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The Supreme Court just unanimously rejected a MAGA challenge to the FDA’s ability to regulate mifepristone -- a drug used in medication abortion.
This is a good thing: A small victory against this extremist court’s ongoing attacks on reproductive freedom and abortion in particular.
But it is not over. The Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) ruling was simply that the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring this case. Not only does that not rule out future legal attacks on mifepristone, this is exactly the way MAGA justices explicitly keep the door open for another case to be brought forward in a manner that allows them to rip away our freedoms.
And while we may have gotten a reprieve from a federal mifepristone restriction for today, MAGA state legislatures across the country are doing everything they can to outlaw medication abortion locally: Just a few weeks ago, Louisiana passed a law classifying mifepristone and misoprostol (the two drugs used for medication abortion) as controlled substances, drastically restricting the drugs.
Access to medication abortion is still not safe from the hands of MAGA extremists.
We know that Trump’s justices are not satisfied with letting women have freedom over their bodies, his hand-picked cronies are the exact justices who repealed Roe. They are looking for any opportunity to do it again, and they may soon have just that opportunity when they rule on whether states can ban doctors from providing emergency abortion care, right up until a woman is about to die, in violation of federal patient protections under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).
Reproductive freedoms are still in danger from SCOTUS today, and they will be even more endangered if Trump is re-elected in November. We’ve got to get to work today:
SCOTUS gets no points for doing the bare minimum and -- at least temporarily -- upholding the FDA’s ability to regulate drug safety. We already know that MAGA Republicans don’t care about facts or evidence (they’re still supporting Trump even after multiple guilty verdicts), they want control over our autonomy. Join us tonight and learn how you can help protect our rights today and into the future.
In solidarity, Indivisible Team
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