The Abortion Pill Legal Standoff Endangers Access to All Drugs
55 years ago

The Abortion Pill Legal Standoff Endangers Access to All Drugs

Wired  

The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available in the US for now—but its long-term fate is uncertain as a bitter legal battle unfolds. A federal appeals court ruled yesterday in favor of keeping the drug on the market but rolled back changes the US Food and Drug Administration has made in recent years to expand access to it. The order, issued by the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, partly overruled last week’s decision by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas invalidating the FDA’s approval of the pill in 2000. The appeals court said too much time had passed since the drug’s approval to bring a lawsuit against the FDA for authorizing mifepristone. “Even though this softens the blow of Judge Kacsmaryk’s ruling, it is just as problematic and concerning,” says David Cohen, a professor of law at Drexel University, referring to the restrictions that the appeals court placed on the pill.

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Opinion: What antiabortion activists want next
1 week, 2 days ago

Opinion: What antiabortion activists want next

LA Times  

Anti-abortion activists pray as they participate in a “#BanChemicalAbortions” protest outside the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington in 2022. The state of Texas filed a major lawsuit on Dec. 12 against a New York doctor who mailed abortion pills to a Collin County, Texas, woman, arguing that the doctor was practicing medicine without a Texas license and …

New York doctor sued for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine
1 month ago

New York doctor sued for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against …

Texas' Abortion Pill Lawsuit Against New York Doctor Marks New Challenge To Interstate Telemedicine
Top News
1 month ago

Texas' Abortion Pill Lawsuit Against New York Doctor Marks New Challenge To Interstate Telemedicine

Huff Post  

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned. “Will doctors be more afraid to mail pills into Texas, even if they might be protected by shield laws …

Trump Claims He’s Committed To Keeping Abortion Pills Accessible
1 month ago

Trump Claims He’s Committed To Keeping Abortion Pills Accessible

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Donald Trump gave his clearest answer to date about the future of abortion pills under his administration in a new interview with Time magazine. Later, when pressed about his answer, Trump said it’s “unlikely, very unlikely” that his FDA would strip access to abortion pills. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments on abortion pills suggest he may be breaking …

California Rolls Out More Abortion Protections Ahead Of Trump's Return
1 month, 1 week ago

California Rolls Out More Abortion Protections Ahead Of Trump's Return

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In anticipation of more hostility toward abortion under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, California lawmakers announced two new pieces of legislation Monday aimed at protecting medication abortion and punishing local governments that interfere with access to reproductive health care. California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a news conference in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San …

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including its explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including its explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

LA Times  

Mifepristone, a medication used in combination to end a pregnancy, was banned under a law struck down by a state judge in Wyoming. A state judge this week struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy. One Wyoming law that Owens said violated women’s rights under the state …

Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike
2 months ago

Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike

The Independent  

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Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike
2 months, 1 week ago

Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike

LA Times  

Anti-abortion activists say there is still work to be done to further restrict access to abortion when President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House next year. They point to the federal guidance that the administration of President Biden released around emergency abortions, requiring that hospitals provide them for women whose health or life is at risk, and its easing …

The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide
55 years ago

The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide

Slate  

On Tuesday, many Americans simultaneously voted to protect abortion rights and elect Donald Trump president. Trump’s second administration is all but guaranteed to impose major federal restrictions on abortion access. And although the drug is generally banned in states that prohibit abortion, blue states have set up “shield laws” that allow their providers to prescribe and mail it to red-state …

Why Record Numbers of People Who Aren’t Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Medication
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Record Numbers of People Who Aren’t Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Medication

Slate  

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, a growing number of people in the United States are buying abortion pills and keeping them on hand just in case they need them in the future. Some states have been removing the “known pregnancy” requirements since Dobbs, potentially making it easier to prosecute advance provision, missed period pills, and other …

Conservative states kick off new fight to limit access to abortion pill mifepristone despite Supreme Court decision
3 months ago

Conservative states kick off new fight to limit access to abortion pill mifepristone despite Supreme Court decision

CNN  

CNN — Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out a high-profile challenge to the abortion drug mifepristone, and as abortion access is a major flashpoint in the presidential election, three conservative states are following through on a promise to bring the issue back to the forefront with a new lawsuit. The suit may thrust the issue of mifepristone access …

Two Georgia deaths are tied to abortion restrictions. Experts say abortion pills they took are safe
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Two Georgia deaths are tied to abortion restrictions. Experts say abortion pills they took are safe

Associated Press  

Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to speak about abortion Friday in Georgia, where two women’s deaths have been tied to a state law that mostly bans the procedure after roughly six weeks. Abortion opponents say the more lax restrictions resulted in many more “emergency complications.” But that argument lumps together women experiencing a range of issues with mifepristone — …

