Top Dem lets GOP veto Biden judges "Durbin refuses to revoke the blue-slip tradition that willingly grants GOP the ability to obstruct," critic says Salon · Apr 11, 2023
New York latest state to stockpile abortion-inducing pills New York is joining other states in stockpiling abortion pills The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2023
Abortion questions intensify in US courts, legislatures Dueling judicial opinions on the future availability of abortion pills could shake up the U.S. landscape The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2023
Conflicting rulings for abortion pill A bit of legal "whiplash" could occur in the next few days, one expert says Salon · Apr 11, 2023
Abortion drug rulings spur drugmaker worries about precedent - Roll Call Critics of a court decision banning an abortion drug say the ruling undermines the FDA's ability to regulate the drug industry. Roll Call · Apr 11, 2023
Abortion pill rulings in conflict: What happens next? The Biden administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court to allow women to continue to be able to access to the most commonly used abortion drug in the U.S. while a lawsuit over it plays out The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2023
Limiting access to abortion pill is costly for women of color Limiting access to abortion pill mifepristone could be costly for people of color. Fortune · Apr 11, 2023
A Texas abortion provider moved to New Mexico. Today, most of its patients are Texans DALLAS — Nine months after shuttering its Texas clinics, one of the nation’s largest independent abortion providers has opened a clinic in neighboring New Mexico. Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023
Judge Halts FDA Approval Of Abortion Pill As The Biden Administration Vows To Fight A Texas judge halted the approval of the abortion pill as the Biden Administration plan to appeal the decision in post-Roe Zenger · Apr 11, 2023
Massive Leak of Ukraine Intelligence Documents Angers U.S. Allies Plus: Evan Gershkovich charged with espionage in Russia, the DOJ appeals a Texas judge's abortion ruling, and more... Reason · Apr 11, 2023
Justice Department urges halt to abortion pill order: ‘Extraordinary and unprecedented’ DoJ is calling a Texas court ruling that would halt approval of the most commonly used method of abortion in the US “extraordinary and unprecedented” The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2023
Entrepreneurs launched startups to provide easy access to abortion pills. Now, the Texas ruling on mifepristone might force them to pivot Startups Choix and Hey Jane must rethink their business models after a court ruling threatens FDA approval of a common abortion pill. Fortune · Apr 11, 2023
GOP sadism proudly on display The abortion pill decision proves, yet again, that there's nothing "pro-life" about Republicans Salon · Apr 11, 2023
American women, let this be your wake-up call: it won’t end with mifepristone It doesn’t matter if you think abortion will be legal where you live – the anti-abortion movement wants a national ban The Guardian - US · Apr 11, 2023
Axios · Apr 11, 2023 GOP's push against abortion becomes a runaway train Backlash could box Republicans into defending unpopular policies in 2024.
WEKU · Apr 11, 2023 How an abortion pill ruling could threaten the FDA's regulatory authority A medical ethics expert says a Texas abortion pill ruling is unprecedented because a federal judge "standing in" for regulators could have far-reaching implications beyond mifepristone.
Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023 Julianna Goldman: DeSantis is playing the politics of abortion all wrong It’s one thing for a probable Republican presidential candidate to talk vaguely about how to “expand pro-life protections.” It would be quite another for an actual Republican governor to sign one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country.
Los Angeles Times · Apr 11, 2023 Editorial: Wisconsin voters made it clear they want their abortion rights back An unabashed abortion rights supporter won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court last week in a stunning 11-point victory over a conservative antiabortion judge. Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz’s defeat of former state Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly gives the court a liberal majority for the first time in…
Los Angeles Times · Apr 11, 2023 Commentary: Clarence Thomas, a billionaire benefactor and the Supreme Court’s ethics crisis On Thursday, ProPublica revealed that a right-wing billionaire has secretly funded a lavish lifestyle for Justice Clarence Thomas. Then on Friday, a federal judge in Texas tried to block the use around the country of mifepristone, the medication used in half of all abortions. These two dramatic twists are part…
Los Angeles Times · Apr 11, 2023 Commentary: A judge’s attempt to restrict medication abortion nationwide shows extremists aren’t done yet On Friday, federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk handed down a decision further restricting abortion access nationwide by suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, the most common and safe pill used for medication abortion. Another ruling, from a federal judge in Washington state, ordered the F.D.A. to make no…
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The Guardian - US · Apr 11, 2023 ‘We will not cave’: governors stockpile abortion drugs as access is threatened Massachusetts, California and Washington pledge to provide medication after a federal judge invalidated 23-year FDA approval
Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023 US seeks freeze on Texas abortion pill ruling, clarity on conflicting order WASHINGTON — The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court to suspend a ruling by a conservative U.S. judge in Texas that would block access nationwide to a key drug used in medication abortions — even as it sought clarity on a conflicting order in Washington state.
The Independent UK · Apr 10, 2023 Abortion rights groups condemn ‘reckless’ judge overseeing critical drug case: ‘Minority rule at its worst’ Advocates, providers, medical groups and drugmakers wrestle with uncertainty, confusion and frustration
The Independent UK · Apr 10, 2023 Some US states stock abortion medications after court ruling A handful of states led by Democratic governors are stockpiling doses of drugs used in medication abortions amid fears that a court ruling could restrict access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. Massachusetts has purchased enough doses of the drug mifepristone to last for more…