Abortion has become more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet. It’s now been two and a half years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for states to implement bans. The policies … Read more
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge targeting the availability of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone, preserving access to the drug in its first major abortion-related ruling since the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The unanimous ruling from the justices was on procedural grounds. They determined that a group of anti-abortion rights doctors … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against restricting access to the abortion pill mifepristone on Thursday, turning back a challenge from anti-abortion advocates. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the pill in 2000, and it’s currently used in more than 60% of U.S. abortions. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court … Read more
Washington — Louisiana became the first state to classify two abortion-inducing medications as controlled substances, making possession of the pills without a prescription a crime. Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed legislation that reclassifies misoprostol and mifepristone — a two-step regimen used to terminate early pregnancies — as Schedule IV drugs into law on Friday … Read more
Arizona Senate repeals 1864 abortion law as Florida’s goes into effect – CBS News Watch CBS News Florida’s six-week abortion ban went into effect on Wednesday, meaning it will now be nearly impossible to get an abortion anywhere in the South. Meanwhile, the Arizona Senate voted to repeal the 1864 near-total abortion ban that the … Read more
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that some of North Carolina’s restrictions on the distribution of abortion pills contradicted federal law. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles blocked the state’s requirement that doctors provide and prescribe the abortion pill mifepristone in person, followed by a subsequent appointment. The ruling came as the Supreme Court considers a case … Read more
Washington — When the Supreme Court heard arguments in two high-stakes, separate cases last month, Justice Neil Gorsuch raised concerns about how both disputes arrived at the court. The cases — one involving the Biden administration’s communications with social media companies and the other, the accessibility of a commonly used abortion pill — landed before … Read more
On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could reinstate restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, the first time abortion rights returned to the justices since the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. During the arguments, conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act. What is the … Read more
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush (Mo.) called for the Comstock Act to be repealed following the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over mifepristone Tuesday, calling the 1873 bill a “zombie statute.” The Supreme Court heard arguments from the federal government and Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) actions to … Read more
The drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing an abortion pill in a few states within weeks. CVS Health will start filling prescriptions for mifepristone in Rhode Island and neighboring Massachusetts “in the weeks ahead,” spokeswoman Amy Thibault said Friday. Walgreens will begin dispensing the medication within a week, spokesman Fraser Engerman … Read more
