SCOTUS rules abortion pill mifepristone can remain available by mail nationwide

Just the News ^ | 5/14/26 | Misty Severi

[CFW]

The Supreme Court decided Thursday to allow women to have access to the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth visits as the issue makes it way through lower courts.

The high court previously placed a pause on an appeals court decision that would block access to the abortion drug amid an ongoing lawsuit, which was set to expire Thursday.

Conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the order, which granted emergency requests brought by drugmakers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro seeking to block the appeals court ruling, per NBC News.

The case involves mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in abortions, and a federal rule from the Food and Drug Administration allowing telehealth prescription of the drug, and its delivery through the mail.

[CFW]

I don't see the Order on SCOTUS website, but I do see the dissents by Thomas and Alito.

[CFW]

Alito dissent:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a1207_21p3.pdf#page=3

Thomas dissent:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a1207_21p3.pdf

[ProgressingAmerica]

USPS should be abolished. There is no need for us to be subsidizing this or otherwise facilitating it with government.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What about acid?

[Responsibility2nd]

So much for States Rights.

[VAFreedom]

well, it might still be cheaper to ship a metal cloth hanger.

can we ship weapons thru the mail?

[Danie_2023]

I would caution anyone thinking of using this drug to consider who and what is providing the active ingredient in it... ie the ChiComs who are are biggest enemy on planet earth. Not safe. But millions will take it anyway, just like they took “the jab”.

“The finished product sold in the U.S. is not necessarily produced domestically. The active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) for mifepristone is predominantly sourced from overseas. China has been a primary source for the API since mifepristone’s approval in the early 2000s. Specific Chinese pharmaceutical firms, such as Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group (via its division Shanghai Hualian) and China Resources Zizhu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, have been identified as API manufacturers. This reliance on foreign API sources is not unique to mifepristone, with a vast majority of drug ingredients used in the U.S. originating from abroad.”

https://medxdrg.com/understanding-the-global-supply-chain-where-is-mifepristone-produced

[T.B. Yoits]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4379278/posts

[falcon99]

Thought states had the right to determine what was and wasn’t legal in their state — at least Democrat controlled states seem to.

[Celerity]

But I can’t order contacts without a recent prescription.

Thanks.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Let the money grubbing begin. The transnational rent-seekers are gonna pile onto this revenue stream in a rush. Someone on another thread accused me of "speculating". I KNOW so, how this rolls. Another whack-a-mole with shell companies and fly-by-night labs.

 

 

[butterdezillion]

Good question.

I tried sending my daughter a prescription through the USPS and they said they can’t allow any medications to be sent via USPS. But then that was in the middle of covid when they were petrified of the thought of anybody getting Ivermectin so their lives could be saved.

[butterdezillion]

Does USPS ship guns and ammo?

If guns and ammo come from a state with more 2nd-amendment policies, can they be sent via USPS to states whose policies forbid those guns?

Heck, we can’t even ship raspberry plants to CA via USPS...

[Antihero101607]

That was my thought, if you can ship abortion pills through the mail nationwide, then there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to ship small arms, parts, or accessories, state legality be damned. As with Obergefell decreeing that a marriage license is valid in all states, this should’ve also applied to concealed weapons permits, or any license for that matter, but it didn’t.

[thinden]

I saw a clip on tv today of some MSM news readers grilling on of trump’s people on whether or not he would try to outlaw “water abortions” which he said he’d never heard that term.

Well neither have I.

Have you?

I have my own suspicions on what a water abortion could be, but would like to hear from anyone who knows

[Coronal]

You also need it for this.

[little jeremiah]

Shudder, I don’t know what they are. I’m very disappointed SCOTUS ruled these abortion pills are legal. grrr

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m very disappointed SCOTUS ruled these abortion pills are legal. grrr

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And I’m very disappointed Donald Trump supported abortion pills though the mail.

[Brian Griffin]

Chemical abortions can cause dangerous bleeding.

[Brian Griffin]

quotes from an article I found online from a baby murder loving-organization:

Abortion pills are a critical option for people seeking to end a pregnancy, especially those living in US states with abortion bans who cannot travel out of state for care. In 2023, medication abortion accounted for 63% of all clinician-provided abortions in states without total bans.

In a disturbing new strategy, anti-abortion policymakers are attempting to weaponize environmental laws and regulations, citing false claims that medication abortion pollutes US waterways and drinking water.

The selective regulation of medication abortion through environmental law is a misleading and blatant ploy to stigmatize and restrict abortion access. This tactic relies on a series of baseless claims that range from allegations about dangerous levels of mifepristone contaminating the waterways and surrounding ecosystems to suggestions that the drug is present in drinking water

In 2025, anti-abortion policymakers introduced nine bills in seven states that use environmental policies and deceptive claims about water pollution to target medication abortion. These bills employ a variety of tactics to restrict access to medication abortion, including selective and arbitrary testing of drinking water and public water systems, liability mandates for pharmaceutical manufacturers of medication abortion pills, bans on telehealth for the provision of medication abortion, and requirements that individuals dispose of embryonic and fetal tissue in medical waste kits. While these bills have not been passed into law, they pose serious threats to medication abortion access and some will likely be re-introduced during the 2026 state legislative sessions.

Legislation introduced in Texas, Wyoming and Wisconsin contained provisions that require testing for the presence of medication abortion in water systems

bills introduced in Wyoming, Montana, Maine, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.... would have made manufacturers legally and financially responsible for cleanup, remediation and preventative measures if components of medication abortion are found in wastewater and other water systems

This past June, 25 anti-abortion members of Congress submitted a letter to the EPA with a list of questions related to mifepristone—including whether the agency has a method of detecting the medication in the water supply

Atrazine [a herbicide] is one of over a thousand known or suspected endocrine disruptors

https://www.guttmacher.org/2025/12/weaponizing-water-how-campaign-against-medication-abortion-co-opts-environmental-policy