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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/justice-samuel-alito-falsely-implies-mifepristone-could-cause-very-serious-harm/Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristoneone of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as the biggest abortion case since Dobbsmay cause very serious harm.
But theres just one problem: more than 100 scientific studies show that abortion pills are safe and effective, as my colleagues and I have reported.
Alito made the comments this morning during oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone. The drug was made more widely available in 2016; in 2021, the FDA relaxed some rules around how it could be prescribedincluding allowing it to be used through 10 weeks gestation and given virtually. The stakes of the case are significant, given that medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions nationwide, according to the Guttmacher Institute, and that telehealth abortionsin which providers virtually prescribe and mail pillscontinue to rise, even in banned states.
In questioning today, Alito prodded at the FDAs regulation of mifepristone by trying to explore the possibility that despite years of safety, there were hidden adverse effects not being tracked.
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OAITW r.2.0
(24,759 posts)dalton99a
(81,700 posts)bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)Why is he even bringing that up? Ill answer my own question. He, like his partner Thomas, are sending signals to the troops on what they will rule for. He knows even his pretzel logic cand put lipstick on this pig, but keep em coming guys! Well get one I can pull a ruling out of my ass on!
catrose
(5,079 posts)rpannier
(24,350 posts)He sees no need to concern himself with proof, facts, or evidence
Deuxcents
(16,441 posts)But where his mind resides..
bahboo
(16,387 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,493 posts)rifles may cause 'very serious harm'.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,546 posts)diva77
(7,676 posts)B.See
(1,344 posts)any pretense at having even a modicum of INTEGRITY. Nor do his MAGA cohorts.
We know them for what they are.
JI7
(89,286 posts)brush
(53,971 posts)for the loss of esteem and respect the court once enjoyed.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)By the time they're ready to hand down a ruling, they'll be saying Mifepristone sunk the Titanic and caused COVID-19.
Cheezoholic
(2,046 posts)so they can dispense methods to republican attorney generals of what arguments to bring back that the court will accept in a second go 'round. I'm convinced of it.
Mopar151
(10,006 posts)That effluvia of the New Hard Right, where science is presumed to be full of lies and the meandering pronouncements of "science denial" preachers & snake oil peddlers are taken as proven fact! Boy, do we need some Supreme Court ethical and legal standards...... Like not being able to insert "phantom facts" into court opinions.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,838 posts)dchill
(38,609 posts)Fixed.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,429 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,825 posts)DFW
(54,502 posts)That would be Sam Alito. Since Dobbs, his rulings have proved fatal in many instances already, and there is some serious calling for him to be removed from the shelves, er, uh, I mean, bench, that is, I mean, just REMOVE THE SON OF A BITCH FROM WASHINGTON. Send him back to New Jersey, preferably in a straitjacket and into a mental institution where all his evil ramblings can't do anyone any harm any more.
NanaCat
(1,502 posts)Is doing actual harm to a child, Scammy, but you'll keep heading to Mass every time the doors open up, won't you?