US appeals court upholds restrictions on abortion pill access<\/p>\n
A US appeals court ruled on Wednesday to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, returning to regulations that were in place in several years ago, but will not be taking the medication off the market.<\/p>\n
Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Appeals court upholds some restrictions on abortion pill access, but drug will remain available for now<\/p>\n In their ruling Wednesday, the three-judge panel, comprised of two Trump appointees and one George W. Bush appointee, found that the groups and doctors that sued waited too long to challenge the original 2000 approval of mifepristone, but the post-2016 ways the FDA made the pill easier to get should be put on hold because those moves “were taken without sufficient consideration of the effects those changes would have on patients.”<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Abortion pill ruling sets up Supreme Court showdown<\/p>\n \u201cThe fate of women\u2019s access to this lifesaving drug is now back in the hands of the Supreme Court,\u201d said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Wednesday, \u201ca terrifying thought for those of us who don\u2019t trust the right-wing justices who overturned Roe and who claimed abortion is an issue to be left to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n 5th Circuit Rejects Challenge To Abortion Pill\u2019s Approval, But Upholds Some Restrictions<\/p>\n The ruling is also replete with histrionic messaging about the danger of mifepristone, talking points that have been a ubiquitous and long-lived tactic of the anti-abortion movement and have resulted in restrictions that major medical groups have long critiqued as based in politics and not medical necessity.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n Abortion pills: what does the latest mifepristone ruling mean?<\/p>\n Mifepristone remains legal for now but federal appeals court ruled to limit access, creating \u2018chaos and confusion\u2019<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US appeals court upholds restrictions on abortion pill access A US appeals court ruled on Wednesday to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, returning to regulations that were in place in several years ago, but will not be taking the medication off the market. Read more at The Guardian Appeals court upholds some restrictions … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,172,121,107,168],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-5th-circuit","tag-abortion-bans","tag-abortion-misinformation","tag-abortion-pills","tag-anti-abortion-judges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}