Takeaways from the 5th Circuit arguments over abortion drug access | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Probing why anti-abortion doctors have the legal right to bring the case A large portion of the hearing was devoted to the question of standing, i.e. whether the challengers are at imminent risk of suffering the kinds of concrete, direct harms due to the FDA's actions that make it appropriate for a court to intervene.
53% : The stakes of the case are incredibly high, medication abortion is the most common form of abortion in the United States.
43% : The availability of abortion pills, and how the US Food and Drug Administration has made the drug easier to obtain via telemedicine, have been a crucial tool for abortion providers in states whether the procedure remains legal, as their clinics have been overwhelmed by out-of-state patients traveling from places where abortion is illegal or severely restricted.
40% : The appeals court is considering whether to uphold a federal trial court's opinion that would suspend the drug, mifepristone - the highest-stakes legal dispute over abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
27% : Circuit Judge Cory Wilson, who was also appointed by Trump, grilled the Justice Department attorney on whether the FDA was obligated to consider how its regulations allowing for the mailing of the drug were making it possible for people in states were abortion was illegal to obtain the pill.

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