Supreme Court Seems Set to Preserve Access to Mifepristone in Likely Defeat for Abortion Foes
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on the abortion pill mifepristone, which is available by mail and can be taken at home, even in states that have severely limited or banned abortions. The case was brought by a group of anti-choice medical associations that have sought to overturn moves by the Food and Drug Administration to increase access to the drug, which is used for roughly two-thirds of all U.S. abortions. This was the first abortion-related Supreme Court hearing since the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. A decision is expected by July. "Overall the justices showed that they were skeptical of the claims brought by the plaintiffs in this case," says Michele Goodwin, a law professor at Georgetown University and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. Goodwin summarizes the arguments presented by both sides, the justices' responses and the legal implications of the upcoming ruling.
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@ah6352
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Stay on topic
@eltorocal
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@@ah6352No... Spread The Word. If YOU have the comprehension skills of a 2nd grader and the attention span of a gnat, then YOU should go back to coloring books and crayons.
@auturgicflosculator2183
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@@ah6352 Genocide doesn't stop because you clicked away from the videos covering it.
@scarlettt3234
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Stop the genocide of the unborn humans
Ain't no Hate like Christian Love.
@Helios--
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I don't think it's Christians in general so much as fringe (in the minority) loons who're incapable of minding their own fvcking business. For ex. no one really hears much about Catholics for Choice - wouldn't want SANE people to get a platform...
How the eff did this get to the Supreme Court? There is not even a case here, much less one that needs SCOTUS to weigh in. Pathetic.
@cyndybutler7330
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Morally bankrupt democrats
@vanessamaldonado5877
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Because conservatives packed the lower courts and these activist reich-wing judges are ruling not based on law or evidence, but based on political agenda.
@markkozlowski3674
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It got the Supreme Court because otherwise the Fifth Circuit's decision, which largely upheld the district court's decision enjoining distribution of the abortion pill, would have stood. This would have brought about an immediate constitutional crisis.
@DonaldLancon
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@@markkozlowski3674 Yes, and it should never have reached the 5C either. It's turtles all the way down.
I've said it before, and I say it again, HAVING A MASTERS DEGREE IN MYTHOLOGY .... I mean theology does NOT make you a doctor!
@joelyates2404
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Anyone with the slightest intelligence knows that a masters degree doesn't provide the title of "Doctor".Then again, rats have small brains.
@auturgicflosculator2183
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Having a master's degree in anything doesn't make you a doctor.
@herahagstoz6934
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@@auturgicflosculator2183🤣 Nice one.
@mathildeyoung1823
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it's science that tells us the life of a new human being starts at fertilization. It's common sense that tells me that taking the life of a defenseless human being to make your life easier is wrong and needs to be illegal.
There MUST BE no excemption for "religious objection" for these doctors/nurses/pharmacists, your job is to provide medical care, period, if you cant because of your religious delusions, then you should be fired and your medical license revoked, medicine is science and ppl using religion instead of science put the health of patients at huge risk.
@greenthumb8266
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@kristinhornick1890
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You sound psychotic.
@BlahblahblahblahblahblahblahFU
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Any public service job! They cannot do their job, because of religion, they need to get out of their position or get fired. Public service Jobs are ti provide services to the public!
@elizabethcarter1175
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As an OB/GYN provider, I totally disagree with you. They can have their religious objections. It is up to their employer to accept this or not hire them or decrease their pay. Clinics and hospitals have been making these arrangements since abortion became legal mid '70's.
@elizabethcarter1175
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@BlahblahblahblahblahblahblahFU In general, these people are NOT public servants. They do not work for the government. The relatively small number employed by the government would be designated public servants.
"The Chair of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board and a board member both resigned in shame after the board approved the parole of a serial domestic abuser who allegedly went on to stab his pregnant ex-girlfriend and murder her 11-year-old son less than a day after being released."
@eltorocal
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What the RED State HELL!
@jack-of-all-trades1234
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@@eltorocal Illinois is a Democrat stronghold.
@eltorocal
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@@jack-of-all-trades1234 I know... but conservatives have tried so damn hard for years to take it, and all they do is blame... GUN Nutz abound.
Anti-choice? How bass ackwards!
My mother had ten children and lost... I don't know how many... by miscarries, and others...by maybe back alley methods to abort. She spent most of her life pregnant, are recovering from the effects of being pregnant. The last child she birthed, has birth defects, before started taking birth control pill, and she spent the rest of her life as a single mother, caring for her. I was the oldest girl, and spent most of my life caring for my younger siblings. I can't remember having a childhood. When my mother became elderly, and unable to care for herself, I, being the oldest, ended up caring for her and my younger disabled sibling for years, until she died. The only thing that saved my mother from having more children. was the birth control pill. I resent seeing these men, and some women, who wants women to have as many children they can bear, because of "their" religious beliefs. They call themselves "pro-life,." yet they also, do not want to provide for these children, their mothers, or caregivers to take care of them in ways that would help, them have a good life. For myself, I have struggled with taking care of myself, my own children, my siblings who are not able to take of themselves. I say, if some people who going to force women to have as many children as they can bear, they should also provide free child care, schooling, job training, etc., until the children can be self-sufficient. If not, stay out of women's business, unless, you, your church are going to take care of all these children. I guess they can continue to have them killed by the wars we start, or by policemen's, if they do a crime, because of how they were raised or not raised, or raised themselves, after they are born.
