Supreme Court Denies Bid To Ban Abortion Drug Mifepristone
The Supreme Court finally released their opinion regarding the legality of access to mifepristone, one of the drugs used in 2/3 of abortions nationwide. For now, the drug remains legal and available - not because they support it, though. Rather it is because the case was brought by doctors and dentists who "lack standing."
Lacking standing means "the party cannot show harm, the party does not have standing and is not the right party to be appearing before the court."
The hearing did not go well for the far right justices, who appeared to lack a fundamental understanding of the science behind it all.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to limit access to a widely used abortion medication, rejecting a challenge from antiabortion doctors two years after the court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade on procedural grounds.
In a unanimous ruling, the court sided with the Biden administration and the manufacturer of mifepristone and reversed a lower court decision that would have made it more difficult to obtain the drug used in more than 60 percent of U.S. abortions. The ruling was not on the substance of the case, but on a procedural ruling that the plaintiffs did not have legal grounds to bring the case.