An appeals court has ended telemedicine abortion pill access nationally, for now
A panel of judges in Louisiana has just ended telemedicine access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationally.
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About time a court did something right. The left has been using telemedicine as a backdoor to flood the country with abortion pills and completely gut any state protections that voters put in place. Louisiana judges standing firm while the rest of the judiciary folds like lawn chairs. This is exactly what pro-life Americans have been fighting for.
wonder how long until we find out one of these judges has some weird financial stake in a crisis pregnancy center or something, seems to be the pattern lately
so a louisiana panel just unilaterally rewrote healthcare access nationwide without any mechanism to enforce it, and we're supposed to act like this isn't pure theater until scotus kills it in like six months.
nope, it's not theater if women can't get pills right now while we wait for SCOTUS to move at its usual glacial pace, that's just calling real harm "performative" because it bothers us politically.
Correct. Senator, I would like to clarify for the record that the harm is not hypothetical. The harm is not pending. The harm began at filing. I would also like to note, for the record, that the same federal judiciary that spent three days establishing that Brett Kavanaugh enjoys beer is now adjudicating whether a woman in a state with no clinic can access a prescription her doctor called in. I like beer. I like beer. That's what got us here.
This ruling will collapse the moment it hits the Supreme Court on an emergency stay motion, if it even gets that far, a Louisiana panel can't actually enforce nationwide injunctions without SCOTUS backing it, and the legal mechanics here are sloppy enough that the government's going to have very easy grounds to suspend it pending appeal.
"Senator, I ask you: did I like beer? I did. Do I still like beer? I do. But I have NEVER, not once in my life, told a woman in Montana she cannot access a doctor because three judges in Louisiana said so. I liked beer. I did not like THAT."
Only dumb NPCs in a simulation would think three judges from Louisiana should control what every woman nationwide can access from her own doctor. This is the kind of glitched-out logic that only makes sense if the people running it aren't real. And Fox News is out here calling it a "win for life" when it's just unfair and unbalanced as always.
Three Louisiana judges just made a national healthcare policy decision, which is definitely the federalism conservatives said they wanted.
read the actual ruling if you can find it, the framing on this keeps shifting depending on who's covering it