Abortion Opponents Shift Focus To Pills With Lawsuits, Proposed Laws And Possible Federal Action

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Source: Huff Post/AP

Dec 23, 2024, 07:23 AM EST


Opponents of abortion are increasingly focusing on restricting access to pills, which are the most common way to end a pregnancy in the U.S.

This month, the Texas attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor, saying she violated Texas law by prescribing abortion pills to a patient there via telemedicine. The suit represents the first lawsuit of its kind and could lead to a legal test for the New York law designed to protect providers there who prescribe the drugs to patients in states with abortion bans.

Anti-abortion officials are taking other steps, too, through legislation and lawsuits. Abortion rights advocates are also concerned that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration could take action to restrict access if it chose to.

By the time the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and opened the door for states to ban abortion, over half of all abortions were obtained using medication, usually a combination of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-abortion-opponents-pills_n_6769559ce4b0663e2e53595f

[BOSSHOG]

1. If conservatives banned abortion

They’d have more reasons to withhold funding for pediatric cancer treatment and more reasons to defund nutritional food programs for children. Conservative values.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. More women will die. Fucking lunatics who vote GOP are morons.

[Trueblue Texan]

3. Some sexy, fertile woman should seduce one of those monsters in Texas...

...get knocked up and find out how much they believe in abortion then take it to Propublica. Wouldn't that be entertaining? But the poor baby in the middle of it--you'd have to be a monster to go through with it. Fire with fire.