The hopes of some activists go further. Their ultimate aim in reviving the Comstock Act is to use it to shut down every abortion facility “in all 50 states,” Mark Lee Dickson, a Texas pastor and anti-abortion advocate, told me. Taken literally, Comstock could be applied to prevent the transport of all supplies related to … Read more
Even the court’s decision on whether to take up the appeals is of practical importance because if the justices decide not to intervene in the ongoing litigation, an appeals court ruling that limited the availability of the drug by mail would go into effect. Read more at NBC News
“To navigate this patchwork of laws takes some delicacy,” said Droz Tragos. “And depending on where you live, depending on your identity, depending on the community that you’re in, people have different layers of safety, concern and risk. So everyone has to navigate this knowing their own circumstances.” Still, she and Plan C organizers remain … Read more
In the past, trying to prove someone had taken abortion pills was tricky. It was impossible to tell whether a woman had experienced a miscarriage or had a medical abortion: the symptoms are the same and the technology didn’t exist to find evidence mifepristone and misoprostol had been ingested. Now, however, a government intent on … Read more
The looming case is expected to be the most sweeping abortion issue the high court examines since overturning Roe v. Wade, with implications that extend far beyond reproductive health and could impact how a vast array of drugs are approved and regulated. Read more at Politico
If lower court rulings were left in place, they “would impose grave harms on the government, mifepristone’s sponsors, women seeking medication abortions, and the public,” Prelogar added. Among other things, access to the pill by mail — which the FDA formally approved in 2021 — would be curtailed. Read more at NBC News
While Texas can ban mifepristone, by what authority can it restrict its order and transportation through the U.S. Postal Service without challenging the way telemedicine works? The looming question for legislators: Is banning a single medication worth jeopardizing the convenient and cost-effective health care telemedicine provides for millions of Americans? Read more at The Hill … Read more
