Access to abortion pill in limbo after competing rulings; CT officials says Texas decision 'has zero basis in science'

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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.
45% : The extraordinary timing of the competing orders revealed the high stakes surrounding the drug nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and curtailed access to abortion across the country.
45% : Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement that Connecticut joined in the lawsuit against the FDA in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington "to remove unnecessary and burdensome restrictions (such as requiring prescribers and pharmacies to complete a special certification process) on mifepristone access.""Abortion -- including medication abortion -- is safe and legal in Connecticut tonight and I'm fighting with everything I've got to keep it that way, and to keep out of state extremists out of our private healthcare decisions," Tong said.
43% : The law was seldom invoked in the 50 years after Roe established a federal right to abortion.
42% : Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone that has been widely available for more than 20 years.
41% : Republicans like to say they believe decisions about abortion should be left up to individual states, but that's a lie - their goal, partially realized by today's opinion, is to force the entire country to live by their draconian restrictions on reproductive care."
40% : "Millions of women - even in states like Connecticut where the right to abortion is protected - could now be denied access to a safe, effective medication that has been on the market for decades.

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