Abortion Pills Lawsuit and Alito Is A-Leaker
If you live in a blue state and still believe the end of Roe v. Wade won’t affect you, I sure have some news.
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If you live in a blue state and still believe the end of Roe v. Wade won’t affect you, I sure have some news. Beyond the fact that antis are already working on a national abortion ban for 2025, now they’re targeting medication abortion, via a lawsuit filed on Friday:
Alliance Defending Freedom, the anti-abortion group behind the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to reverse the approval of the abortion drug, mifepristone. Medication abortions accounted for 54 percent of all legal abortions in 2020. ADF is suing the Food and Drug Administration over its approval of the drug back in the year 2000 and wants the agency to reverse that approval. If that were to happen, healthcare providers wouldn’t be able to prescribe the drug to abortion seekers or people who use it to manage miscarriages.
ADF sued in Amarillo, Texas, in a naked attempt to get an ultraconservative Trump-appointed judge seated there. The appeals court overseeing Texas is the Fifth Circuit, the same one that let the Texas bounty hunter abortion ban go into effect in 2021. It appears this lawsuit will be barreling toward, you guessed it, the Supreme Court.
Speaking of that definitely legitimate institution! It sure looks like Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito—who called the leaked draft of the opinion overturning Roe a “grave betrayal”—leaked the outcome of a huge 2014 case involving birth control, an opinion that he wrote. That’s according to a bombshell New York Times report on the influence campaign waged by evangelical activists that led to some learning in advance the outcome of Hobby Lobby v. Burwell. The Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into Samuel A-lying A-leaker. Alito emphatically denied the report.
More things I wrote this (last) week:
Abortion Is So Popular, Ohio Republicans Now Want to Make Ballot Measures Harder to Pass
Anti-Abortion Group Advises State Lawmakers Not to Go After IVF or Birth Control Just Yet
Biden Says We 'Can't Expect Much of Anything' From Congress on Abortion
What I’m reading:
Women Aren’t Barred From Racing in F1. So Why Can't Any Crack the Grid?, by Emily Leibert in Jezebel :’)
The Left Won Big on Ballot Initiatives. That’s Why They’re Under Attack, by Benjamin S. Case and Michael McQuarrie in Jacobin
Arizona MAGA Boss Tried to Sink Fetterman. It Went Horribly, by Elias Weiss in The Daily Beast
Meet Sophie Ota, the Gen Zer Behind the Fetterman Campaign’s Best Memes, by Fortesa Latifi in Teen Vogue
Palate cleanser
Bye!