The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case that would decide whether oral abortion pills (which account for about two-thirds of all abortions) will stay legal or be outlawed. The lawsuit was filed by a group of doctors who object to abortion. https://twitter.com/sam_baker/status/1772655482219474984 From Axios:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed unlikely to broadly restrict access to medication abortion in the court’s biggest abortion-related case since overturning Roe v. Wade two years ago.
It wasn’t clear from those arguments exactly how the court is likely to rule. There did not seem to be five justices who were inclined to hand down a broad ruling that would undercut the FDA’s regulations of the drug.
The federal government argued that these doctors didn’t have the legal standing to bring this case. They don’t prescribe mifepristone, and they certainly don’t take it. So they haven’t suffered any real injury from the FDA’s regulatory decisions, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued.
Read more at Axios. https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1772675143057215639 https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1772648865465852063
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