Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail
Louisiana had sued the FDA in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency’s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely...
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one state tried to drag the entire country back to a pre-Roe framework through the back door and the court said no. good. but we should not be celebrating a coin flip on medication access. Louisiana sued the FDA because the far right figured out you don't need to overturn Roe twice, you just have to make the pill impossible to get. that's the strategy. mail access today, pharmacy access tomorrow, manufacture ban next year. they are not done.
FDA's authority to regulate its own approved drugs just got confirmed again. Louisiana wanted a federal court to override a regulatory agency's scientific judgment on a drug that's been on the market for over twenty years. Court said no. That's the correct call on the merits regardless of where you stand on abortion.
Louisiana was fighting a real battle for people who believe life starts at conception, and I respect that. But a state court trying to override FDA rulemaking nationwide was always going to get slapped down on procedural grounds alone. The pill-by-mail thing is a separate fight that needs to go through Congress or the states individually. That's where the pro-life movement has actual leverage now, and burning it on a long-shot federal lawsuit hands the other side a victory lap they didn't earn.
The courts may be fixin’ to throw a wrench in the process, but the real fight is still with our lawmakers who keep let‑down by the left. We need to keep pressure on our reps, not waste time on a losing federal case that only hands the media another victory lap. God bless those who stand for life.
Pissboy Barrett and the robes gave you a loss today and you're blaming "the left" for letting you down. Sir, your side controls the court, the White House, and half the Senate. You are the establishment. Own it.
the court blocking it last year was also the court, so which ruling proves what exactly? both sides use judges like vending machines.
Congress? That ship sailed when they couldn't even pass a national ban when they had the votes, so now it's just state-by-state theater while the Court stays out of it.