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State officials also advised the court not to fast-track abortion providers challenge to the law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. ....
Supreme Court says abortion drugs can’t be obtained by mail A box of the RU-486 drug, an abortion pill known generically as mifepristone and by its brand name Mifeprex, is seen in an undated handout photo. (CNS photo/Danco Laboratories handout via Reuters) By Carol Zimmermann • Catholic News Service • Posted January 14, 2021 WASHINGTON (CNS) The Supreme Court Jan. 12 reinstated a federal requirement that women who are seeking abortion-inducing drugs must do so in person, not by mail, as a federal judge had allowed last year due to the pandemic and the high court had let stand. In its 6-3 order, the justices said women must follow previous Food and Drug Administration requirements that they had to visit a doctor’s office, hospital or clinic in person to obtain Mifeprex, the brand name for mifepristone, also called RU-486, which is used to end pregnancies during the first 10 weeks. ....
John casic signed a state budget including a slew of measures to require women seeking abortions first undergo ultrasound. restrictions that have closed many clinics in the state. as governors do, casich had a signing ceremony for his budget and ducked out immediately afterwards without answering questions from the quarters. wisconsin scott walker used the biggest news dump day of the year. that was the friday after the 4th of july this past summer. he used that to stage a camera-free signing ceremony for a bill mandating ultrasounds for women seeking abortions. in south dakota the state actually imposed a mandatory three-day waiting period on abortions for no medical reason other than to make women think over their decisions. not only do they have to wait three days. they have to wait three business days. you are not counting business days or holidays in that three-day count. who could dpoerth what happened in texas where legislation came up this summer to ban abortion after 20 weeks ....
Those laws are not yet being enforced. traffic, a federal judge called the north dakota law clearly invalid and unconstitutional. north dakota also passed a new law for doctors providing abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, a law designed to smut thaun that state another sole abortion provider. similar restrictions were announced in north carolina at the very last minute into of all things a bill on motorcycle safety. to require abortion clinics to have transfer agreements with local hospitals. they also meet the same standards a ambulatory surgical centers. activists held a vigil and the state s governor who had campaigned in 2012 on a promise not to sign any abortion restrictions offered those protesters cookies as a good will gesture and signed the bill. also this year, ohio governor ....
Out a total of 46 state legislatures controlled by a single party as the highest number since the second world war. red states, those legislatures have restricted access to abortion and contraception. in blue states, they ve expanded it. in blue states, they ve tightened them. most red states prefuse to expand medicaid a key lynchpin of the affordable care act. they added millions of americans to their medicaid roles. more than ever it seems the extent to which federal rights and laws apply to you depends largely on where you live, which state you live in red and blue, a dope divide that runs through america. it s very real. there can also miss some of the richness and complexity of american politics. the motivations of individual politician, the intricacies. ....