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An abortion-pill manufacturer dismissed a federal lawsuit yesterday, giving up its challenge to a Mississippi law prohibiting nearly all medication abortions in the state.
Karen Hinton argues that courts and perhaps the Federal Drug Administration itself should uphold and regulate the rights of women in any state to access abortion pills through mail. “Women and girls can no longer trust anyone with the consequences of a decision to purchase an abortion pill,” she writes.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch told a federal court last week that U.S. law already makes mailing abortion pills a crime punishable by up to five years in prison and even racketeering charges.
A majority of voters in Mississippi, the state whose leaders successfully petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in June, disagree with the ruling and support some form of legal abortion, a new survey shows.
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