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 called for the Comstock Act to be repealed following the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over mifepristone Tuesday, calling the 1873 bill a “zombie statute.”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
Thousands of women in the U.S. stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become harder to get. Medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., and … Read more
