Democrats Brace For The Biggest Abortion Supreme Court Case Since Dobbs

[riversedge]

Democrats Brace For The Biggest Abortion Supreme Court Case Since Dobbs

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democrats-abortion-supreme-court-dobbs


By Kate Riga September 16, 2023 8:26 a.m.


It’s very likely that the Supreme Court will take up a major mifepristone case this term after the Biden administration and a manufacturer of the drug asked the justices to hear it late last week.

The case infamously originated in Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s Amarillo courtroom, where he ruled to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of mifepristone wholesale. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals later narrowed that ruling, but would reimpose onerous and unnecessary restrictions on the drug’s accessibility that the FDA lifted in 2016 and 2021. The Supreme Court stayed those rulings.

If the Court takes it up, as expected, it’ll be the biggest abortion case since Dobbs, with nationwide implications.

“The stakes are enormous,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), a longtime champion of mifepristone, told TPM.

That’s for dual reasons. Amid the current abortion landscape, prescribing mifepristone (usually in conjunction with the much less restricted misoprostol) via telehealth and delivering it by mail — procedures that would be banned under the Fifth Circuit’s decision — have proved a lifeline for women living under anti-abortion regimes.
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“This is a threat to abortion access for the entire country,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told TPM. “And a reminder that when the Supreme Court rolled back Roe v. Wade, it didn’t just affect people living in red states, or even purple states.”............

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[JohnSJ]

1. and why people like Nina Turner, David Sirota, Cornell West, Brihana Joy Gray, Susan Sarandon, etc,

should not be given the time of day, yet alone a forum to spew their bullshit

[leftstreet]

3. Who are half these people? Not mentioned in the article n/t

[RandomNumbers]

5. Those people bear great responsibility

for the current loss of women's reproductive freedom, bodily autonomy, and the reduction of women to the role of primarily bearers of men's children.

2016 was not so long ago, and it is the reason for the current make up of the Supreme Court.

[haele]

6. These people want to blow the Democratic party apart

Because they are comfortably situated and don't understand governance.
They believe that populists that talk a great game can just wave a magic wand and get policies they like enacted without any pushback from the real world.
Like most radicals, they don't understand that just throwing out existing systems instead of changing from within always ends up with some form of totalitarian dictatorship.
History may not exactly repeat, but it tends to circle, returning to similar views throughout time

Haele

[lindysalsagal]

8. Well said.

[wryter2000]

14. You nailed it

Someone told me some voters in CA voted to elect Reagan governor because he'd wreck things so completely people would never elect anyone like him again. We know how that worked out.

[wryter2000]

13. Nina Turner is the rabid ultra left loud mouth

Who called voting for Biden, "eating an sh** sandwich." Cornell West is the loudmouth who can never be satisfied with what Dems do. I'm sure you know about Susan Sarandon. I don't know what's up with Sirota for sure, but I suspect they're all loudmouthed ultra liberals who would rather have Trump back in office than vote for Biden.

[brer cat]

4. +++ nt

[betsuni]

26. +1

[calimary]

2. Woman as property.

And worse, woman’s insides are property of the state.

I HATE this!!!!!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

7. "Democrats brace..."

I'm getting real sick of these obtuse headlines. As if stripping American women of our rights and bodily autonomy is simply a partisan issue, and not a life or death concern!

I do realize however that the MAGAts making these "laws" will never have to abide by them.

Sarah Sanders just passed a law saying she doesn't have to publicly report whatever BS she's pulling while cosplaying governor.

I swear these assholes do NOTHING but fight for their right to hurt others. WTAF.

I'm so tired today.

[RoeVWade]

9. SCOTUS will have to lie to declare the drug unsafe.

Particularly in comparison to other drugs. But I wouldn't put it past the conservative side of the court to do so.

[Salviati]

15. Indeed. In fact I believe the only thing that would prevent them from doing so...

... is the knowledge of the massive political shitstorm that would result in banning it. Do they want to add fuel to the fire that Dobbs started, or are they going to try and dampen the flames a bit.

One way or the other, this decision will be 100% political, and not based in the facts of the situation at all.

[SouthernDem4ever]

20. They really don't give a shit

they have a lifetime job of fucking all of us.

[wryter2000]

16. They probably wouldn't do that

They'd find some legal reason the ruling takes precedence over women's lives.

[wryter2000]

18. Welcome to DU

Love your user name.

[Dave says]

21. Or SCOTUS uses some ruling ...

… from some Sun King 3000 years ago to justify further destruction of hard earned rights of citizens.

[Hekate]

28. Did you read the Dobbs decision? You really should. Alito, the medieval ecclesiastic,

…doesn’t give a damn about actual medical truth. The so-called conservatives on this Court are far-right theocrats.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. I fear it will be more than a federal prohibition of Mifepristone.

I fear the USSC will federally prohibit abortion medically and otherwise. No abortion in any state for any reason. And the only way to reverse that decision would be a new panel on The Court or a constitutional amendment -- and good luck with either.

[moonshinegnomie]

12. if that were to happen i except the states to tell the SC to F off

places like california and new york would ignore the court. let the court try and enforce it.

[CousinIT]

11. American women & girls are being reduced to livestock. Fed Society-packed USSC is on board w/ that.

No doubt how they'll rule.

"Brace"? THEY NEED TO CAMPAIGN ON THIS AND USE THE WORD 'FREEDOM'. A *LOT*.

People need to get off their dead butts and VOTE for Democrats who will enshrine women's full healthcare rights, including safe abortion, into Federal law.

Let that shitpile of a court "brace" for THAT.

[wryter2000]

17. They'd need to campaign on the issue

You said it.

Dems don't have to brace for this. It could be political gold for them.

Women and everyone who loves them have to brace for this.

[4lbs]

19. This might be one of the few rare times I am rooting for the drug company to win this one.

Danco Labs, which originally made mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex, is located in Manhattan, NY.


Now it is also made by GenBioPro in a generic form since 2019.


It is also known by the name RU-486 (remember that name?)

[BumRushDaShow]

22. This goes even beyond this drug

and to ANY drug the RW loons "don't like". And not just "drugs" but any product the FDA regulates including vaccines. And you know the first ones these "fake doctor" politicians and Justices would demand be "removed" are the COVID-19 vaccines.

[erronis]

25. I fear you are right. Let's assume they are against all vaccines

Wonder what the world would be like if smallpox, polio, diptheria, cholera, etc. were running rampant again.

Of course some of them have bought bunkers in New Zealand and elsewhere for when the world turns into an Oryx and Crake dystopia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx_and_Crake). I don't think it will turn out very well for these filthy-rich survivalists either. The global warming that they have pushed will get to them eventually.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. "Of course some of them have bought bunkers in New Zealand"

There are already bushfires that have started up in nearby Australia, anticipated to be worse with the El Nino ENSO conditions forecast for the rest of this year.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

[johnnyfins]

23. Expect some half assed ruling

That puts things more in limbo than they already are. Illegitimate courts make illegitimate rulings. If they come up with some word salad to ban mifepristone, fucking repubes will never win an election of consequence for the next 2 decades. SCROTUS can also expect to be packed. They have already gone too far. With rulings and their own horseshit personal behavior.

[Hekate]

24. KnR