September Updates

SCOTUS poised to take up mifepristone case this fall

Following the 5th Circuit ruling on mifepristone, the case is expected to make it to the Supreme Court as early as October of this year. Their verdict may have several hefty consequences, including challenges to FDA drug approvals across the board. While the latest 5th Circuit opinion did not fully revoke access to the drug, it affirmed that there should be extensive limits on how patients can get it. 

From the NYT: "[T]he appeals court's decision essentially turned back the clock...to before the [FDA] began making a series of regulatory changes in 2016 that significantly broadened access to the pill...Those regulations required mifepristone to be prescribed and dispensed only by a doctor and picked up in person by the patient, who would have to visit the doctor three times during the medication abortion process." 

Ultimately, right-wing groups and conservative organizations will seek to create more barriers to this form of abortion, the most commonly prescribed medication for the procedure. 

Bans challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights

On Tuesday, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced that it will seek cases in three states - Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma - to challenge the current abortion laws and the impacts on patients and physicians. 

The organization is behind the Zurawski v. State of Texas, which resulted in an injunction by a district judge, though the State immediately appealed it. 

Per the CRR: "[Tuesday], the Center...[filed] complaints in three states...on behalf of women denied or delayed in receiving medically necessary abortion care despite facing severe and dangerous pregnancy complications. With these actions, the Center seeks to ensure that pregnant people in such dire situations can access abortion care in these states, and that doctors are given clarity on what situations qualify under the “medical emergency” exceptions in their states’ abortion bans." 

Finally - some good news!

After a court ruling on the 1849 law in Wisconsin found that it did not apply to modern-day abortion procedures or reproductive healthcare, Planned Parenthood announced that it would resume abortion-related care in the state(!!!) Wisconsin has been in legal limbo following the Dobbs decision last year. 

Per CBS: "Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper ruled in June that Wisconsin's 173-year-old abortion ban outlaws killing fetuses but doesn't apply to consensual medical abortions...the legal language in the 1849 law doesn't use the term "abortion" so it only prohibits attacking a woman in an attempt to kill her unborn child."

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