Supreme Court Extends Pause, Allowing Telehealth and Mail-Order Access of Abortion Pill to Continue
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
The Supreme Court extended a pause that blocked the mail-order of Mifepristone, an abortion drug, “stayed pending disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought.”
The majority did not provide an explanation.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito penned dissents.
SCOTUS issued a temporary pause on May 4, a few days after the 5th Circuit blocked telehealth and mail-order access nationwide while the lawsuit was pending.
In 2023, President Joe Biden’s FDA removed the in-person requirement to receive Mifepristone, allowing doctors to prescribe it via telehealth/online and delivered by mail.
Notice the date? Yes, the decision came after SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade.
Louisiana sued, claiming that the FDA based its decision on “flawed or nonexistent data” and that it harmed the state’s sovereignty.
Louisiana prohibits abortions except to save the life of the mother, medically futile pregnancies, or ectopic pregnancies.
In other words, the FDA’s decision violates Louisiana’s law.
Thomas mentioned the Comstock Act from 1873, which bans mailing or shipping contraceptives and any devices or medications that cause an abortion.
“Applicants are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise,” wrote Thomas. “They cannot, in any legally relevant sense, be irreparably harmed by a court order that makes it more difficult for them to commit crimes.”
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I’m sure all the babies to be would agree that delaying mail order abortions would be unjust if in fact they had been allowed to live.
That should read “extended a pause on a circuit court order that blocked…”.
Yes, the Supreme Court stepped in to SAVE the sales.
Maybe we should leave the issue alone and allow the Leftists to kill their unborn children.
Maybe we should leave the issue alone and allow the Leftists to kill themselves and their unborn children.
Fixed that for you since you forgot that there can be serious and deadly consequences when mifepristone is misused to induce an abortion.
I’m surprised the drug is still on the market, given the deaths that occur from it, if the drug was for anything other than abortion it would have been. they took an arthritis drug off the market because they thought it caused heart attacks, even though the people taken it had good result from the disease.
It seems right to me. A state can’t regulate what people outside the state do.
I’m surprised at the dissent.
Really? Now apply that to firearms. Try and buy a standard AR-15 with 20 round magazines in California online. It doesn’t matter that the seller is outside the state.
Apply that to state sales taxes.
We need to pack the court!
come on lefty
swallow those pills like you do the dnc kool-aid
People shouldn’t read too much into this. It paused an opinion to allow it to go though the system.
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