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An obscure 1800s law is shaping up to be the center of the next abortion battle – legal scholars explain what's behind the Victorian-era Comstock Act

Anti-abortion groups are looking for new ways to wage their battle against abortion rights, eyeing the potential implications of a 150-year-old law, the Comstock Act, that could effectively lead to a nationwide abortion ban.

The Conversation

Another Judicial Ethics Story About Judge Kacsmaryk Falls Apart

Editors should withdraw any unpublished stories about judicial ethics to get a grip on reality.

Reason

The long and winding history of the war on abortion drugs

Along with the stethoscope and camembert cheese, mifepristone may be one of France’s greatest inventions. It’s one of two drugs taken for medical abortions, along with misoprostol, and has been making headlines in the US, where a Texas judge issued a ruling to ban it nationwide. FRANCE 24 takes a…

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A reasonable supreme court? Hardly. Don’t be fooled by this extremist establishment

Recent stay on the abortion pill ban is a contest between conservative institutionalists and ideologues on the court

The Guardian - US

Democratic states stockpile abortion pills as legal fight for access looms

US supreme court has preserved access to mifespristone for now, but blue states announce plans to safeguard abortion rights

The Guardian - US

What’s next in the Supreme Court fight over abortion pill mifepristone?

Nothing will change for now

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court fight over an abortion pill: What's next?

Nothing will change for now

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The Supreme Court rules mifepristone can remain available – here's how 2 conflicting federal court decisions led to this point

The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling on April 21, 2023, that allows continued access to the abortion pill mifepristone in states where abortion is legal.

The Conversation

US Supreme Court keeps abortion pill fully available for now

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a Texas judge’s restrictions on a widely used abortion pill from taking effect, keeping the drug fully available while a legal fight goes forward.

Tribune News Service

America’s top court lifts ban on abortion pill

The US Supreme Court has blocked new restrictions set by lower courts on a widely used abortion pill, delivering a victory to President Joe Biden

The New Daily

SCOTUS: Abortion pill is safe — for now

SCOTUS reversed a federal judge's previous ruling that banned mifepristone, a pill intrinsic to medication abortion

Salon

Supreme Court Stays Lower Court Ruling That Limited Access to Abortion Pill

Mifepristone will remain on the market for now with no changes to how it can be prescribed.

Reason

Abortion pill access preserved — for now — by Supreme Court

The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone. They are appealing a lower court ruling that would roll back Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme court rules abortion pill CAN be accessed throwing out restriction bid

The US Supreme Court has ruled on a challenge to mifepristone pills, the most common method in the US, which was brought by anti-abortion campaigners in the first abortion controversy since Roe v. Wade

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Supreme Court blocks lower court decision in case on FDA approval of abortion pill

The Supreme Court has left the case in the hands of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has scheduled oral arguments in the case for May 17.

The Guardian - US

US supreme court blocks ruling limiting access to abortion pill

Federal judge in Texas ruled in early April to suspend FDA-approved mifepristone used in more than half of abortions in US

The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court leaves abortion drug on the market, for now

The legal challenge to mifepristone now returns to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

Al Jazeera

US Supreme Court upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone

The ruling preserves broad access to mifepristone, while litigation continues over the pill’s approval for US use.

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Roll Call

Supreme Court pauses rulings limiting abortion drug for now - Roll Call

The Supreme Court weighs in on a case involving a drug commonly used for abortions that the FDA first approved in 2000.

Al Jazeera

What to know about the abortion pill mifepristone

The US Supreme Court is considering whether to uphold restrictions to the pill used in more than half of US abortions.

Daily Mirror

Supreme court rules abortion pill CAN be withheld in backward step for women's rights

The Independent UK

Texas judge behind abortion drug ruling didn’t disclose radio interviews where he said being gay was ‘a lifestyle’

The judge who blocked the FDA’s authorisation of mifepristone says he did not recall the interivew

The Independent UK

Supreme Court set to decide on access to abortion pill

The Supreme Court is facing a self-imposed Friday night deadline to decide whether women’s access to a widely used abortion pill will stay unchanged until a legal challenge to its Food and Drug Administration approval is resolved

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Would a nationwide abortion ban be constitutional?

The Supreme Court has given itself until midnight Friday to make an “emergency” decision on access to mifepristone, a drug used in half of all U.S. abortions. Whatever the outcome, it’s just a preliminary round in the battle over U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling earlier this month to…

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court fight over an abortion pill: What's next?

The Supreme Court initially gave itself a deadline of Wednesday to decide whether women seeking access to a widely used abortion pill would face more restrictions while a court case plays out

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