US Supreme Court Votes 7-2 to Protect Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone

Jack Bingham : Apr 24, 2023
LifeSiteNews.com

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were the dissenting voices.

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] After pushing back its decision earlier in the week, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled Friday to, at least temporarily, preserve access to abortion-inducing pill mifepristone as a lawsuit against the drug works its way through the federal court system. (Image: Pixabay)

The pro-abortion ruling, which was not explained, was decided in a 7-2 vote, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito as the dissenting voices.

The case reached the nation's highest court after US District Judge Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on April 7 in Amarillo, Texas issued an order suspending the US Food & Drug Administration's (FDA's) approval of mifepristone, finding the agency did not adequately investigate its long-term effects. The same day, US District Judge Thomas Rice ruled in Spokane, Washington that the pill should remain on the market in 15 states plus the District of Columbia.

The Biden administration challenged the ruling, and a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals partially blocked Kacsmaryk's decision, ruling that mifepristone should remain available but keeping suspended the administration's approval of dispensing it via the mail. The administration then asked the nation's highest court to step in.

Despite widespread accessibility, evidence shows that abortion pills carry specific risks for the mothers who take them (on top of being lethal to their preborn children), especially when the standards for taking them continue to be relaxed.

A 2020 open letter from a coalition of pro-life groups to then-FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn noted that the FDA's own adverse reporting system says the "abortion pill has resulted in over 4,000 reported adverse events since 2000, including 24 maternal deaths. Adverse events are notoriously underreported to the FDA, and as of 2016, the FDA only requires abortion pill manufacturers to report maternal deaths."

Pro-lifers warn that with the Biden administration completely eliminating requirements that abortion pills be taken under any medical supervision or with medical support close by, those events are certain to increase... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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