US court limits mail-order access to abortion pill mifepristone

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "In New York, our laws ensure that anyone who needs abortion care can seek it here.
50% : Friday's decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily reinstated a requirement that abortion pills be obtained in person, rather than allow them to be obtained by post or at a pharmacy through telemedicine.
46% : Mifepristone is the first of a two-pill regimen recommended by the FDA to end a pregnancy A US court has issued an order significantly restricting access to the abortion pill mifepristone by mail.
46% : It is widely available in states where abortion is legal.
43% : The decision, which stems from a lawsuit brought by the state of Louisiana, pauses a 2023 regulation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that allowed doctors to send pills without seeing patients in person.
43% : That has not changed, and we will continue to protect access to abortion, including medication abortion," she said in a statement.
39% : But Marjorie Dannenfelser, head of Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America, said the ruling was "a huge victory for victims and survivors of Biden's reckless mail-order abortion drug regime".
37% : "Every abortion facilitated by FDA's action cancels Louisiana's ban on medical abortions and undermines its policy that 'every unborn child is human being from the moment of conception and is, therefore, a legal person,'" the appeals court wrote in the order.
28% : The move in particular curbs access to abortion pills - the most common method of terminating pregnancies in the US - in states where abortion is banned.

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