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SCOTUS Extends Stay On Texas Abortion Pills Ruling

Reuters reports: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday kept on hold limits set by lower courts on access to the abortion pill mifepristone in a challenge by anti-abortion groups to the drug’s federal regulatory approval. The decision to keep the matter on hold gives the justices more time to consider requests by President Joe Biden’s administration and the …

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Blue State Governors Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills

Axios reports: In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said the state “secured an emergency stockpile” of up to 2 million doses of misoprostol. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) requested the University of Massachusetts purchase around 15,000 doses of mifepristone which the state says will “ensure sufficient coverage for more than a year.” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) stockpiled 150,000 …

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DOJ To Ask SCOTUS To Pause Abortion Pill Restrictions

The Washington Post reports: A federal appeals court late Wednesday partially blocked a decision by a judge in Texas to suspend U.S. government approval of a key abortion medication but set significant restrictions on the pill that could limit access nationwide. The court’s order maintains mifepristone’s availability for now, although it temporarily prevents the drug from being sent to patients …

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Appeals Court Temporarily Overrules Abortion Pill Ban

The New York Times reports: A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that the abortion pill mifepristone could remain available, but the judges blocked the drug from being sent to patients through the mail and rolled back other steps the government had taken to ease access in recent years. In its order, a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit partly …

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DOJ Asks Appeals Court To Freeze Abortion Pill Ruling

CNN reports: The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to put on hold a judge’s ruling that could make a medication abortion drug unavailable nationwide starting Friday at midnight. The request, filed on Monday before the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, is seeking a short-term administrative stay as well as a long-term stay pending appeal on …

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DOJ Files Appeal In Texas Ruling To Ban Abortion Pills

The Huffington Post reports: The Department of Justice filed an immediate appeal following a Texas federal judge’s shocking decision Friday to pull the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion. The Justice Department appealed directly to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday night, only a few hours …

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Lawsuit Seeks To Block Wyoming’s Abortion Pills Ban

The Associated Press reports: Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming’s new abortion pill ban from taking effect. A group hoping to open what would be the state’s second clinic offering abortions filed the amended lawsuit days after Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed what is the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills. Absent court intervention, …

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WaPo: Trump Judge Appears Likely To Ban Abortion Pills

The Washington Post reports: The federal judge who could upend access to a widely used abortion medication pressed government lawyers in a hearing Wednesday about the safety and approval process for the drug, which has been on the market in the U.S. for more than two decades. While the antiabortion group challenging the drug acknowledged there is no precedent for …

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Texas Judge Schedules Secret Hearing On Abortion Pills

The Washington Post reports: The Texas judge who could undo government approval of a key abortion drug has scheduled the first hearing in the case for Wednesday but took unusual steps to keep it from being publicized, according to people familiar with the plans. The hearing will be an opportunity for lawyers for the Justice Department, the company that makes …

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CA Nixes $54M Walgreens Deal Over Abortion Pills

Bloomberg News reports: California will no longer renew a $54 million contract with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. following the drugstore chain’s decision to stop dispensing abortion pills in several states, according to Governor Gavin Newsom. The action comes a day after the Democratic leader said California would stop doing business with the company. Renewal of the contract to procure specialty …

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California To Cut Ties With Walgreens Over Abortion Pills

San Francisco’s NBC affiliate reports: California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed Walgreens in a tweet Monday morning, saying California would no longer be doing business with the chain and linking to a CNN story about the company not distributing abortion pills to 20 states. Walgreens last week announced it won’t sell abortion pills by mail to 20 conservative-led states. The statement …

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South Carolina Woman Arrested For Using Abortion Pills

The Columbia State reports: A Greenville woman was arrested earlier this week and charged with performing or soliciting an abortion. In October 2021, the then-33-year-old woman sought medical help at St. Francis Hospital after having labor pains, according to a Greenville Police Department incident report. A warrant for her arrest was signed in 2022, Greenville Police Sgt. Johnathan Brown said. …

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Walgreens Caves To More States On Abortion Pills

Politico reports: The nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain confirmed Thursday that it will not dispense abortion pills in several states where they remain legal — acting out of an abundance of caution amid a shifting policy landscape, threats from state officials and pressure from anti-abortion activists. Walgreens told POLITICO that it has since responded to all the officials, assuring them that …

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Texas Bill Seeks To Block Sites That Sell Abortion Pills

The New Republic reports: A Texas Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would compel internet providers in the state to block websites that sell or provide information on how to obtain abortion pills. The Women and Child Safety Act, which was introduced late last week, would require websites such as Plan C and Aid Access be cut off. It …

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Walgreens Caves To Kansas On Selling Abortion Pills

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports: Walgreens officials are not planning to distribute the abortion drug mifepristone in Kansas, Attorney General Kris Kobach said Monday, weeks after Kobach sent a letter to the pharmacy giant blasting their move to distribute the pill in pharmacies nationally. In the original Feb. 6 letter, Kobach said he would “not hesitate” to enforce Kansas law in …

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23 Republican AGs Back Suit To Ban Abortion Pills

The States Newsroom reports: Attorneys general representing nearly two dozen Republican states are backing a lawsuit that would remove the abortion pill from throughout the United States after more than two decades, eliminating the option even in states where abortion access remains legal. The state of Missouri filed its own brief in the case Friday while Mississippi Attorney General Lynn …

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Biden Admin To Appeal If Ban On Abortion Pills Comes

Politico reports: Doctors and advocates are urging people to pre-order and stockpile abortion pills while they still can in the face of a looming court decision that could wipe out access to the drugs nationwide. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, could either strike down the FDA’s decades-old decision to approve mifepristone — the first of two pills …

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20 GOP AGs Threaten Pharmacies Over Abortion Pills

The Associated Press reports: Attorneys general in 20 conservative-led states warned CVS and Walgreens on Wednesday that they could face legal consequences if they sell abortion pills by mail in those states. A letter from Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to the nation’s largest pharmacy-dispensing companies was co-signed by 19 other attorneys general, warning that sale of abortion pills …

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Iowa Bill Would Make Providing Abortion Pills A Felony

Iowa Starting Line reports: Iowa House Republicans would make it a felony to “manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell or transfer” abortion drugs in Iowa. Despite abortion being legal in Iowa until the 20th week of pregnancy, the bill would make it a crime for someone to provide the most common method of abortion in the country. The penalty would mean …

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Letter: 75 GOP Reps Demand Ban On Abortion Pills

Via email from the Family Research Council: As the Biden administration expanded the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs, 75 pro-life lawmakers have demanded the FDA take pills off the market altogether. “We call on the FDA to remove mifepristone from the market, or, at minimum, promptly restore and further strengthen the initial basic health and safety requirements for abortion drugs, and …

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