Lawsuits Target States That Restrict Abortion Pill Sales, Postal Delivery

Politico:
Pair Of Lawsuits Kick Off State-Federal Battle Over Abortion Pills

A broadly anticipated authorized battle over whether or not federal insurance policies supersede state legal guidelines started Wednesday with a pair of lawsuits looking for to cease restrictions on abortion drugs in two states. The challenges — concentrating on legal guidelines in North Carolina and West Virginia that block sufferers from receiving abortion drugs by mail or from retail pharmacies or ban using the drugs solely — will probably have nationwide implications, as greater than a dozen states have imposed legal guidelines limiting how, when and the place sufferers can receive abortion drugs. (Ollstein and Gardner, 1/25)

AP:
New Lawsuits Target State Restrictions On Abortion Pills 

The circumstances have been introduced by a North Carolina doctor who prescribes the capsule, mifepristone, and GenBioPro, which makes a generic model of the drug and sued in West Virginia. Whereas the federal court docket lawsuits goal particular state legal guidelines, they symbolize key authorized assessments that might ultimately decide entry to abortion for tens of millions of ladies. Treatment lately overtook in-clinic procedures as the most typical type of abortion within the U.S. (Perrone, 1/25)

Roll Call:
Lawsuits Show Focus Of Abortion Battle Shifting To Medication 

Of the three circumstances, the third — Alliance for Hippocratic Drugs v. U.S. Meals and Drug Administration — might have the broadest influence. In November, conservative authorized advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom challenged the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, citing considerations about its security. ADF is looking for an emergency ruling to drag approval of the drug nationwide. “If the FDA have been compelled to withdraw its approval that may imply that mifepristone could be taken off the cabinets nationwide and would due to this fact decimate entry to abortion to individuals throughout the nation no matter the place they stay or the legal guidelines of their state,” stated Jennifer Dalven, director of the reproductive freedom venture on the American Civil Liberties Union, talking in a press name final week. (Raman, 1/25)

Extra abortion information from Washington, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and California —

AP:
Washington Lawmakers Hear Testimony On 7 Abortion Bills 

Abortion rights proposals have been entrance and middle in Olympia, Washington, this week as state lawmakers heard hours of public testimony on seven proposals that may reinforce abortion entry. The emphasis on 4 legislative committees listening to testimony on abortion payments Tuesday was meant to display majority Democrats’ assist for abortion rights following the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s choice to overturn Roe v. Wade, The Seattle Instances reported. (1/26)

The Brown Daily Herald:
R.I. Abortion Access Bill Advocates Hope For New Success After Roe 

For the fourth consecutive yr, the Rhode Island Normal Meeting’s legislative session noticed the proposal of the Equality in Abortion Protection Act, which might make sure that people on Medicaid or state worker medical insurance plans obtain protection for abortion procedures. State Sen. Bridget Valverde, D-East Greenwich, has launched the invoice within the state Senate yearly since 2020, failing to get the invoice to the governor’s desk every time. (Sarig, 1/26)

The New York Times:
2023’s Biggest, Most Unusual Race Centers On Abortion And Democracy

In 10 weeks, Wisconsin will maintain an election that carries larger coverage stakes than some other contest in America in 2023. The April race, for a seat on the state’s evenly divided Supreme Court docket, will decide the destiny of abortion rights, gerrymandered legislative maps and the Wisconsin governor’s appointment powers — and even perhaps affect the state’s 2024 presidential election. (Epstein, 1/25)

Politico:
California Enacts New Abortion Laws, Expecting Copycats 

Nurses on the low-slung maze-like pupil well being advanced on the College of California, Santa Barbara work year-round to ensure the cabinets of their in-house pharmacy stay stocked with antivirals, painkillers and antibiotics for the tens of hundreds of scholars they serve. This month, they have been required to have two extra medication available: mifepristone and misoprostol — the routine that induces an abortion. (Ollstein, 1/25)

Additionally —

Axios:
House Dems Set To Introduce Bill To Allow Federal Funding To Cover Abortion

Home Democrats at the moment are set to introduce a largely symbolic invoice that may raise longstanding authorities restrictions on using federal funds to cowl abortions. … If enacted, “low earnings individuals, who’re primarily Black and brown, would have the identical entry to the total vary of reproductive well being care, together with abortion care,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), co-chair of the Home Professional-Selection Caucus and and lead lawmaker introducing the invoice, advised Axios. (Gonzalez, 1/26)

The New York Times:
Suspect In Arson At Planned Parenthood Clinic Cited Ex-Girlfriend’s Abortion, U.S. Says

A person accused of firebombing a Deliberate Parenthood clinic in Peoria, Sick., earlier this month advised investigators that he had achieved so after recalling an abortion a former girlfriend as soon as had towards his needs, including that he hoped the fireplace would delay others in having abortions, in keeping with federal authorities. (Ripka, 1/25)

NPR:
Do You Know These Abortion And Pregnancy Facts? 

Regardless of all of the headlines concerning the process, many Individuals have no idea fundamental information about abortions or who will get them, in keeping with a brand new NPR/Ipsos ballot. Take the quiz beneath — it has the identical questions because the ballot — and take a look at your individual data. Then, learn on to grasp extra about how the information connect with the abortion debate. (Benshoff and Harm, 1/26)