The Unprecedented Judicial Move in the Texas Abortion Pill Decision
It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.
It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.
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The divergent orders from judges in Washington state and Texas may bring the battle over mifepristone to the Supreme Court.
On Good Friday, two district courts issued decisions on the FDA's approval of the abortion drug mifepristone.
Litigation over abortion drugs turns disagreements about individual rights into a bureaucratic tussle.
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Abortion and gerrymandering are likely to be on the court's docket in the near future, and Janet Protasiewicz ran unabashedly to the left on both issues. Is this the best way to decide contentious topics?
Second in a two-part series published by Australian Outlook, a publication of the Australian Institute for International Affairs.
"Taking that child across the border, and if that happens without the permission of the parent, that's where we'll be able to hold accountable those that would subvert a parent's right," said one of the bill's sponsors.
And this lawsuit faces many of the same administrative law hurdles as does AHM v. FDA.
ADF's Erin Hawley responds to my post on the jurisdictional problems in AHM v. FDA and I reply.
It examines whether people are likely to "vote with their feet" based on interstate differences in abortion policy, after Dobbs. The first in a series of two articles on this topic.
A nominee's work defending a state parental-notification law in 2005 may be a stumbling block to his confirmation.
The Court's newest justice questions whether her colleagues are too quick to vacate lower court decisions.
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"I know either way he will use it against me.... And after the fact, I know he will try to act like he has some right to the decision," said the woman in text messages to her friends named as defendants in the suit.
The law allows abortions when there is a "medical emergency"—but what qualifies as an emergency?
There's been lots of heat, but very little light in coverage and commentary about the lawsuit seeking to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone.
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"I pray wherever I go, inside my head, for the people around me," said one priest. "How can it be a crime for a priest to pray?"
The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision gives states the ability to prohibit abortion. For a lot of pro-lifers, this highlights how much persuading they still have to do.
An underground network in Chicago helped women terminate thousands of pregnancies amid abortion prohibition.
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The court ruled that the state's six-week abortion ban violates the right to privacy.
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The Supreme Court said in 1942 that local activity, not just interstate activity, was subject to congressional regulation.
Note that the decision is not inconsistent with the Supreme Court's holding in Dobbs, though it may of course still be overturned on appeal on other grounds.
Last week, a Kansas judge halted the enforcement of a law requiring a doctor to be in the same room as a patient taking abortion pills—a move hailed by abortion advocates as an important step to increase medication abortion access in the state.
While "the 26 words that created the internet" have been under fire from both sides, two groups argue that the 1996 law is essential to the future of abortion rights.
In the event of prosecution, jury nullification allows regular people to exercise a veto over the power of the state.
The panel relies on, among other things, "the Apex doctrine."
Rethinking the constitutional defense of reproductive rights after Dobbs via the Ninth Amendment
People with money on the line try harder than pundits to be right, and they adjust quickly when they've made a mistake.
Voters in California, Michigan, and Vermont embraced constitutional amendments to protect abortion rights, while Kentuckians rejected an anti-abortion amendment.
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Voters will soon cast ballots on a constitutional amendment that seeks to explicitly remove any protections for abortion in the state's constitution.