In their zeal to create a de facto national abortion ban, anti–abortion rights groups are claiming that medications like mifepristone poison the water supply.
mifepristone
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Mifepristone Wars—and What They Mean for Black Women
Still concentrated in Southern states that ban abortion, Black women disproportionately rely on telehealth, which the Supreme Court has allowed—provisionally—to continue.
Posted inLaw and Justice
History Teaches: Reproductive Rights and Equality
A court in Pennsylvania gets it right, and the Fifth Circuit gets it wrong.
Posted inTAP
The Mifepristone Ruling Revives Pro-Choice Politics
A federal court’s ban on the mailing of abortion medication once again demonstrates the unpopularity of anti-abortion zealotry.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
New Jersey Continues to Add Abortion Protections
State reproductive rights advocates view a stockpile as one of a number of ways to protect access.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Family Providers Face Barriers to Adding Abortion Services
Malpractice insurance companies have piled on numerous restrictions and jacked up their rates. It’s become a new form of restricting access to abortion.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case
Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Truth About the Comstock Act
The anti-obscenity law is unenforceable and probably unconstitutional. Conservatives still want to use it to ban medication abortions.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Stirrings of a Conservative Christian Rule of Law
The court case involving the FDA approval of mifepristone revealed a little too much about the conservative movement’s aims.