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To the editor: It would be laughable if it weren’t such a serious matter. Matthew Kacsmaryk, a federal judge with well-known anti-abortion beliefs, ruled on

The move, described as extreme by opponents, would prevent millions of women in the US from getting access to abortion care after six weeks of pregnancy. The White House accused Republicans of continuing their work to "dismantle fundamental freedoms".

Scientists have spent years studying the mental health of women who’ve had abortions. The most rigorous research doesn't support the claim that mifepristone use is psychologically damaging.

At the heart of the latest battle over abortion access is a federal judge’s ruling that cites concern about the mental health of women who choose to end their pregnancies.

In a 70-40 vote, Florida Republicans passed a six week ban, advocates say Black pregnant people will be hit the hardest.

“We don’t know whether those people remained pregnant, or got an abortion some other way,” reported FiveThirtyEight.

Here are six statements from the decision, which attempts to invalidate the FDA’s approval of the drug, that medical experts said are either inflammatory, inaccurate, or both.

“This is an issue Republicans have been largely on the wrong side of," said Nancy Mace. "We have, over the last 9 months, not shown compassion towards women."

Every lawmaker should be required to read The Turnaway Study, a preeminent ten-year study which measured 1,000 women’s short- and long-term effects of receiving, or not receiving, reproductive health care (<a href="https://www.ansirh.org/research/ongoing/turnaway-study">The Turnaway Study | ANSIRH</a>). The study provides current data and facts around the effects of reproductive health care, which lawmakers rarely, if ever, cite for their many reasons to restrict, or outl...

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk overturned FDA approval of an abortion medication with a ruling full of inaccuracies, legal and healthcare experts told Insider.