agency to include an anti-abortion drug on its list of drinking water contaminants. Read more at Politico
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Texas and Florida sue FDA in latest effort to restrict abortion pill access
In the lawsuit, filed late on Tuesday in federal court in Wichita Falls, Texas, the states’ Republican attorneys general argue that the FDA has failed to thoroughly evaluate the drug’s safety and effectiveness since its initial approval in 2000 and disregarded the risks to the women who take it. Read more at The Guardian
New Texas law aims to stop access to abortion pills
New Texas law allows residents to sue those suspected of providing access to abortion pills Under the new law, which went into effect on Thursday, abortion providers could face penalties of at least $100,000 if they mail pills into Texas. Manufacturers of abortion pills are also eligible to be sued, although women who take abortion … Read more
Republican-led states challenge FDA approval of new generic abortion pill
Three Republican-led states have moved to broaden their lawsuit seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone, aiming to block the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of a new generic version. Read more at Reuters
RFK, Jr. Tylenol attack, plus attack on mifepristone – news round-up
RFK Jr. Finally Gets Around to Bringing His War on Medical Science to Abortion But lawsuits aren’t enough for the increasingly antsy anti-abortion movement: Their allies control the White House, after all. Why not just use the machinery of the administration to restrict mifepristone out of accessibility? Kennedy is finally responding. By leaning on the … Read more
During Hearing RFK Jr. Hints That Access To Mifepristone May Be Cut Back
RFK Jr hints access to key abortion drug could be cut back The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has suggested that Biden-era regulations expanding access to abortion pills could be rolled back because the Biden administration had “twisted the data” behind the pills. Read more at The Guardian RFK Jr. Signals Brewing Attack … Read more
Arkansas AG Threatens to Sue Sites for Providing Info About Abortion Pills
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) sent cease and desist letters on Tuesday to two websites that provide information about abortion pills, demanding they stop “advertising” that medications can be mailed to Arkansas, which has a total abortion ban. The letters came on the same day that Griffin and 15 other Republican AGs called on … Read more
The Threat to Abortion Rights You Haven’t Heard Of
The Comstock Act is a “zombie law”: Though long considered unconstitutional or unenforceable, it was never repealed and, with enough momentum, could be resuscitated and enforced. Interpreted literally, “it could essentially shut down abortion nationwide,” explains Joanne Rosen, JD, MA, a practice professor in Health Policy and Management and an expert in reproductive law. Read more … Read more
Telehealth abortion access could be challenged nationwide in new lawsuit
A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care. Read more at 19th News
Abortion opponents are coming for mifepristone using what medical experts call “junk science”
“There’s a proliferation of anti-abortion propaganda right now. I think it is a coordinated attack on mifepristone,” said Ushma Upadhyay, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco who studies medication abortion. Read more at 19th News