#SupremeCourt#AbortionPill case
Tue’s oral argument is focused on whether to overrule the #FDA & reimpose restrictions on getting #abortion medication. <2 yrs after #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade, the issue of #ReproductiveRights is returning to the high court on Tues as the justices consider whether to limit access to a med used in >60% of US abortions.
The #Biden admin & the manufacturer of #mifepristone are seeking to reverse a lower-court ruling.
The wife of Judge James Ho, a Trump appointee whose ruling helped pave the way for banning mifepristone, took 6 payments from the #christofascist group who brought the suit to court.
"A month ago, a phone call was the only thing the doctor could offer to #women in states with #abortion bans...
Now she can legally mail them pills herself.
...one of the largest #AbortionPill suppliers, Europe-based Aid Access, now allows US medical professionals in certain Democrat-led states that have passed abortion “shield” laws to prescribe & mail pills directly to patients in antiabortion states" #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3K5gXpH
Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming after a judge ruled Thursday that the 1st-in-the-nation law to ban them won't take effect July 1 as planned while a lawsuit proceeds.
While other states have instituted de facto bans on the medication by broadly prohibiting abortion, only Wyoming has specifically banned abortion pills
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House Republicans have advanced a bill that would restrict access to abortion pill mifepristone as part of a quiet effort to attack abortion rights at the federal level.
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Do you want to protect medication abortion? This Monday at 4:30 EST Jodi Jacobson of Healthcare Across Borders joins Laura Packard to talk about abortion care and the war on medication abortion in America, on the latest podcast episode of #CareTalk.
Texas denied abortions to these women when their lives were in danger. Now they're suing the state.
Though speaking out requires them to relive losing their wanted pregnancies, four plaintiffs told The 19th they're doing it because they know they're "not the only ones like this."
Planned Parenthood is calling for the major reform of the federal judiciary less than a year after the fall of#RoeVWade, including expanding the Supreme Court and adding term limits.
#MatthewKacsmaryk's #AbortionPill ruling has been temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court, but the 5th Circuit Court if Appeals is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Wednesday.
Murphy's remarks come after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a case that could force mifepristone off the market nationwide, including in states where abortion is legal.