Justice Samuel Alito Falsely Implies Mifepristone Could Cause "Very Serious Harm"

[Nevilledog]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/justice-samuel-alito-falsely-implies-mifepristone-could-cause-very-serious-harm/

Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as “the biggest abortion case since Dobbs“—may cause “very serious harm.”

But there’s just one problem: more than 100 scientific studies show that abortion pills are safe and effective, as my colleagues and I have reported.

Alito made the comments this morning during oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone. The drug was made more widely available in 2016; in 2021, the FDA relaxed some rules around how it could be prescribed—including allowing it to be used through 10 weeks’ gestation and given virtually. The stakes of the case are significant, given that medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions nationwide, according to the Guttmacher Institute, and that telehealth abortions—in which providers virtually prescribe and mail pills—continue to rise, even in banned states.

In questioning today, Alito prodded at the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone by trying to explore the possibility that despite years of safety, there were hidden adverse effects not being tracked.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Fantasy thought by a fantasy-based jurist.

[dalton99a]

2. If he sticks it up his nose

[bluesbassman]

21. I would suggest a different orifice. And the efficacy wasn't in question here.

Why is he even bringing that up? I’ll answer my own question. He, like his partner Thomas, are sending signals to the troops on what they will rule for. He knows even his pretzel logic cand put lipstick on this pig, but “keep ‘em coming guys! We’ll get one I can pull a ruling out of my ass on!”

[catrose]

3. Why aren't these fantasists ever required to show proof?

[rpannier]

16. He has one of those lifetime appointments

He sees no need to concern himself with proof, facts, or evidence

[Deuxcents]

4. He wants to take us back to the 18th century where we didn't have the FDA yet

But where his mind resides..

[bahboo]

5. show us the evidence, fuckface...

[sinkingfeeling]

6. But doesn't think bullets fired from high-velocity

rifles may cause 'very serious harm'.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. That stupid, vicious motherfucker should be in a tent revival, not a court.

[diva77]

11. or playing himself, the devil, in the next sequel to The Exorcist

[B.See]

12. Plus side being he need no longer keep up

any pretense at having even a modicum of INTEGRITY. Nor do his MAGA cohorts.

We know them for what they are.

[Hekate]

8. KnR

[JI7]

9. I wish certain things will happen to him

[brush]

10. Alito and SCOTUS are now a national embarrassment...and the 3 sensible justices have to pay the price too...

for the loss of esteem and respect the court once enjoyed.

[SergeStorms]

13. Let the lies begin.

By the time they're ready to hand down a ruling, they'll be saying Mifepristone sunk the Titanic and caused COVID-19.

[Cheezoholic]

14. This SCOTUS lets idiotic cases like this into their court

so they can dispense methods to republican attorney generals of what arguments to bring back that the court will accept in a second go 'round. I'm convinced of it.

[Mopar151]

15. He's on the gas.......

That effluvia of the New Hard Right, where science is presumed to be full of lies and the meandering pronouncements of "science denial" preachers & snake oil peddlers are taken as proven fact! Boy, do we need some Supreme Court ethical and legal standards...... Like not being able to insert "phantom facts" into court opinions.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

17. "Paging Doctor Alito...Doctor Alito...."

[dchill]

18. Samuel Alito Could Cause "Very Serious Harm"

Fixed.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Alito's an idiot

[Irish_Dem]

20. He is a damn liar. And he knows it.

[DFW]

22. I'm not with the FDA, but I know what can cause far more serious harm, and, in many cases, already has.

That would be Sam Alito. Since Dobbs, his rulings have proved fatal in many instances already, and there is some serious calling for him to be removed from the shelves, er, uh, I mean, bench, that is, I mean, just REMOVE THE SON OF A BITCH FROM WASHINGTON. Send him back to New Jersey, preferably in a straitjacket and into a mental institution where all his evil ramblings can't do anyone any harm any more.

[NanaCat]

23. There's a higher probability that one of your priests

Is doing actual harm to a child, Scammy, but you'll keep heading to Mass every time the doors open up, won't you?