Two Georgia deaths are tied to abortion restrictions. Experts say abortion pills they took are safe
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Two Georgia deaths are tied to abortion restrictions. Experts say abortion pills they took are safe

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Abortion opponents say the more lax restrictions resulted in …

'Pure gibberish': Critics slam Trump’s 'nonsensical double-speak' answer on abortion drug
5 months, 1 week ago

'Pure gibberish': Critics slam Trump’s 'nonsensical double-speak' answer on abortion drug

Raw Story  

Donald Trump appeared to be unfamiliar with the widely-used and extremely safe abortion drug Mifepristone when asked a question about it by a reporter Thursday afternoon at his Mar-a-Lago press conference. On Thursday, asked if he would “direct your FDA, for example, to revoke access to Mifepristone?” Trump interrupted the reporter to provide an answer. There are many things on …

Iowa now bans most abortions after about 6 weeks, before many women know they’re pregnant
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Iowa now bans most abortions after about 6 weeks, before many women know they’re pregnant

LA Times  

Tablets of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions, sit on a counter in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, Iowa. Iowa’s strict abortion law went into effect Monday, immediately prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. “I’m glad that the Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the will of the people …

Editorial: Don’t be fooled by Trump’s and Republicans’ abortion myths
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Don’t be fooled by Trump’s and Republicans’ abortion myths

LA Times  

Community members gather to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe vs. Wade and Kentucky’s trigger law to ban abortion at Circus Square Park in Bowling Green, Ky., in June 2022. In California, abortion is legal up to the point of the fetus’ viability to survive outside the uterus, which is around 24-25 weeks — or later if the …

It’s been two years since Roe v Wade was overturned. Here’s how far we’ve gone back
6 months, 3 weeks ago

It’s been two years since Roe v Wade was overturned. Here’s how far we’ve gone back

The Independent  

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Opinion: Abortion foes lost Round One on mifepristone. Here’s how their fight continues
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Abortion foes lost Round One on mifepristone. Here’s how their fight continues

LA Times  

The Supreme Court’s mifepristone decision on June 13 put a stop to one challenge to the drug used in more than half of all abortions in the United States. The answer the court gave the Alliance doctors would seem to apply: “A plaintiff’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue.” Kansas’ case …

Opinion: The Abortion Pill’s Supreme Court ‘Victory’ Isn't What It Seems
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Opinion: The Abortion Pill’s Supreme Court ‘Victory’ Isn't What It Seems

Huff Post  

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its unanimous decision in Alliance v. FDA last week, it handed down a little victory for reproductive freedom by tossing a suit brought by far-right extremists who hoped to entirely block federal approval of mifepristone. We are glad the Supreme Court did not let the Alliance plaintiffs get in the way of that access, …

The SCOTUS abortion pill case taught women how to access mifepristone.
6 months, 4 weeks ago

The SCOTUS abortion pill case taught women how to access mifepristone.

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. “The SCOTUS case raised awareness of abortion pills and the pills-by-mail option,” said Elisa Wells, co-founder of Plan C, which maintains a website providing a comprehensive guide for obtaining abortion pills through telehealth, community networks, and online pill vendors in all 50 states. …

The Supreme Court’s ruling on mifepristone isn’t the last word on the abortion pill
7 months ago

The Supreme Court’s ruling on mifepristone isn’t the last word on the abortion pill

Associated Press  

The Supreme Court ‘s ruling on technical grounds Thursday keeps the abortion pill mifepristone available in the U.S. for now, but it won’t be the last word on the issue, and the unanimous opinion offers some clues for how abortion opponents can keep trying to deny it to women nationwide. “The decision is good that the doctors don’t have standing,” …

US Supreme Court maintains access to the abortion pill mifepristone
7 months ago

US Supreme Court maintains access to the abortion pill mifepristone

Hindustan Times  

The United States Supreme Court has rejected a bid to restrict access to a medication used in abortions, thereby ending abortion opponents' attempts to limit access to the operation, reported Al Jazeera. The US Supreme Court preserved full access to a widely used abortion pill in a case that carried major stakes for reproductive rights and election-year politics. In 2022, …

Activists Are Still Worried After the Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling
7 months ago

Activists Are Still Worried After the Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling

Bloomberg  

Hi, it’s Fiona and Ella in New York. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled on the first major case on reproductive rights since it overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. On Thursday, the Supreme Court preserved broad access to the abortion pill. Anti-abortion groups — represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group that helped drive the effort to …

US Supreme Court unanimously rejects bid to restrict abortion pill access
7 months ago

US Supreme Court unanimously rejects bid to restrict abortion pill access

ABC  

In short: The US Supreme Court has rejected a bid to limit access to a common abortion pill. The US Supreme Court has rejected a bid by an anti-abortion group that included doctors to restrict access to the abortion pill. The justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food and Drug Administration's approval …

