The Supreme Court is being asked to restore access to an abortion pill by mail. Here's what to know - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "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 appellate ruling. ___
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.
51% : Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All, said providers are "in limbo" as they await further court decisions but can pivot to using just misoprostol for abortion care.
51% : "This is going to be a pretty significant change in terms of how people experience abortion access, probably as significant as anything we've seen since Roe was overturned," Ziegler said.
51% : " Recent electoral results suggest that voters seeking to maintain abortion access have the political momentum.
50% : The New Orleans-based appeals court's unanimous ruling Friday marked a substantial victory for abortion opponents seeking to stem the flow of abortion pills prescribed online, which they view as subverting state bans on the procedure.
50% : Abortion-rights supporter Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, said the ruling is "deeply out of step with both the public and fact-based science.
49% : 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 abortion access long-term.
48% : It requires that mifepristone be distributed only in person and at clinics, overruling regulations set by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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.
45% : It affects patients in all states, even those without abortion restrictions.
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.
42% : Two makers of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to block an appellate court ruling that cut off mail-order access to the drug just a day earlier, in what was the biggest jolt to abortion policy in the U.S. since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
37% : "We're now going to see, I think in a way we haven't before, what the nation will look like when abortion bans are actually in effect," said Mary Ziegler, an expert on abortion law and a professor at University of California at Davis School of Law.
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.
30% : As a result, abortion pills and those who prescribe them out of state have become key targets of abortion opponents.
25% : Abortion policy could come into play in the midterms The case could again make abortion a key issue in the midterm elections as Democrats aim to take back control of the House and Republicans fight to hold on to a narrow majority.
24% : Here's what to know: Impact extends beyond states with abortion bans Frustrated with a lack of federal action against medicated abortions, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill sued the FDA last year, saying its rules allowing mifepristone to be dispensed through the mail 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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