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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Abortion Pill Mifepristone
The Supreme Court is expected on Tuesday to weigh the availability of a commonly used abortion pill, raising the possibility that it could sharply curtail access to the drug — even in states where abortion access remains legal. The case means that abortion is once again before the court, less than two years after a […]
Read MoreAbortion Pill Dispute Centers on Central Question: Who Can Sue?
The future of access to abortion pills may turn on a basic legal question: Who has a right to bring a lawsuit? Among the anti-abortion doctors involved in the case before the Supreme Court seeking to restrict availability of the pill is Dr. Christina Francis, who leads one of the anti-abortion groups suing the Food […]
Read MoreErin Hawley: the Woman Arguing Against the Abortion Pill Before the Supreme Court
It was 2014, and Erin Morrow Hawley was fighting against the egg-laying hens of Missouri. Specifically, a new requirement that chicken cages have enough space for the hens to stand up, turn around and stretch out. A law professor from five generations of ranchers and the wife of Senator Josh Hawley, Ms. Hawley joined a […]
Read MoreWhy Abortion Is Back at the Supreme Court
In his majority opinion in the case overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the high court was finally settling the vexed abortion debate by returning the “authority to regulate abortion” to the “people and their elected representatives.” Despite these assurances, less than two years after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, abortion […]
Read MoreAbortion Pill Rulings: What to Know About Availability of Mifepristone
The fate of a commonly used abortion pill is again before the Supreme Court, more than a year and a half after it said it would leave the matter of abortion to elected officials. The Biden administration had asked the justices to hear a challenge to the drug’s availability after a three-judge panel of the […]
Read MoreUse of Abortion Pills Has Risen Significantly Post Roe, Research Shows
A study, published on Monday in the medical journal JAMA, found that the number of abortions using pills obtained outside the formal health system soared in the six months after the national right to abortion was overturned. Another report, published last week by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found that […]
Read MoreChallenging Abortion, Again
How safe is it to take abortion pills? The F.D.A., the nation’s authority on drug regulation, says that it’s very safe. But the agency’s judgment is the topic of a sweeping challenge that the Supreme Court will hear tomorrow. The case could curtail Americans’ access to mifepristone, the first pill taken in a two-drug regimen […]
Read MoreNew Federal Judiciary Rule Will Limit ‘Forum Shopping’ by Plaintiffs
When anti-abortion activists sued the Food and Drug Administration in 2022 seeking to overturn the approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, they filed their suit in the federal court in Amarillo, Texas, where it was all but assured that the case would be heard by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, an outspoken opponent of abortion. Judge […]
Read MoreTrump Allies Plan New Sweeping Abortion Restrictions
Allies of former President Donald J. Trump and officials who served in his administration are planning ways to restrict abortion rights if he returns to power that would go far beyond proposals for a national ban or the laws enacted in conservative states across the country. Behind the scenes, specific anti-abortion plans being proposed by […]
Read MoreBiden Campaign Sharpens Its Post-Roe Message: Abortion Is About Freedom
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will headline events next week centered around protecting abortion rights, throwing more heft behind an issue that has galvanized voters in the 18 months since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. On Monday, Ms. Harris will visit Wisconsin to begin a national tour focused on preserving […]
Read MoreMore Women Who Are Not Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Pills Just in Case
Why It Matters The practice, known as advance provision, is relatively new and has increased significantly since the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to overturn the national right to abortion. In the study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers evaluated data from Aid Access, a telehealth organization that has long provided abortion pills […]
Read MoreWhere Will Abortion Rights Land?
As long as the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, conservatives complained that it had squelched the democratic process — that unelected men in black robes had handed down a national edict rather than letting the American people sort out a consensus. Celebrating Roe’s reversal in Dobbs v. […]
Read MoreHow Many Abortions Did the Post-Roe Bans Prevent?
The first data on births since Roe v. Wade was overturned shows how much abortion bans have had their intended effect: Births increased in every state with a ban, an analysis of the data shows. By comparing birth statistics in states before and after the bans passed, researchers estimated that the laws caused around 32,000 […]
Read MoreDespite State Bans, Legal Abortions Didn’t Fall Nationwide in Year After Dobbs
In the 12 months after the Dobbs decision in June 2022, there were on average 82,298 abortions a month, compared with 82,115 in the two months before Dobbs, WeCount found. The group, part of the Society of Family Planning, which supports abortion rights, collects monthly numbers from providers across the country. The new data, released […]
Read MoreMother Who Gave Abortion Pills to Teen Daughter Gets 2 Years in Prison
A Nebraska woman who acquired abortion pills that her teenage daughter used to end her pregnancy last year was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison. The woman, Jessica Burgess, 42, was charged after the police found her private Facebook messages, which revealed plans she had with her daughter to end the pregnancy and […]
Read MoreWhy It’s Alarming That Poland Can Test Women for Abortion Pills
Nearly three years ago, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal effectively ended legal abortion in the country. Since then, the Polish government has vigorously repressed the nation’s reproductive rights movement and ramped up surveillance of women who are suspected of terminating their pregnancies. Authorities have violently dispersed demonstrations, threatened activists with prison time and ordered doctors to record […]
Read MoreJustice Dept. Asks Supreme Court to Hear Abortion Pill Case
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Friday evening to hear a challenge to the availability of a commonly used abortion pill, mifepristone, raising the possibility that the justices will rule on the fate of the drug. The move sets up a showdown over access to the pill, which is used in more than […]
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