U.S. Supreme Court takes up Texas case challenging abortion pill access

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The case was first filed in Amarillo, where conservative federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk sided nearly a year ago with anti-abortion groups seeking to move mifepristone off the market.
61% : The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, an organization of anti-abortion doctors, filed the initial lawsuit in November 2022, saying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not properly vet the safety of mifepristone before approving it in 2000 or loosening restrictions in 2016 and 2022.
61% : Last April, Kacsmaryk agreed, issuing an opinion laced with anti-abortion rhetoric, calling abortion providers "abortionists" and describing the medical procedure as "starv[ing] the unborn human until death.""The Court does not second-guess FDA's decision-making lightly," Kacsmaryk wrote.
47% : The 5th Circuit upheld Kacsmaryk's interpretation of the Comstock Act, leaving that as yet another area of unsettled law for the Supreme Court to weigh in on.
45% : Anti-abortion groups would like to see the Comstock Act used to regulate the mailing of abortion medication, but legal experts warn it could have much wider implications, potentially halting the mailing of anything medical.
43% : "In his ruling, Kacsmaryk also raised the specter of a 150-year-old zombie law, the Comstock Act, which prohibits using the U.S. postal service to mail anything related to abortion.

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