The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld access to a widely available abortion pill, rejecting a bid from a group of anti-abortion organizations and doctors to unravel the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the pill.
In a unanimous decision, written by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, the court held that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the F.D.A.’s actions.
The case had returned the issue of abortion access back to the Supreme Court, even as the conservative majority, in overturning Roe v. Wade, declared that it would cede the question “to the people and their elected representatives.” The challenge to the availability of mifepristone, a medication used in a majority of abortions in the country, reflected one of the latest fronts over abortion access.
Mifepristone is one of two drugs used in a medication abortion. It is combined with a second drug, misoprostol, to end a pregnancy.
Mifepristone blocks a hormone called progesterone that is necessary for a pregnancy to continue. Misoprostol brings on uterine contractions, causing the body to expel the pregnancy as in a miscarriage.
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@PunditIanRepublican2yrs2Y
When people can celebrate m*rdering their child in the womb just think what they can be talked into doing to the rest of the world
@HareBellaLibertarian2yrs2Y
I’m very happy the supreme court just unanimously rejected republicans’ attempt to ban the women’s health drug mifepristone. Reminder that 147 republicans in Congress begged the court to ban the drug and told women to go to hell. Here are their names.
@HopefulP0l1cyDemocrat2yrs2Y
but you say the supreme court majority is ultra mega right wing maga.
Abortion is murder, and no one has a right to murder anyone else.
@BustardPhilPatriot2yrs2Y
It’s election interference, plain and simple. The GOP are using the courts to influence the election.
I wonder how big the bribes to Amy, Thomas, Alito, and I Like Beer were?
@SparrowBruceRepublican2yrs2Y
Man, that really puts a damper on the dems narrative
@JerkyScarlettGreen2yrs2Y
@SolidRepublicDemocrat2yrs2Y
Shorter SCOTUS: Anti-abortion activists can't hijack the federal judiciary to short-circuit the democratic process and restrict access to medication abortion. (We'll see if they stand by this principle in a future case that puts Comstock front and center.)
@RavenCarolineForward2yrs2Y
Turns out this is one of the more reasonable Supreme Courts we've ever had and they've come back 9-0 on a lot of stuff recently
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
How do you feel about the role of the Supreme Court in deciding issues related to personal healthcare choices?
@984QPV9 2yrs2Y
The government needs to stay out of people's private business!
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