“The court found unanimously that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue.”
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OK, then who DOES have legal standing to sue?
The unborn I suppose. Legally this is the correct court decision as it should be left up to the states. I am against abortion but that must be within the construct of the system.
I agree...who does? Congress needs to pass a law that judges must say “who does”. I think a lot of times they use this because they don’t want to deal with the issue.
Someone who can point to some tangible harm they’ve suffered as a result of the availability of these pills.
"the federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing the plaintiffs' concerns about FDA's actions ... The plaintiffs may present their concerns and objections to the president and FDA in the regulatory process or to Congress and the president in the legislative process," Kavanaugh wrote.
Which implies that if a future president and a different thinking FDA decide to undo the regulatory changes in dispute, any federal lawsuits contesting that reverse scenario should also be thrown out.
Constitutional Standards: Injury in Fact, Causation, and Redressability
“Although the Court has been inconsistent, it has now settled upon the rule that, at “an irreducible minimum,” the constitutional requisites under Article III for the existence of standing are that the plaintiff must personally have: 1) suffered some actual or threatened injury; 2) that injury can fairly be traced to the challenged action of the defendant; and 3) that the injury is likely to be redressed by a favorable decision.”
https://constitution.findlaw.com/article3/annotation10.html
I suppose each state would-it would be part of each state’s right to rule on abortion, and that makes sense to me. When a bunch of women take that pill without medical supervision and some wind up dead or permanently injured, let the lawsuits begin against whichever state they bought the pills in-I’ll bet those pills get taken off the market before long in that state...