Jessica Valenti: The GOP's New Lawsuit Against Mifepristone

[Nevilledog]

https://jessica.substack.com/p/mifepristone-lawsuit-abortion

With just weeks before the presidential election, three Republican-led states have quietly filed an amended complaint against the FDA in the hopes of rolling back access to mifepristone across the country.

The new filing from the Attorneys General of Kansas, Missouri, and Idaho seeks to make the abortion medication illegal for minors entirely, and targets shield state abortion providers who’ve been shipping abortion medication to patients in states with bans. The complaint argues that the FDA “unlawfully removed its prohibition against mailing abortion drugs,” enabling “a 50-state abortion drug mailing economy, undermining state abortion laws.”

In other words, they’re invoking the Comstock Act and hoping to stop the mailing of abortion medication—which has been a saving grace for patients in anti-abortion states. (Tele-health now accounts for nearly 1 in 5 abortions.)

And remember, while the case was brought by three specific states, a ruling would impact the entire country—even pro-choice states.

Abortion, Every Day will be publishing an in-depth breakdown of the amended complaint shortly, but here’s what’s most important to know: The suit seeks to reverse decisions allowing abortion medication to be mailed; revoke mifepristone access to minors entirely; and restore pre-2016 rules on mifepristone, which would rollback how far into pregnancy the pills can be used, limit who can prescribe the medication, and restore requirements for in-person visits.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Freethinker65]

2. Why would best practice medicine be illegal for minors for same purpose as used in adults?

Obviously, if used for abortions, the patient is old enough to become impregnated. If the State's interest is that the patient is too young to consent to intercourse so the impregnator is considered a rapist, that still should not deny the patient the same treatment available had the rape victim been over the age of consent.