makers and dealers i ll talk to tennessee state senator, london lamar, in just minutes. and later, outfoxed? fox news hit with the bigges media settlement in the united states history, for helpin amplify donald trump s big lie i want to know, has fox news learned its lesson all of that and more, is comin up and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang for the next 25 days, millions of women across the countr will still have access to th widely used abortion pill, mifepristone the united states supreme cour temporarily pu o lower court rulings that put restrictions on the drug nationwide this means patients can stil access mifepristone, excuse me by mail, and use it up to te weeks of pregnancy as appeal continue to play out in th fifth circuit. but this legal battle coul take months or even longer joining me now is nbc news investigative reporter, chlo atkins chloe, good morning. thanks for starting us off conservative justices clarence thomas and samuel alito
take months or even longer joining me now is nbc news investigative reporter, chlo atkins chloe, good morning. thanks for starting us off conservative justices clarence thomas and samuel alito were the only two justices to publicly support keeping those restrictions on th mifepristone in place. justice alito went so far as t write a dissent. what was the reasoning behin his logic? good to be with you, katie. as you eloquently laid out, th supreme court moved yesterda to preserve the status quo which means mifepristone, that abortion pill, will remain widely accessible in state where abortion is accessible and a post-roe v. wade world while the supreme court ha preserved access to th abortion pill, alito, like you said, issued a dissent sayin the fda and a pill manufacture we re not able to prove they would have been harmed in th interim. and these regulatory changes made since 2016 would not have kept mifepristone from being accessible however, the fda and the pil