US Supreme Court unanimously rejects bid to restrict access to widely-used abortion poll
7 months ago

US Supreme Court unanimously rejects bid to restrict access to widely-used abortion poll

India TV News  

Washington: The US Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, rejected a bid on Thursday by anti-abortion groups and doctors to restrict access to the widely-used abortion pill mifepristone, handing a victory to President Joe Biden's administration and abortion activists in their efforts to preserve broad access to the drug, two years after its controversial decision to end the recognition of …

Supreme Court abortion pill ruling: The 9-0 decision isn't what it seems.
7 months ago

Supreme Court abortion pill ruling: The 9-0 decision isn't what it seems.

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. “The plaintiffs have sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective abortion and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone,” wrote Kavanaugh. “But under Article III of the Constitution, those kinds of objections alone do not establish a justiciable case or controversy in …

Supreme Court throws out challenge to key abortion pill mifepristone
7 months ago

Supreme Court throws out challenge to key abortion pill mifepristone

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A ruling on Thursday found that the group …

Abortion pill access is unchanged after the Supreme Court’s decision. Here’s what you need to know
7 months ago

Abortion pill access is unchanged after the Supreme Court’s decision. Here’s what you need to know

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Access to the abortion pill mifepristone will not change after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected an effort Thursday by anti-abortion groups to roll back its availability, a win for abortion rights supporters and millions of women in states where abortion is legal. Despite the ruling, women’s access to mifepristone still largely depends on a patchwork of state …

Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone
7 months ago

Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The nine justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food …

Challenge to abortion drug rejected by U.S. Supreme Court
7 months ago

Challenge to abortion drug rejected by U.S. Supreme Court

Salon  

On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected a challenged restricting access to mifepristone, the first drug used in a medication abortion. The court’s decision in the case U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine ruled against Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, an organization of anti-abortion activists backed by the Christian right-wing lobbying group Alliance Defending Freedom, who brought the …

Supreme Court won’t restrict access to abortion pill
7 months ago

Supreme Court won’t restrict access to abortion pill

Politico  

Thursday’s decision shifts the spotlight to conservatives’ other strategies to limit access to the drug, such as lobbying state legislators to pass laws prohibiting its use and paving the way for new restrictions in a potential second Trump administration. The high court’s decision does not prevent future administrations from rolling back access to mifepristone; it merely holds that anti-abortion doctors …

Opinion: What a relief. The Supreme Court did the right thing on mifepristone
7 months ago

Opinion: What a relief. The Supreme Court did the right thing on mifepristone

LA Times  

The same Supreme Court that overruled Roe vs. Wade two years ago on Thursday followed well-established constitutional principles to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to restrict the availability of mifepristone, a drug used to medically induce abortions. A conservative panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit said that Kacsmaryk erred in overturning the FDA’s 2000 approval …

Column: The abortion pill is safe. Is your uterus?
7 months ago

Column: The abortion pill is safe. Is your uterus?

LA Times  

Demonstrators march near the Texas state Capitol in Austin following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Alito hinted at this concept in the Dobbs ruling, which knocked out Roe vs. Wade, when he referred to an embryo as an “unborn human being.” In Alabama, we saw this take greater life recently when state Supreme Court judges ruled …

Editorial: Supreme Court keeps medication abortion safe — for now
7 months ago

Editorial: Supreme Court keeps medication abortion safe — for now

LA Times  

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a challenge to mifepristone, one of the two pharmaceuticals used for medication abortion. The Supreme Court did the right thing Thursday by unanimously ruling against a challenge to the safety of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in medication abortions. Of course, this wasn’t the court protecting access to abortion, which it …

Abortion providers back to ‘business as usual’ after high court's mifepristone ruling
7 months ago

Abortion providers back to ‘business as usual’ after high court's mifepristone ruling

NPR  

Abortion providers back to ‘business as usual’ after high court's mifepristone ruling toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Some abortion providers were stockpiling mifepristone. “The Supreme Court has not made it more difficult than it already is for people to get access to abortion pills.” Jacobson, who works for Aid Access, one of the largest abortion-by-mail organizations that sends pills to …

US Supreme Court upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone
7 months ago

US Supreme Court upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone

Al Jazeera  

The United States Supreme Court has rejected a bid to curb access to a drug used in abortions, ending an attempt by abortion opponents to limit access to the procedure. In a 9-0 ruling on Thursday, the justices overturned a lower court’s decision last year to limit access to the drug mifepristone, used in more than half of abortions in …

