{"id":17,"date":"2026-05-19T15:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:40:48","slug":"supreme-court-indefinitely-extends-mail-order-access-to-abortion-drug-mifepristone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Indefinitely Extends Mail-Order Access to Abortion Drug Mifepristone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the chemical abortion drug mifepristone can continue being made available to patients through telehealth, mail, and pharmacies as the Court continues to hear a case involving access to the drug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=15\">Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling Had Small Impact on Minority Enrollment, New Study Shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>A lower court issued a ruling earlier this month ordering the Food and Drug Administration to bring back a requirement that doctors prescribe the abortion drug only after an in-person exam. Drugmakers appealed the ruling, with the high court placing the order on pause until at least May 11 while justices weighed the case, in which Louisiana has challenged the drug\u2019s expanded access.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Court\u2019s Thursday decision indefinitely extends that expanded access while the justices hear the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas argued that the drugmakers are <span>not entitled to block a court order \u201cbased on lost profits from their criminal enterprise.\u201d Meanwhile, Alito said the Biden administration made mifepristone available by mail in 2023 in an attempt to <\/span><span>undermine the court\u2019s 2022 <em>Dobbs<\/em> ruling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLouisiana\u2019s efforts have been thwarted by certain medical providers, private organizations, and states that abhor laws like Louisiana\u2019s and seek to undermine their enforcement,\u201d Alito added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Danco Laboratories, the maker of the brand-name version of mifepristone, Mifeprex, said the earlier decision from the conservative Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brought \u201cimmediate confusion and upheaval into highly time-sensitive medical decisions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Louisiana officials had argued that mifepristone poses too great a threat of complications, including sepsis and hemorrhaging, to be dispensed through the mail. The state attorney general, Liz Murrill, also says that mail-order delivery of abortion drugs <\/span><span>allows women to evade abortion bans. Murrill said up to 1,000 abortions a month are taking place in the state because of mail-order chemical abortion pills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pro-lifers have been left disappointed with the Trump administration\u2019s stance on mail-order abortion pills, with the administration leaving in place Biden-era rules allowing clinicians in states with lax abortion laws to prescribe and send pills to women in states with strict abortion bans. The FDA also approved a new generic version of mifepristone last fall, further angering pro-lifers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump\u2019s FDA finally announced in September that it would conduct a review of mifepristone\u2019s safety, months after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <\/span><span>promised<\/span><span> to investigate the drug in response to a bombshell study that found that the commonly used abortion drug is much less safe than advertised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A <\/span><span>study<\/span><span> from the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center found that almost 11 percent of women experience a serious adverse effect within 45 days of taking mifepristone, which is 22 times higher than the FDA label on the drug suggests. Serious adverse effects include sepsis, infection, and hemorrhaging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=13\">\u2018Taking a Chance on You\u2019: Judge Had Admitted Risk of Letting Boston Parkway Shooter Off with Light Sentence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Kennedy has floated the idea of having the FDA change mifepristone\u2019s label because of EPPC\u2019s findings. The study analyzed an insurance claims database with 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017\u201323, a sum much larger than the combined sample of FDA-cited studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Abortion advocates, for their part, have dismissed the EPPC study as non-peer-reviewed and have <\/span><span>falsely claimed<\/span><span> that mifepristone is safer than Tylenol and other commonly used medications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) has been a vocal advocate for the safety review, saying in September, \u201cThis FDA review of the abortion drug is long promised and much needed. Almost 70% of abortions in America are chemical abortions, and there are no meaningful safety restrictions on the drug currently in place. FDA should reinstate safety rules ASAP.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the EPPC\u2019s findings, the Trump Justice Department has asked courts to pause or dismiss lawsuits from Republican state attorneys general over access to mifepristone \u2014 including the lawsuit brought by Louisiana leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pro-life leaders who recently spoke to the <\/span><i><span>Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i> <span>expressed great disappointment and fury over the administration\u2019s handling of the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou have Republican states that are challenging a Republican administration over this because their laws are being undermined,\u201d Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, told the paper. \u201cPro-life voters are going to be wondering what\u2019s going on when they head into the polls in November.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, responded to the lower court\u2019s ruling that initially blocked mail-order access to mifepristone saying, \u201cIt\u2019s shameful that the Trump administration\u2019s inaction has forced pro-life states to take their battle to the federal courts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The White House defended Trump against the criticism, with a spokeswoman telling the <\/span><i><span>Journal<\/span><\/i><span>, \u201cSince his first term, the President has been a proven leader in the pro-life movement and he will continue to champion these policies to protect the sanctity of life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump is \u201cthe most pro-life and pro-family president in history,\u201d spokeswoman Allison Schuster said, adding that the FDA is conducting a review of mifepristone in response to \u201cwidespread concerns\u201d about the drug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=11\">Mamdani Announces First City-Owned Grocery Store Will Open Next Year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the chemical abortion drug mifepristone can continue being made available to patients through telehealth, mail, and pharmacies as the Court continues to hear a case involving access to the drug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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