The Supreme Court's anti-abortion majority is set to consider whether to order a reversal in U.S. drug laws and restrict women from obtaining abortion medication at pharmacies or through the mail. A ruling to restrict the most common method of abortion would limit the rights of women in California and other states where abortion remains legal. "We may have thought we were protected because California is supportive of abortion, but this decision [on abortion pills] will be national in scope,"...
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The case is the most significant abortion question to come before the court since it overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
The case is the most significant abortion question to come before the court since it overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
The case is the most significant abortion question to come before the court since it overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
Abortion access returns to the high court, nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade. This time access to the abortion pill mifepristone hangs in the balance.
Americans overwhelmingly support mifepristone remaining available. And even merely restricting it could reverberate hugely -- at a time when the GOP would rather ignore such issues.
It always seemed farfetched that anti-abortion doctors could argue that they have the right to ask a court to severely restrict a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration simply because they don't want to treat women who might experience complications. Do they even have standing to bring this case? Do they have any proof they have been so harmed or injured that it justifies restricting FDA-approved access to mifepristone, the first in a two-drug regimen for medication abortion?...
The proposed amendment was sold as attempting to protect doctors in medical emergencies, but would have gone much, much further.
The justices’ comments in arguments over FDA actions that eased access to the drug, mifepristone, suggest that
By Bram Sable-Smith and Rachana Pradhan, KFF Health News In early February, abortion rights supporters gathered to change Missouri history at the Pageant — a storied club where rock ’n’ roll revolutionary Chuck Berry often had played: They launched a signature-gathering campaign to put a constitutional amendment to voters this year to legalize abortion in the state. “We have fought long for this moment,” the Rev. Love Holt, the emcee, told the crowd. “Just two years after Missouri made...
Nevada Judge Erika Ballou vindicated pro-lifers’ longtime fears that the Equal Rights Amendment would be used to create ‘rights’ to abortion and more.