The state argued it has a legal right to sue because, among other reasons, the FDA\u2019s policy allowing medication abortion to be sent through the mail impinges on the state\u2019s \u201csovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hypocrisy is thick, Flaxman says, since the lower court\u2019s decision didn\u2019t just end the mailing of mifepristone to residents of Louisiana, but to anyone living in any state in the country. \u201cThey\u2019re in court complaining that they have sovereign injury while wholly ignoring that the nationwide relief that they have obtained from the Fifth Circuit fundamentally undermines the interest of other states,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
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