What to Know About the Abortion Pill After the Supreme Court Ruling
7 months ago

What to Know About the Abortion Pill After the Supreme Court Ruling

Bloomberg  

The US Supreme Court on June 13 preserved the current level of access to medication abortion, the most common method of terminating a pregnancy in the country. The conservative-majority court unanimously ruled that anti-abortion doctors and organizations that sued in an attempt to overrule the way the Food and Drug Administration regulates the abortion pill mifepristone, which is commonly available …

Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill accessibility
7 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill accessibility

NPR  

Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill accessibility The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills. She says that future challenges could come from conservative states that could reasonably argue that the FDA's accessibility regulations render restrictive state abortion laws moot. Mary Zeigler, a law professor at UC …

Louisiana governor signs bill making two abortion drugs controlled dangerous substances
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Louisiana governor signs bill making two abortion drugs controlled dangerous substances

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Louisiana’s Republican governor Jeff …

Louisiana lawmakers vote to restrict abortion pill
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Louisiana lawmakers vote to restrict abortion pill

Raw Story  

Republican lawmakers in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would criminalize possession of abortion pills without a prescription. The bill comes as abortion rights are being hotly debated ahead of November's presidential election pitting Democratic incumbent Joe Biden against likely Republican challenger Donald Trump. "This is a direct result of Trump overturning …

Louisiana lawmakers OK bill classifying abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Louisiana lawmakers OK bill classifying abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances

LA Times  

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances in Louisiana under a first-of-its-kind bill that received final legislative passage Thursday and is expected to be signed into law by the governor. Supporters of the …

Louisiana lawmakers advance bill to reclassify abortion drugs, worrying doctors
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Louisiana lawmakers advance bill to reclassify abortion drugs, worrying doctors

Associated Press  

— Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill that would make it a crime to possess two abortion-inducing drugs without a prescription, a move that doctors fear could prevent them from adequately treating their patients in a timely manner. More than 200 doctors signed a letter to lawmakers saying the measure could produce a “barrier to physicians’ ease of prescribing …

Louisiana lawmakers advance bill to reclassify abortion drugs, worrying doctors
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Louisiana lawmakers advance bill to reclassify abortion drugs, worrying doctors

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday advanced …

Some North Carolina abortion pill restrictions are unlawful, federal judge says
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Some North Carolina abortion pill restrictions are unlawful, federal judge says

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Some of North Carolina government’s restrictions on dispensing abortion pills, such as requiring that doctors to prescribe and provide the drug to the patient in person, are unlawful because they frustrate the goal of Congress to use federal regulators to ensure the drug is distributed safely, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Yet some “statutory requirements of the …

Abortion-pill foes get a chilly reception at the Supreme Court
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Abortion-pill foes get a chilly reception at the Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS were thrilled when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. With her husband, Senator Josh Hawley, watching from the public gallery, she told the justices that the FDA’s policy on mifepristone left her clients facing a “Hobson’s choice”. “Shouldn’t somebody be able to challenge that in court?” That’s quite unlikely, replied Elizabeth Prelogar, the solicitor-general who ably defended …

What the Supreme Court’s abortion pill case could mean for California
9 months, 2 weeks ago

What the Supreme Court’s abortion pill case could mean for California

LA Times  

An abortion rights demonstrator’s sign is posted outside the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2023. “I’m concerned that people don’t realize how important telehealth is — it’s a major pillar in the abortion care landscape,” said professor Ushma Upadhyay of UC San Francisco, a reproductive healthcare expert. “Abortion care via mail is now the most viable form of access for …

Supreme Court restricting mifepristone would be a "slippery slope" for future drugs
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court restricting mifepristone would be a "slippery slope" for future drugs

Salon  

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could restrict access to mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions, nationwide. “Since its approval over two decades ago, mifepristone has been used by more than 5 million people in the U.S. to end pregnancies through abortion or to support miscarriage care.” McGill Johnson said “we …

Editorial: On medication abortion, the Supreme Court may actually do the right thing
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: On medication abortion, the Supreme Court may actually do the right thing

LA Times  

Abortion-rights activists rally Tuesday outside the Supreme Court. 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. Last year, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk …

5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court
9 months, 2 weeks ago

5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have far-reaching implications for millions of American women and for scores of drugs regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Chief Justice John Roberts “Why can’t the court specify that this relief runs to precisely …

The Current Attack on Abortion Pills Will Fail. The Next One Will Be So Much Worse.
55 years ago

The Current Attack on Abortion Pills Will Fail. The Next One Will Be So Much Worse.

Slate  

There are always a couple of tells when the most conservative Supreme Court in more than a century finds itself adjudicating a truly mortifying and meritless case. This case is about a handful of physicians seeking to wield their “conscience objections” to abortion as a cudgel against everyone’s access to safe reproductive care throughout the country. As Justice Ketanji Brown …

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