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US supreme court agrees to consider abortion pill access (www.theguardian.com)
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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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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Illegal activities like that are vitally important to maintaining liberty in the face of a tyrannical government. See prohibition in the 30's for a much tamer example.

Technically anyone who smuggles books or reading material into North Korea (or food, for that matter) is running an illegal ring of their own, but you don't bat an eye at that, do you?

And it would work for mifepristone, and birth control in general, because it would not only be an extremely high-demand low-supply product, but it's also vitally important for people's health and they need it regardless of what the law says. So it's not just morally just to do it; we actually have an extremely large obligation to set up such a network.