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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "It´s shameful that the Trump administration´s inaction has forced pro-life states to take their battle to the federal courts," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, who also applauded the ruling.
54% : Recent electoral results suggest that voters seeking to maintain abortion access have the political momentum.
53% : The ruling, which is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, requires that mifepristone be distributed only in person and at clinics, overruling regulations set by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
52% : One telehealth provider in a state with a shield law, Dr. Angel Foster, was working with legal experts to understand how the ruling would impact her organization, The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Project.
50% : There is little precedent for a federal court overruling the scientific regulations of the FDA, and it remains to be seen how the decision could impact how the drug is dispensed long-term.
49% : The unanimous ruling Friday from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marks a substantial victory for abortion opponents seeking to stem the flow of abortion pills prescribed online that they view as subverting state bans on the procedure.
49% : "The regulation creates an effective way for an out-of-state prescriber to place the drug in the hands of Louisianans in defiance of Louisiana law," Judge Kyle Duncan, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote in the ruling.
46% : In the biggest jolt to abortion policy in the U.S. since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common ways to end early pregnancies, by blocking the mailing of mifepristone prescriptions.
46% : It affects all states, even those without abortion restrictions.
46% : Surveys have found that the majority of abortions in the U.S. are administered using pills and that about one in four abortions nationally are prescribed via telehealth.
44% : Providers have suggested that its availability through telehealth is a reason why the number of abortions in the U.S. has not fallen since Roe was overturned in 2022.
43% : Since Roe was overturned, abortion has been on the ballot directly in 17 states.
43% : Voters have sided with the abortion-rights side in 14 of those questions.
43% : Abortion-rights supporter Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women´s Law Center, slammed the ruling as "deeply out of step with both the public and fact-based science.
35% : Murrill, a Republican, celebrated the ruling as a "victory for life" while other anti-abortion advocates cheered the reversal of rules finalized under President Joe Biden that ended a longstanding requirement that the pills be obtained at an in-person doctor´s visit.
34% : The case could again make abortion a key issue in the midterm elections as Democrats aim to take back control of the U.S. House and Republicans fight to hold on to a narrow majority.
30% : As a result, abortion pills and those who prescribe them out of state have become key targets of abortion opponents.
24% : Frustrated with a lack of federal action against medicated abortions, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill sued the FDA last month, saying its regulations undermined the state´s ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy.
19% : " Trump received criticism after the ruling from some anti-abortion advocates who expressed frustration that he did not take action himself to block distribution of the pill.

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