Supreme Court Upholds Broad Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone

It would have been <i>wild</i> if they&#x27;d let this one continue with standing, since this is the case where the people suing were a bunch of anti-abortion doctors whose argument for how they were harmed was that they might hypothetically have to treat a patient whose abortion had caused complications. They didn&#x27;t give any examples of this having happened. The remedy they wanted was that nobody should be allowed to use or prescribe this drug.

Note that the court didn&#x27;t decide the case on its merits; they said the parties had a lack of standing.

This was a long shot for the plaintiffs, even with this SC, because a ruling for them would have “fucked with the money” in a big way.<p>[edit] not to say this drug is safe from court interference, but they’ll need an angle of attack that doesn’t result in enormous amounts of risk for <i>all</i> drug makers of <i>all</i> drugs if they win—I’m not sure how they’ll manage that.

Link to decision: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;23pdf&#x2F;23-235_n7ip.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;23pdf&#x2F;23-235_n7ip.pdf</a>

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Why did the Supreme Court accept the case in the first place, it&#x27;s a bit confusing. I guess they are signaling that they are willing to ban abortion drugs if a proper case comes up?

John Oliver still has a million dollars and a brand new luxury RV for Judge Thomas should he so choose to do the honorable thing.<p>Also, Judge Alito should resign given his inability to remain impartial and desire for a Christian theocracy in violation the 1st. a. What a disgrace.

Why is a news article about a 44 year old drug on Hacker News?<p>As far as I can tell this isn&#x27;t about tech, tech policy, a new medication, a new discovery about an old medication, science, etc. Seems like its just fodder for a political debate that is unrelated to this site.<p>Instead of politicizing HN, why don&#x27;t you just toot this to your echo chamber on Mastodon?