Supreme Court temporarily extends women’s access to a widely used abortion pill
*** federal appeals court is saying that the abortion pill mifepristone cannot be sent by mail and can only be distributed through in-person clinics. Now this decision is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court, but at least for now, Friday’s decision is expected to remain in effect across the country. As the legal battle continues to play out, the three judge panel siding with Louisiana’s argument in this case that allowing mifepristone by mail cancels Louisiana’s ban on medical abortions and undermines its policy that every unborn child is *** human being from the moment of conception. The president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, on the other hand, counters this quote, that this is yet another attack on abortion that is rooted in politics, they say, not science, adding it will make it harder for everyone everywhere to get an abortion. Surveys have found that *** majority of abortions in the US are provided via pill, and about 1 in 4 nationals. are prescribed via telehealth, *** practice first authorized during the COVID pandemic under the Biden administration. Friday’s decision overrules that FDA regulation as under the Trump administration, the FDA has said that it is going to conduct *** new review of mifepristone safety. Reporting in Washington, I’m Jackie DeFusco.
The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.Justice Samuel Alito’s order Monday allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. It prevents restrictions on mifepristone imposed by a federal appeals court from taking effect for the time being.The court is dealing with its latest abortion controversy four years after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.
Justice Samuel Alito’s order Monday allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. It prevents restrictions on mifepristone imposed by a federal appeals court from taking effect for the time being.
The court is dealing with its latest abortion controversy four years after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.
This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
