Florida’s law not only bans abortion after six weeks but also bans abortion by telemedicine and requires any medication abortion to be dispensed in person, which effectively outlaws mail orders of the pills. (Researchers have affirmed there is no medical need for abortion pills to be administered in the physical presence of a health care … Read more
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
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
What is the Comstock Act of 1873 and how is it tied to abortion pill case? The Comstock Act is a set of federal laws passed by Congress in 1873. It made it illegal to send “obscene, lewd or lascivious,” “immoral” or “indecent” materials through mail, including drugs that induce abortions and contraception. Read more … Read more
“If Trump wins the election, you’ll see Ho on the short list of nominees to the supreme court,” he said. “He is obviously behaving in a way that makes him a very prominent candidate in a Republican administration.” Read more at The Guardian
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
‘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
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
“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
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
