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

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Source: CNN Politics

Published 6:18 PM EDT, Wed October 16, 2024


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 states – Missouri, Kansas and Idaho – filed an amended suit in a federal court in Texas asking US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to rollback efforts the Food and Drug Administration has taken over the past eight years to ease access to the drug, such as allowing it to be dispensed through the mail.

The suit may thrust the issue of mifepristone access back on track for Supreme Court review in the next presidential administration, once again threatening the widespread availability of the drug even in states where abortion is legal and at a time when roughly half of states have imposed severe restrictions on in-clinic abortions.

“These dangerous drugs are now flooding states like Missouri and Idaho and sending women in these states to the emergency room,” the states argued in the new lawsuit. The claim that mifepristone is unsafe has been widely refuted by mainstream medical organizations. Medication abortions account for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the US.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/politics/mifepristone-abortion-lawsuit-idaho-missouri-kansas-supreme-court/index.html

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1. Yeah...

Montana's AG is laying low right now since he's under investigation for his other criminal activities.

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2. So... ignoring the Supreme Court? I guess it really isn't that sacred of an institution.

Supreme Court - Unelected tyrants OR Sacred institution?

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3. The state of AL has ignored the SCOTUS as well

notably with respect to redistricting and a racial gerrymander - https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1200906844/supreme-court-alabama-voting-case

(this had some updates since, including a parallel SC gerrymandering case - https://highlandcountypress.com/headlines/federal-court-declines-dismiss-alabama-redistricting-case-after-south-carolina-ruling#gsc.tab=0)

AL is operating under court-created districts at the moment while the case continues.

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4. Conservatives have nothing to do w this CNN. Stop using that word.

For these articles.

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5. You see? THIS state, KS, gave abortion more or less free rein.

we tromped that ballot the measure. The Synod of Kansas City Ks and MO had their heads turning around by how badly they were outdone. ALL women... whatever party... want personal healthcare decisions, an especially abortion and IVF to be done on
THEIR concerns, along with their docs. No government non-doctors need apply we told them.. in overwhelming numbers.

Do they listen us? NO.... only white, christianist, racist nazis will end up voting for it. 'Course they're never going to get any that coud lead to a baby, anway. forced birth? Plant it in the body of the male. He's even got nipples!

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6. The prior misoprostol lawsuit was dismissed due to a lack of standing

Standing requires an actual injury or harm. In the case that the SCOTUS dismissed, some asshole RWNJ doctors claimed to have standing because they might have to treat someone who took this drug. SCOTUS rejected this standing argument. The latest case has what seems me to be an even weaker standing theory that states will be damaged due population loss if females are able to control when they have children.

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This is a stupid and offensive argument. I was shocked that the last case got past the 5th Circuit and to the SCOTUS. To me this argument is even weaker.

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7. ...

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8. We will see how the court deals this standing issue

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9. LOL