Justices Skeptical Amid Arguments Against Abortion Drug Mifepristone
The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to mifepristone, a medication used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S.
The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to mifepristone, a medication used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S.
Incarcerated people could sue jails and prisons if they encounter transgender inmates in restrooms or changing areas under a proposed bill.
Mississippi Sen. Joey Fillingane, the Republican who authored Mississippi’s trigger law that banned nearly all abortions in the state, is falsely claiming that a new effort to enshrine a right to birth control in state law will legalize “morning-after abortions.” But morning-after abortions do not exist.
Democratic candidate for Mississippi governor Brandon Presley would not have signed legislation that outlawed gender-affirming care for transgender minors such as puberty blockers, he suggested during an appearance in Flowood, Miss., at the Mississippi Press Association on June 16.
“LGBTQ+ Americans are under attack” and “living in a state of emergency,” the nation’s largest pro-LGBTQ+ political lobbying organization said in a statement this morning.
Mississippi’s two highest-ranking women leaders, U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, rejoiced over the weekend after a Texas federal judge blocked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, filed a lawsuit asking the Hinds County Chancery Court to block the State from enforcing a near-total abortion ban in the form of a trigger law.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade this morning, paving the way for states like Mississippi to restrict abortion access to a greater extent than any time in the last half century. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization immediately allows Mississippi’s ban on nearly all abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect.
A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the precedent that has underpinned abortion rights in the United States for 49 years, according to a leaked draft of a ruling Politico reported this evening.
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