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2 years after overturning Roe, SCOTUS preserves pill that helps kill unborn children
The Blaze ^ | June 13, 2024 | Cortney Weil

Posted on 06/14/2024 6:57:43 AM PDT by Twotone

The U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled unanimously to keep a controversial abortion drug on the market even after the court ruled two years ago to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a group of pro-life medical practitioners and their organizations had sued the FDA for relaxing restrictions on mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in a medical abortion. The plaintiffs argued that these relaxed standards would "jeopardize women’s health across the nation."

SCOTUS justices apparently considered the case on technical grounds rather than on the ethical issues regarding killing unborn children and ruled 9-0 that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue the FDA. Writing on behalf of the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee who voted to overturn Roe, claimed that "federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing the plaintiffs’ concerns about FDA’s actions."

Kavanaugh did acknowledge that the plaintiffs in this case have "sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective abortion and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone." However, such objections do not amount to legal standing, he explained.

"A plaintiff’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue."

President Joe Biden — who has long supported unfettered access to abortion even though the Catholic Church, of which he is a member, considers abortion a "moral evil" — gave a tepid response to the ruling. "It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states," he said.

"But let’s be clear: attacks on medication abortion are part of Republican elected officials’ extreme and dangerous agenda to ban abortion nationwide."

Several outlets believe that Democrats view abortion as a winning issue this November, and recent referenda in traditionally red states like Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio indicate that Americans as a whole still support allowing women to kill their unborn children.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; scotus
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To: BobL

We don’t need to hand the Democrats more abortion headlines just prior to the election, but no doubt some IDIOT Republican Senator will do just that.“

Idiocy is not necessarily the cause of this. The scheming little prick Graham did it in 22 to kill the red wave. He knew what he was doing.


21 posted on 06/14/2024 7:22:39 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: null and void
The people attempting to bring the issue to SCOTUS did not have “standing”. Where have I heard that excuse before?...

Perhaps in 1793 when the Supreme Court stated that George Washington didn’t have standing?

22 posted on 06/14/2024 7:23:01 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: BobL

Maybe the plaintiffs should have obtained better legal advice before trying this approach that was unanimously rejected, including by the most conservative justices.

Do it right or don’t do it at all, else you end up with this kind of embarrassment.


23 posted on 06/14/2024 7:23:43 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Twotone
ruled unanimously to keep a controversial abortion drug on the market even after the court ruled two years ago to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The only thing those two issues have in common is 'abortions'.

One was a ruling, and not a law, and laws are supposed to be passed by congress and signed by the president. That ruling was easy to remove and should never have been assumed to be 'law'. If it's going to be law, let congress take it up and pass it.

The pill is not supported by law, and shouldn't be, and it's a medical decision which belongs outside of courts and outside of congr3ess. There are millions of drugs which are taken by people every day, and if all of them were subject to court rulings, the courts would not have time for anything but drug rulings, and most drugs might be banned, even when helpful. Vaccines would also be subject to court rulings, and then, millions of people would die every day because those vaccines were banned or put on hold or deemed unnecessary.
24 posted on 06/14/2024 7:25:04 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: null and void

Hint: If Justice Thomas says the case isn’t acceptable, it isn’t.

It is a bad idea to allow an abortion pill, but it is up to CONGRESS to ban it. Not a court.


25 posted on 06/14/2024 7:25:13 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Twotone

The two cases have nothing to do with each other.

Plus the doctors’ case was dismissed based on a lack of standing.

They are being told exactly nothing about the substance of their complaint. Only that they are the wrong complainants! No true (legally cognizable) dog in the fight.


26 posted on 06/14/2024 7:34:08 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Twotone

The USSC didn’t strike down Roe vs Wade over moral issues. They stuck it because abortion is not a Federal concern.


27 posted on 06/14/2024 7:42:11 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Twotone

China will make Fentanyl pills, stamp them with the abortion pill number, sell them on the streets, and murder countless women.


28 posted on 06/14/2024 7:43:18 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: Twotone

Abortion will continue until women decide to stop demanding it.

In our current system, that will be the only way it ends.


29 posted on 06/14/2024 7:45:41 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: Twotone

Well actually all the court did was state that the doctors who brought the case didn’t have standing, so there didn’t decide anything about the constitutionality of the drug


30 posted on 06/14/2024 7:53:01 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: thegagline

I was thinking more along the lines of no one has standing to question the Constitutional presidential eligibility for a possibly foreign born person whose father is the subject of another country.


31 posted on 06/14/2024 8:04:39 AM PDT by null and void (“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: Twotone

As I understand, SCOTUS didn’t rule on the case just sent it back down. Right??


32 posted on 06/14/2024 8:15:22 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Twotone

My preference is to minimize the Federal Government’s oversight in our personal choices. More generally, to minimize its size and power over us.


33 posted on 06/14/2024 8:17:12 AM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: Twotone

Murder Inc.


34 posted on 06/14/2024 8:18:32 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Twotone

Once again these fools do not understand how this works. The SC simply returned the right to choose to the states. Doesn’t depend on what the topic of discussion is or what party it “helps” ,their job is to weigh how much power to grant the federal govt. People should always be looking to minimize federal influence over their lives.


35 posted on 06/14/2024 8:20:57 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Twotone

Isn’t it funny how it was Trump that was “moderate,” pushed for what is basically Constitutional by putting it on the states (10th amendment), and was acting in a way that maximized the political will of the people while moral at the same time?

Trump was far smarter, far better a President than the MSM will ever give him credit for.

By going full anti-abortion, some Republicans / those playing the religious right can make gains in some small localities, but they are hurting the party and candidate on the national stage. Albeit, decentralization is a good thing in that the rules should represent the values of the people in that area. But that’s not how it works with some issues.

Abortion is an issue where the ship has already sailed. Most people do support this, to varying degrees. Not saying this is right, I am personally opposed to abortion. But as a realist, a pragmatist, I realize that a strict anti-abortion policy is just not the will of the people anymore.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/#:~:text=While%20public%20support%20for%20legal,in%20all%20or%20most%20cases.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx


36 posted on 06/14/2024 8:37:03 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Twotone
SCOTUS justices apparently considered the case on technical grounds rather than on the ethical issues regarding killing unborn children and ruled 9-0 that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue the FDA.

They considered the case on it's LEGAL MERITS, which is what they are tasked to do.

SCOTUS is not my religious leader, nor my ethics teacher.

It's is about time they stick to the law and the Constitution.

37 posted on 06/14/2024 8:43:28 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Twotone; All

Scotus should always rule on Constitutional and legal grounds rather than on what a Justice or Nine Justices consider Moral.


38 posted on 06/14/2024 9:19:45 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Sacajaweau

That is a birth control pill. I believe this was the “morning after pill” which provides a “double dose” of hormones that causes the body to think its time to start menses. It makes the uterus inhospitable to any fertilized egg.

Anyway, the ruling was on standing, not abortion. Just as Rowe was based on incorrect law (about privacy) and not abortion.

If our lawmakers really cared about this subject they would make law that settled the discussion. But that would cut out fund raising opportunities—just like immigration.

Relying on the Supreme Court to do the work of Congress is always a bad idea.


39 posted on 06/14/2024 9:22:51 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Twotone

The Law is not about Ethics, Morals, Feelings, etc. It is what it says it is specifically.
In the beginning a man listened to a woman and look where it got them. Today, we are doing the very same thing we have been warned about since the beginning.


40 posted on 06/14/2024 10:07:00 AM PDT by Racketeer
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