Posted on 06/18/2024 2:02:38 PM PDT by Morgana
The limited abortion-pill decision of the U.S. Supreme Court June 13 leaves major questions about the future of the drug unanswered, pro-life advocates contend.
The high court unanimously found in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that the four pro-life organizations and four pro-life doctors who brought a lawsuit challenging loosened federal regulations on abortion pills lacked standing — meaning they aren’t, in the court’s view, affected enough by the federal agency’s decisions to bring the lawsuit. But the court did not rule on the merits of their case.
About 63% of all abortions in the United States in 2023 took place through abortion pills, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion and collects information about it.
That percentage has been steadily growing in recent years and is expected to keep rising. This means that abortion policy is quickly becoming abortion-pill policy.
Here are four abortion pill issues that are still unresolved.
1. Safety challenges to abortion pills are still possible without the courts.
Supporters of abortion pills say they’re safe for the women who take them under current U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, citing studies, including one published in May 2024 by The Journal of the American Medical Association. Opponents of the pills sharply disagree.
In his decision in April 2023, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk questioned the FDA’s data, finding that the agency evaluated the effects of abortion pills on women who took them “despite the agency’s 2016 decision to eliminate the requirement for abortionists to report non-fatal ‘adverse events.’”
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As I have already stated, I believe they have purposely ruled the way they did, was to relegate it back to the states where it rightly belongs.
Don’t the pills just prevent the egg from working? Technically that’s not abortion.
I believe it’s a type of steroid that affects the wall of the uterus so that the zygote can’t implant itself. It is abortion.
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