The notoriously right-wing Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld much of Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on mifepristone from late last week in an early Thursday decision that may prompt the Justice Department to seek relief from the Supreme Court.
The panel — comprised of two Donald Trump appointees, and one George W. Bush appointee — would let mifepristone remain on the market with FDA approval
Using the “logic” behind the supposed standing in this case, can’t another group of doctors sue because they will have to treat women burdened by side effects due to the lack of safe and effective treatments related to pregnancy termination?
Ok, let’s take a look at Viagra, maybe that has side effects and needs to be banned.
Yes, it’s the 5th, but still…
They keep playing with fire.
Good!! Keep that abortion issue front and center for 2024.
O/T
US Senator Feinstein will step down temporarily from Judiciary Committee (msn.com)
She said “my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee” and has asked to step down until she is able to resume work.
Thank you, Kate for making it clear the Appeals Court decision is a piece of mischief. Who are these three to 2nd guess the FDA? Insidious bs from these gop mediocrities.
US secrets leak ‘came from gun enthusiast who worked on military base’ (msn.com)
He shared classified documents to a chat group on the instant messaging platform Discord of about two dozen men and young boys who shared a “mutual love of guns, military gear and God”, The Washington Post reported.
Yeah! How many guys have died getting it up? They never tellya that, do they?
I did! and so did my dad.
Calm down, ladies. Even with abortifacients off the table, there’s still:
Most accounts of abortion deal with its voluntary practice, revealing often the lengths to which women will go to control their fertility in the absence of contraception. Yet, examples exist from both preindustrial and modern societies where the decision to have an abortion is not made by the woman alone but is influenced either wholly or in part by political or cultural factors. Women who want an abortion either have performed the procedures themselves or have sought help from community practitioners, friends, or relative. Abortion techniques are highly varied and include abortifacients, magic, mechanical methods (such as instrumentation, constriction, and insertion of foreign objects into the uterus), heat applied externally, strenuous physical activity, jolts to the body, and starvation. Although abortion is extensively and rather openly practiced in many primitive societies, few groups give it unqualified approval. Cross-culturally, the most prevalent conditions for either approving of or imposing abortion include unmarried status of the mother, adultery, ambiguous paternity, mother’s poor health, lactation of the mother, consent of the father, death of the father, rape, incest, and other varieties of illegal union. In Western civilization attitdues vary and have been changing in most cases. As of mid-1982, 10% of the world’s population lived in countries where abortion was prohibited under all circumstances and 18% in countries where it was permitted only to save the mother’s life.
"Rather, we hold that on the record before us applicants know that hundreds of thousands of women will — with applicants’ own statistical certainty — need emergency care on account of applicants’ actions. "
Where are the hundreds of thousands who have used the drug in the past and how much emergency care did they require?
This was a split-the-baby decision, although it looks to me like it gives the Alliance for Hypocritic Medicine about 80% of the baby.
I hope that Judge Rice comes back tomorrow saying, “With all due deference to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appalls, fuck that. This Court understands that sane, soundly-reasoned behavior combined with bat-shit crazy behavior from Texas and the Fifth Circuit places the government in an untenable position. But again, with all due deference to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appalls panel, fuck that (and the horse it rode in on, too).”
Absolutely. Make those god-drunk christofascists OWN this bullshit.
What they really don’t tell ya is what happens when the 4 hour time limit is exceeded.
The real bonus is this puts the lie to the excuse that Dobbs just gives states the right to decide for themselves how to deal with abortion. This 5th circuit decision clearly indicates a desire for a nationwide ban.
The court’s treatment of the Comstock Act on mailing is scary. Could the Comstock Act, together with a 1909 statute extending the prohibition to express services (UPS, Fedex) mean that interstate shipments of this pill AND CONTRACEPTIVES can be prohibited? Not just shipments to consumers, but shipments to pharmacies from manufacturers?
News Flash: Mifepristone is already illegal in Texas and a bunch of other states.