Access to abortion pill in limbo after competing rulings - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : His order also agreed with plaintiffs in invoking a controversial 19th century law that anti-abortion groups are now trying to revive to block sending abortion medications through the mail.
49% : Anti-abortion groups, which are newly encouraged about their ability to further restrict abortion and prevail in court since last's year's reversal of Roe v. Wade, embraced the Texas ruling.
44% : The extraordinary timing of the competing orders revealed the high stakes surrounding the drug nearly a year after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and curtailed access to abortion across the country.
43% : The law was seldom invoked in the 50 years after Roe established a federal right to abortion.

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