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She says the effort to invalidate the abortion pill is part of an ongoing effort to take away freedom and a woman’s right to make her own decisions.

She says the effort to invalidate the abortion pill is part of an ongoing effort to take away freedom and a woman’s right to make her own decisions.

A goal of the Texas plaintiffs was to stop the practice of sending abortion medication by mail. Andrii Zorii/iStock via Getty Images Plus Jamie Rowen, UMass Amherst and Tami S. Rowen, University of California, San Francisco An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of […]

The Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone in the year 2000 for use in medication abortion up to seven weeks

The legal zombie may be unconstitutional, but that didn’t stop conservative judges from citing it in their recent mifepristone decisions.

The Comstock Act is the 19th century statute being used to criminalize reproductive choice.

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. An early April 2023 decision by a U.

Dead law, you know, the comstock act prohibits the mailing of not only just this one abortion drug , but really anything related to abortion, and that has a huge impact because so many women have been using. the convenience of the male drugs not having to go in person not only because of covid, but because its probably less stressful, so it has really big impact on them and as a court with the conservative majority, they have been increasingly non deferential towards agency expertise. i mean , t...

Recently, Texas federal judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk ruled in favor of plaintiffs from the Religious Right that distribution of the abortion pill mifepristone violated an 1837 law almost forgotten today, the Comstock Act. If you’re a part of the LGBTQ community, you would have seen this coming. We saw, first hand, how this outdated 19th century relic, mostly overturned by SCOTUS

A lawsplainer of THIS IS SOME FUCKED UP SHIT.