All posts tagged "Mifepristone"

Conservative Supreme Court justices wrote a scathing dissent to the 7-2 decision to allow women to continue accessing the abortion pill Mifepristone via mail and telehealth.

"What is at stake is the perpetration of a scheme to undermine our decision in Dobbs v. Jackson," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his dissent, referring to the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and pulled back abortion access.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court continued a pause on an appeals court decision that restricted access to Mifepristone via telehealth and mail. The decision extended a stay that the bench handed down earlier in the month, but it is not the final decision, as it will go back to the New Orleans-based appeals court and could return to the Supreme Court docket, reported The Hill. ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed women to continue accessing the abortion pill Mifepristone through telehealth visits, blocking a lower court ruling that would have required in-person visits while litigation continues.

CNN reported that the conservative court maintained its stay of a May 1 Fifth Circuit decision that "abruptly required women to obtain the drug through in-person visits." Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the decision. The court did not explain its reasoning or disclose the full vote count.

The decision preserves the status quo while officials in Louisiana continue to push for limiting the availability of the drug in lower courts, CNN reported, adding that "the focus will now return to the New Orleans-based appeals court, which will decide the merits of Louisiana's challenge."...

President Donald Trump has tried to ignore a top issue among his base: abortion. But now that's backfiring — and could risk further fracturing his MAGA coalition and losing support from anti-abortion activists, an analyst noted on Tuesday.

The Bulwark's Andrew Egger referred to it as Trump's "lose lose abortion dilemma" as Trump, "who has never cared personally about abortion bans, functionally cut the pro-life movement loose during his 2024 campaign and has more or less ignored the issue since his re-election, while Democrats have had their hands full opposing the things Trump is doing right now."

While Democrats pushed back on the end of Roe v. Wade and used it as a main policy point throughout the 2022 and 2024 elections, Trump has steered clear of discussing the topic, despite the mounting pushback among red states that have actively banned abortions are trying to sue to end mail abortion drugs — specifically mifepristone, which is one of the two drugs used together to induce abortion. ...

The Trump administration reportedly explored how to trace abortion pills in wastewater.

A team of scientists was directed by senior officials from the Environmental Protection Agency this summer to find out if the government could detect traces of the abortion drug mifepristone and if it could be contaminating water supplies, according to The New York Times.

The "highly unusual request" was directed by senior EPA officials following a letter from 25 Republican members of Congress who requested to find out if the abortion drug mifepristone could be contaminating the water supply or if resources could help to develop a testing method. The move was led by Republican Oklahoma lawmakers Sen. James Lankford and Rep. Josh Brecheen. ...