“If the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and other plaintiffs lack standing, why did the court take the case in the first place, and why did it take so long (three months) to figure out this obvious legal standard?” — Richard Dasheiff, M.D., Plano, Texas Hi Richard, Both the trial and the appeals courts in the […]
Almost two years exactly since the right to an abortion was upended, the United States Supreme Court just issued a unanimous ruling that protects access to the abortion medication drug mifepristone. It’s a shockingly good decision from the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority. This is incredibly important for folks seeking abortions – since […]
The Supreme Court voted unanimously to protect access to mifepristone, one of two drugs used in the majority of medication abortions, on Thursday. Access to mifepristone has been on shaky ground since Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that protected access abortion in the United States, was overturned in 2022. According to the Guttmacher […]
Mifepristone will soon be available (with a prescription) at some CVS and Walgreens pharmacies. (Getty Images) Mifepristone, a drug that’s typically used in combination with another drug called misoprostol in medication abortions, has been under fire ever since Roe v. Wade, which protected the right to abortion in the United States, was overturned in 2022. […]
WASHINGTON − It was an unscripted jab. During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address this month, he departed from his prepared remarks on the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion to directly address the justices sitting in the front row of the House chamber. First, Biden reminded listeners […]
Mifepristone will soon be available (with a prescription) at some CVS and Walgreens pharmacies. (Getty Images) Mifepristone, a drug that’s typically used in combination with another drug called misoprostol in medication abortions, has been under fire ever since Roe v. Wade, which protected the right to abortion in the United States, was overturned in 2022. […]
Two of the largest pharmacy chains in the US, CVS and Walgreens, will start selling the abortion pill mifepristone on prescription at stores in several US states later this month, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing interviews with officials at both companies. Joe Biden quickly applauded the decision, issuing a statement from the […]
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Knowing the abortion pill case was likely to spark public outrage, Kacsmaryk took extraordinary measures to keep proceedings under wraps: Typically, details on federal court cases are released on a publicly available docket. But in a conference call with lawyers on March 10, Kacsmaryk said he would try to delay the hearing’s announcement until the […]