Jessica Mason Pieklo | abortion-news.info

A federal judge citing the Purvi Patel case as part of his crusade to declare mifepristone unsafe and remove it from the market nationally is alarming.

APR 26, 2023
JESSICA MASON PIEKLO, Rewire News

The Supreme Court granted a reprieve in the far-right’s fight to upend medication abortion access—for now.

The Court on Friday stayed the order U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk had issued earlier in the month from Amarillo, Texas that purported to pull FDA approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions. By putting a hold on Kacsmaryk’s lawless order, the Court has maintained the status quo regarding mifepristone access. That means it will be months, if not longer, before anti-abortion advocates will be able to weaponize the courts in their bid to restrict, if not remove entirely, access to the drug.

Continued: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/04/26/the-war-on-drugs-isnt-coming-for-abortion-pills-its-already-here/

Anti-Choice State Lawmakers Want to Criminalize Abortion Through Nullification
States have largely relied on nullification to uphold white supremacist and patriarchal systems.

Mar 9, 2020
Jessica Madris

Since the start of the new year, anti-choice state legislators have introduced bills to abolish abortion in their states by invalidating—or nullifying—federal law. If the decades since Roe v. Wade were about chiseling away at abortion access, these bills are now going for the jugular.

Meanwhile, some Republican lawmakers are attempting to criminalize abortion in their states—domestic terrorist Washington Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane Valley) and Idaho Rep. Heather Scott (R-Blanchard), who has defended white nationalists, are trying for the second time—by combining fetal personhood with the Confederate-era theory of nullification.

Continued: https://rewire.news/article/2020/03/09/anti-choice-state-lawmakers-want-to-criminalize-abortion-through-nullification/