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Recent Supreme Court Decisions and the Impact on Reproductive Rights
Recent United States Supreme Court decisions have delivered small temporary wins for reproductive rights. A unanimous Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the FDA’s rule for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills. On June 13, 2024, a unanimous court decided in Food and Drug Administration v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that the anti-abortion doctors and medical groups that challenged the expansion of access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medical abortions, lacked standing. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, acknowledged the challengers’ “sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections” to elective abortion and to the FDA’s changes to the conditions on the use of mifepristone. However, the challengers to the FDA regulation failed to show how they had been harmed, as they do not themselves prescribe the medication. The court further found that merely objecting to abortion and to the FDA’s policies are not enough to establish standing and bring a case to federal court. The challengers contended that having to treat patients who suffered complications from using the drug is a harm to them and similarly convicted providers in other respects, such as diverting resources, increasing the likelihood of lawsuits, and increasing insurance costs. Justice Kavanaugh continued to describe the speculative nature of the challengers’ attempt to establish standing. If the challengers could sue with this theory, it could open a dangerous door to challenge “almost any policy affecting public health.” More >
