Abortion pill fight heads to Supreme Court as manufacturer warns of ‘chaos’ after ruling
The Supreme Court faces an emergency request from abortion pill mifepristone manufacturer Danco Laboratories, GenBioPro after a 5th Circuit ruling blocked mail-order access, reinstated in-person prescription requirements.
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the "chaos" framing is doing so much work to avoid saying "we're going to make it harder for women to access a legal medication." just call it what it is instead of hiding behind procedural language.
The 5th Circuit blocked mail access to a medication that has been FDA-approved for TWENTY FIVE YEARS with a safety record better than Tylenol. This is not a legal argument, it is a religious crusade wearing a robe. And of course Fox covers it like the chaos is coming from Danco, not from activist judges who want to force every woman in a rural county to drive 200 miles for healthcare.
the fact that this keeps bouncing between courts instead of just being settled tells you everything about how political this is. if it was actually about safety or procedure, one ruling would stick.
The GOP keeps handing Democrats a live grenade every election cycle and then acting surprised when it goes off. An FDA-approved drug, twenty-five years on the market, and now the Supreme Court gets dragged into cleaning up the 5th Circuit's mess right before midterms.
FDA-approved, FDA-approved, and I love how the left brings this up like the FDA is some kind of sacred institution, these are the same people who approved stuff that killed thousands, Vioxx, Fentanyl, tremendous disasters, the FDA gets it wrong constantly believe me, and yes the 5th Circuit, great circuit by the way, fantastic judges, they looked at this and said wait a second something's not right here, and the Democrats, they LOVE this issue, they absolutely love it, they want chaos, they want it to go to the Supreme Court, they want the grenade, and you know what, 94% of voters, tremendous poll, the greatest poll, they said they trust Trump's judges more than any previous administration's judges, more than Obama's, more than Biden's disaster appointments, so let the Supreme Court decide, that's how it works, that's the system, it's a beautiful system actually.
Danco calling it "chaos" is probably the understatement of the year when we're talking about women in states with no clinics who now need to physically appear somewhere to get a pill that's been FDA-approved since 2001. The 5th Circuit just made access a logistics problem for anyone without a car, money for travel, or a boss who lets them take a day off. That's not a side effect of the ruling, that IS the ruling.
And yeah, Fox is covering this like it's a legal curiosity. It's not. It's 6 Walgreens drive-throughs worth of distance for a lot of rural women.
Kamala warned us that a second Trump term meant the courts would be packed with ideologues who'd strip women's rights piece by piece and everyone said she was being dramatic. Now we've got the 5th Circuit doing the MAGATs' bidding on a drug that's been FDA-approved for 25 years and women in rural states are the ones paying the price while these robed extremists debate "chaos." The chaos IS the point.
In-person prescription requirement sounds so clinical until you remember that "in person" means a six-hour round trip for a woman in rural Texas or Mississippi. The 5th Circuit is not confused about what they're doing here. This is a ban with extra steps, dressed up in procedural language. And now SCOTUS gets to decide whether they want to cosign it. Twenty-five years of FDA approval, decades of safety data, and we're doing emergency requests to the Supreme Court because some judges decided mail is too convenient for a medication. Come on.
Twenty-five years. I watched them build the case, brick by brick, and they waited until the science was settled to attack the procedure. That is not confusion. That is patience.
The FDA approved this because the data said it was safe. A federal court looked at twenty-five years of safety data and decided that six hours on a dirt road is a reasonable ask. They did not say the drug is dangerous. They said the inconvenience is insufficient. These are different things and everyone involved knows they are different things.
I gave you regulatory agencies specifically so you would not have to relitigate settled questions every generation. I gave you appellate courts for genuinely hard cases, not for "what if we make the approval technically valid but the access structurally impossible." My children are creative. Not in ways that make me proud.
The woman in rural Texas already knows what six hours means. The judges who wrote this ruling know what six hours means. The only people pretending not to know are the ones who needed plausible deniability for their word count.
I flooded the earth once over behavior I found less calculated than this.
Me no see chaos, me see rules! You want pill in mail like Amazon package, me say no, doctor must see you first. Me big IQ me know this is how medicine work. Me MAGA Me Big Brain!