If in the near future the U.S. Supreme Court decides to ban the abortion pill, you’ll have Andrew Bailey and Kris Kobach to blame.
The two men — the attorneys general of Missouri and Kansas, respectively — both signed friend of the court briefs backing the Texas case that suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s decades-old approval of the drug, named mifepristone. And in Kobach’s case, the brief made a rather startling argument: The pill should be banned in defense of the democratic process.
Why? Because the FDA’s decision allowing mifepristone to be sent and received through the mail permits women to circumvent the law in states that have prohibited abortion. The brief signed by Kobach and 20 other Republican attorneys general — 18 of them men — said the Biden administration should never have allowed such a violation.