We'll probably have a result in June, end of court season
Supreme court justices should only give oppinion on the intrpretation of the law,which they are more and more describing as jibberish
Eating raw pineapple will do the same thing. Do they want to make raw pineapple illegal? I have a tree here in Puerto Rico and a juice made from the fruit as been used by some cultures to cause cattle to abort their calves. It basically is an abortion fruit but the dried shell of the fruit is sometimes use to make bowls.
@annmarieknapp
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What's name of the shell?
@darrellernst5493
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@@annmarieknapp I'm sorry I don't remember the name of the tree. The fruit is a big ball shaped fruit. I just tried Googling it and the best guess is the Calabash Tree, in Spanish crescentia cujete.
@ScottCampbell-xp5nx
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If that hippie nonsense actually worked, modern medicine never would have been invented.
@daisyadele967
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Or just take lots of vitamin C will do it
@auturgicflosculator2183
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@@daisyadele967 A study called "Vitamins C and E in spontaneous abortion" by J S Vobecky, J Vobecky, D Shapcott, D Cloutier, R Lafond, R Blanchard was unable to find evidence of causal association. The only known original source of such a rumor is "Mechanism of abortion induced by ascorbic acid" published in a 1966 Soviet "Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine." Not the most trustworthy paper. In short, vitamin C doesn't work.
Women have the power to put an end to this MAGA GOP threat of a national abortion ban, let's just stock up on batteries and play with our toys to encourage that men choose to VOTE BLUE in November!
@auturgicflosculator2183
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Better yet, everybody should stop voting for red and blue, and elect leaders who actually care about reform rather than who can make corporations the most money.
@ScottCampbell-xp5nx
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Grody!
@CommaderJohn
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I’m going to vote Republican because abortion is murder.
@paulvogel5582
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Roe v Wade was a lie from start to finish, the woman outright lied in court and now admits it ! BUT the whole abortion argument is the sharp end of the paedophile ,child trafficking and abuse crimes, did you know that unborn child body parts is a $ billion industry, and if a baby lives they leave it on the table to die !Those body parts etc are used in food flavourings ,vaccines and much more !Its nothing to do with womens choice, of course they always have a choice, not to get pregnant!.
@ba3725
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Idk, the blues want to allow penised people into female spaces like changing rooms
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The name of the author should not be larger than the name of the book.
Amy please talk about the out of control OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING for k-12 teachers that's why we have teacher shortages I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL
The plaintiffs are taking orders from their church and so called god
My friend and a well-known critical care nurse wrote a paper in which she stated that if a patient comes to a doctor for treatment, the doctor is ethically required to give such treatment regardless of personal bias.
@keksterbojester818
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Pretty sure the Insurance company has the ultimate say
😡 if any abortion medications not allowed to be mailed to the patient that also means that no other medications would not be allowed to mail. Where will this stop could it be aspirin next
@AdrianCarroll-fj5ce
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They wouldn't target aspirin because men need that too.
Unexpected (potential/possible) win for the uteri of the United States. 🤞🏻
“ doctor this women’s pregnancy isn’t viable, she is going to bleed to death” Dr. “Well god doesn’t make mistakes. “ “ doctor I’m not able to get an erection anymore” Dr. “ oh here you go, there’s a prescription for that. “
The Hawleys are proof that there's a poisonous monster out there for EVERY poisonous monster.
Warning ⚠️ Do Not Take Mifepristone if pregnant.
General scientific there's subject to superme court for notes order general assembly United nations rights of general scientific secretary general of general assembly United nations provided security forces and others rights in the hunder rules regulations
If you murder a person, are you a criminal? If you have a deliberate abortion without justification, what's the difference? Nothing, you are both considered human beings because as there is a life that begins after conception, you will also be considered a murderer. If human justice doesn't act, divine justice will of course act when you disincarnate or believe that God is unjust.
@JRandaII
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Nope
@auturgicflosculator2183
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What makes your religion law, when it's one religion out of thousands? It's unscientific, and it's unfair to everyone else.
They are not anti-choice whatsoever .. they are simply prologic .. allowing free access to abortion just gives women the opportunity to recover on themselves their partners and their kids
@eltorocal
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What the hell? You just enjoy typing ignorance... Reich?
@AngelBaby-cp6kf
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@hob976
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Could you elaborate on " gives women the opportunity to recover on themselves their partners and their kids". I didn't understand that sentence. What does "recover on themselves" mean? - Thanks for clarifying.
@kristinhornick1890
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Huh? Standard English please.
@Helios--
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Your mangled English aside, there's nothing "logical" about denying women basic obstetric care.
_This_ is how you need to vote come November: We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), and all other Republicans. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the two-party monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _both_ authoritarian parties in the two-party monopolies. Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
@user-wl2xl5hm7k
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Please also upvote this comment’s sister-comment.
@eltorocal
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@@user-wl2xl5hm7kwell... at least You have Yourself CONvinced.
*This* is how you need to vote come November: We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the two-party monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _both_ authoritarian parties in the two-party monopolies. Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
@user-wl2xl5hm7k
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Please also upvote this comment’s sister-comment.
@annmarieknapp
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No, a third part vote helps Trump who is fascist.
@ShirleeKnott
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@user-wl2xl5hm7k
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@@annmarieknapp That’s not true at all. You’re falling into the D and R false propaganda. If you want to get out of it, then look up the false choice logical fallacy and how it works. You’re doing it here. I also strongly recommend learning the subject of critical thinking and all the other logical fallacies. Go learn. I have faith in you.
@annmarieknapp
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@@user-wl2xl5hm7k Nice try. I'm a college professor.
The case was brought by a bunch of crockpots🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 that believe Santa Claus is going to come and give them a present!!!!