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US supreme court agrees to consider abortion pill access (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave to c/health

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Case will determine future of mifepristone in first major abortion issue to reach country’s highest court since it overturned Roe

The US supreme court on Wednesday agreed to hear oral arguments in a case that could determine the future of a pill used in most abortions in the US, in the first major abortion rights case to land at the country’s highest court since the justices overturned Roe v Wade and abolished the national right to the procedure in 2022.

A decision in the case will probably arrive in summer 2024, just months before the presidential election. The outcome of the case could affect not just access to the pill, which has been repeatedly deemed safe and effective, but the Federal Drug Administration’s authority to regulate all manner of medications.

The drug at the heart of the case is mifepristone, one of the two drugs typically used in medication abortions, which make up the majority of US abortions. Last year, an association of anti-abortion organizations and doctors, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the FDA had overstepped its authority when it approved mifepristone in 2000.

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[–] Caradoc879 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Are you... are you kidding? This will make access to the drugs impossible for everyone. Drug manufacturers will stop making it. Doctors will stop prescribing it, pharmacies will stop carrying it, and FAR MORE WOMEN THAN YOU REALLY KNOW will be forced to carry and birth children they cannot have or do not want.

The Supreme Court has power. I really hope you're an astroturfing troll and not this daft and fucking dumb. This kind of apathy and downplaying is EXACTLY WHY all this fucked up shit is happening.

Fucking troll.

[–] NocturnalMorning 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

No I'm not joking, presidents have ignored Supreme Court decisions in the past, and so can states. Look it up if you don't believe me.

And I'm not apathetic, i am suggesting that this is what we should do when the supreme court decides to try to ban abortion in the country.

This is not a right, I'm willing to let someone just decide I don't have.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants -3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Don't listen to him, he's too emotional to deal with the matter rationally right now.

We should distribute the pill online so people can still get it when they need.

[–] Caradoc879 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jesus fuck... so your best solution is black market abortion pills? Have you looked at history? It's so dangerous.

I''ll be joining protests. I'll be canvassing for politicians and people I believe in. I'll be supporting organizations working to repeal this and allow safe, legal, regulated medications.

I'll not be putting my families safety and livelihood at risk by joining black market drug rings.

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