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Another Stake in the Heart of Abortion Rights [1]

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Date: 2023-08-16

Remember when this mo-fo decided to try and make the abortion pill mifepristone illegal for everyone?

In the new ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld part of a sweeping decision issued in April by a federal judge in Texas. That decision, by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by President Donald J. Trump and has publicly espoused anti-abortion views, effectively nullified the F.D.A.’s approval of the pill.

Well the Fifth Circuit appeals court panel has upheld the FDA approval . . . but still felt the need to override doctors and scientists and the FDA and decades of safe, complication-free practice and severely limit women’s access to this pill. Best part? The ultimate arbiter of this decision will be Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and a few of their male billionaire friends.

The decision, which would prohibit the pill from being sent through the mail or prescribed by telemedicine . . . The appeals court ruling would mean that patients would have to make three visits to a doctor to get mifepristone and could not receive it in the mail.

The silver lining is that for the moment, access to the pill is preserved as it was. But for how long?

The court is likely to act in the coming months. It could deny review, leaving in place the appeals court’s ruling, curbing but not eliminating access to the pill. Or it could agree to hear the appeal, returning to contested terrain that at least some of the justices might prefer to avoid.

Those poor, poor members of the SCOTUS! They might have to be uncomfortable for a few days! GMAFB.

These are dark days for women, especially if you live in a red state. They have outlawed abortion, they are trying to limit your travel to other states to obtain an abortion, and they are now trying to make it impossible for you to get a medication for abortion sent to you.

Perhaps the most terrifying aspect of this development is the extent to which Republicans are gearing up to watch women’s every moves: to control their reproductive choices, to watch their mail, to limit their very right to travel without being watched. The Handmaid’s Tale is quickly becoming reality.

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