Results: Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion drug mifepristone
Published on 06/17/2024
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2qq1wqw3w2o
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The US Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an effort to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used in a medication abortion, now the most common method of terminating pregnancies in the US. The justices decided the plaintiffs, a group of anti-abortion doctors and activists, did not have a legal right to sue. But they left the door open to other attempts to limit the availability of the drug. Do you agree with the court's decision to NOT restrict access to Mifepristone ?
Yes
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No
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Undecided
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The plaintiffs, known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had argued that approval for the drug from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be withdrawn. But during arguments on the case in March, several of the court's nine justices sounded skeptical that any of the plaintiffs had suffered harm from the availability of mifepristone - which is necessary to have the legal standing to sue. "The plaintiffs have sincere legal, moral, ideological objections to elective abortion and to FDA's relaxed regulation," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the court, "but they failed to demonstrate" any actual injury. "A plaintiff's desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue," he also wrote. Do you agree with Kavanaugh's statement that they do not have a standing to sue? Yes
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Undecided
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