{"id":30,"date":"2026-05-11T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/massachusettsmovingnews.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:38:30","slug":"supreme-court-temporarily-extends-womens-access-to-a-widely-used-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/massachusettsmovingnews.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court temporarily extends women\u2019s access to a widely used abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014<\/b> The Supreme Court is leaving women\u2019s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/massachusettsmovingnews.com\/?p=28\">\u2018Spirit of freedom\u2019: Nearly 200 people become citizens at WMass ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s order Monday allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. It prevents restrictions on mifepristone imposed by a federal appeals court from taking effect for the time being.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Advocates in Massachusetts welcomed the ruling, but with caveats. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>While the drug remains available until Thursday, \u201cpatients and providers should never have to live in a constant state of legal limbo when it comes to accessing or providing essential health care,\u201d Claire Teylouni and Taylor St. Germain, the interim co-executive directors of the Boston-based reproductive rights group, Reproductive Equity Now, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis ongoing legal back-and-forth is dangerous by design \u2014 the uncertainty, confusion, and fear created by these court decisions are themselves barriers to care. The anti-abortion movement\u2019s goal is to make people unsure of their rights, their legal risk, and whether care will still be available tomorrow,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Dominique Lee, President &amp; CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, offered a similar sentiment. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFor thousands of our patients, access\u00a0to telemedicine and receiving\u00a0one\u2019s\u00a0medication\u00a0by mail is not\u00a0merely\u00a0a\u00a0convenience;\u00a0it is a lifeline.\u00a0They mean the\u00a0difference\u00a0between\u00a0receiving\u00a0timely\u00a0medical care or going without it\u00a0altogether,\u201d Lee said. \u201cTelehealth\u00a0allows patients\u00a0get\u00a0time-sensitive health care\u00a0while avoiding long travel distances, lost wages,\u00a0the enormous cost of\u00a0childcare, or unsafe situations.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAccess to healthcare should not depend on a patient\u2019s zip code, income, or ability to take days\u00a0off of\u00a0work.\u00a0Telehealth\u00a0expands freedom,\u00a0dignity,\u00a0and self-determination. It gives people the ability to make deeply\u00a0personal\u00a0medical decisions with privacy,\u00a0autonomy, and support.\u201d Lee said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The high court is dealing with its latest abortion controversy four years after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The case before the court stems from a lawsuit Louisiana filed to roll back the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s rules on how mifepristone can be prescribed. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The state claims the policy undermines the ban there, and it questions the safety of the drug, which was first approved in 2000 and has repeatedly been deemed safe and effective by FDA scientists.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Lower courts concluded that Louisiana is likely to prevail, and a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mail access and telehealth visits should be suspended while the case plays out.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/massachusettsmovingnews.com\/?p=26\">When is a culvert more than a culvert? When it\u2019s climate resilience in action<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The drug is most often used for abortion in combination with another drug, misoprostol. Medication abortions accounted for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. in 2023, the last year for which statistics are available.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The current dispute is similar to one that reached the court three years ago.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Lower courts then also sought to restrict access to mifepristone, in a case brought by physicians who oppose abortion. They filed suit in the months after the court overturned Roe.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court blocked the 5th Circuit ruling from taking effect over the dissenting votes of Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas. Then, in 2024, the high court unanimously dismissed the doctors\u2019 suit, reasoning they did not have the legal right, or standing, to sue.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In the current dispute, mainstream medical groups, the pharmaceutical industry and Democratic members of Congress have weighed in cautioning the court against limiting access to the drug. Pharmaceutical companies said a ruling for abortion opponents would upend the drug approval process.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The FDA has eased a number of restrictions initially placed on the drug, including who can prescribe it, how it is dispensed and what kinds of safety complications must be reported.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Despite those determinations, abortion opponents have been challenging the safety of mifepristone for more than 25 years. They have filed a series of petitions and lawsuits against the agency, generally alleging that it violated federal law by overlooking safety issues with the pill.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has been unusually quiet at the Supreme Court. It declined to file a written brief recommending what the court should do, even though federal regulations are at issue.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The case puts Trump\u2019s Republican administration in a difficult place. Trump has relied on the political support of anti-abortion groups but has also seen ballot question and poll results that show Americans generally support abortion rights.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Both sides took the silence as an implicit endorsement of the appellate ruling. Alito is both the justice in charge of handling emergency appeals from Louisiana and the author of the 2022 decision that declared abortion is not a constitutional right and returned the issue to the states.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/massachusettsmovingnews.com\/?p=24\">Brad Paisley to perform at The Big E, three other New England shows<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<header>\n<h2>More on Politics<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Spirit of freedom\u2019: Nearly 200 people become citizens at WMass ceremony<\/li>\n<li>GOP guv candidate Shortsleeve to Healey: \u2018No brainer\u2019 to suspend the Mass. gas tax <\/li>\n<li>Immigrant protection bills headed for House-Senate talks: What we know and what\u2019s next <\/li>\n<li>Trump criticizes Supreme Court justices over tariff ruling: \u2018Hardly believable\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Nonprofit sues to stop Trump\u2019s changes to Reflecting Pool, a historic site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court is leaving women\u2019s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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