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Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Mail Access to Abortion Pill

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Mail Access to Abortion Pill

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Mailing mifepristone is a matter of basic health care access, and the Supreme Court was right to restore it. Judges have no business overriding medical experts on what medications patients can receive — that's the job of physicians, not courts. The chaos caused by the 5th Circuit's ruling already had real consequences for real people, and unaccompanied immigrant youth in federal custody deserve the same reproductive health care protections as everyone else.

Mifepristone sends 1 in 10 women to the emergency room, and mailing it without medical oversight puts mothers at serious risk. The 5th Circuit was right to block a scheme that ships abortion drugs across state lines, bypassing the laws voters chose to enact. The Supreme Court's decision to restore mail access is a dangerous step backward — Congress needs to act now and ban mifepristone for elective abortion use entirely.


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