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SCOTUS upholds abortion pill access — for now
The court didn’t decide on the merits, ruling instead that the plaintiffs didn’t have standing.
“The plaintiffs have sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective abortion and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion issued Thursday. In 2022 — after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade — a newly established group that called itself the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) challenged the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, the federal judge presiding over the case — who hears all civil suits filed in Amarillo and who had been appointed by then-President Donald Trump — ruled in favor of AHM in 2023, calling abortion providers “abortionists” in his decision to take mifepristone off the market.
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