temporarily blocked a lowe court ruling that would have restricted the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to induce a medicatio abortion, which is the mos common method of abortion in the united states. that means at least for th time being, mifepristone wil remain legal, and will be made available, according to curren fda regulations, where abortio is still legal it could be sent and receive through the mail, prescribed t patients by medica professionals over telehealt consultations, and can be used up to the tenth week o pregnancy. this is the first time that th supreme court has weighed in o the issue of abortion since th conservative majority decide to overturn roe v. wade less than a year ago. as is typical when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the majority did not provide an opinion t explain that ruling. not to be know exactly how eac justice voted, except fo justices samuel alito an clarence thomas, spoke of whom noted in the o
temporarily blocked a lowe court ruling that would have restricted the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to induce a medicatio abortion, which is the mos common method of abortion in the united states. that means at least for th time being, mifepristone wil remain legal, and will be made available, according to curren fda regulations, where abortio is still legal it could be sent and receive through the mail, prescribed t patients by medica professionals over telehealt consultations, and can be used up to the tenth week o pregnancy. this is the first time that th supreme court has weighed in o the issue of abortion since th conservative majority decide to overturn roe v. wade less than a year ago. as is typical when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the majority did not provide an opinion t explain that ruling. not to be know exactly how eac justice voted, except fo justices samuel alito an clarence thomas, spoke of whom noted in the order the d
[inaudible still legal, continues to be a option for people. one of the realities of th post-roe [inaudible] if the clinics that provid procedural abortions, as the i clinic abortion, are swamped and medication abortion become even more important fo [inaudible in lieu of [inaudible] we are at the status quo o [inaudible four people, but what th supreme court did last night was not make it worse. right if we were going backwards, we are not rolling backward for this immediate moment. in the opinion that he wrote for dobbs last year, justice alito wrote it was time to quote, return the issue of abortion to the people and elective representatives that s a quote from him. that is not exactly what s happening. to the extent there have been, there has been the ability o voters to sound in on th issue. there were five ballot measure last year, some introduced b people who wanted to preserv abortion rights. some who wanted to erode
again and it will wind up back at the supreme court at a late date joining me now is a room karma senior correspondent for new york magazine, co-author of th book, then the tories rpg, the life and times of bruce bade ginsburg good to see you. thanks for being with us this one is a little hard to follow for folks there was this ruling, then it went to the fifth circuit cour of appeals, then upheld part o the initial texas ruling then, it went to the supreme court, and two of the justices said they would have actuall continued to uphold some parts of it s a, where are we now as it relates to mifepristone? right now, we are at th status quo i think you re right when yo said - what s left in abortion access because the status quo is no good for the sauce of th country where abortion i illegal, except for very narro exceptions that are extremel hard to mifepristone, it is on the market, one of two pills [inaudible medication abortion, and we ar
it and in all five cases people voted to preserve them. , then we sought this election in wisconsin, which was also seemingly decided on the issue of abortion. so, when we re trying to decid this is about the people s ability to make decisions, that s not in keeping with wha these decisions look like. i think you hit the nail on the head look, some things also have to be left to experts the fda is not infallible, but it did evaluate dozens o studies. it has been for decades, safet profile for this drug. it is safer than tylenol the american medical association says a medicatio abortion has a lower risk righ that getting your wisdom teeth out, then a colonoscopy. so, i think the question is one, yes. states where abortion is legal and states that have had these referendums have shown overwhelmingly, for th democratic prophesy, tha justice alito says he wants to lead us to in the dobbs opinion, that they want abortion to b legal.