What A Day30 Mar 2024

The Pill That May Save Abortion Rights

Mifepristone revolutionized abortion access in America, so much that, two years after the fall of Roe v. Wade, abortions in the United States are up.

But now “Mife” is taking its turn in the crosshairs of the anti-abortion movement, facing a challenge before the Supreme Court that could cut off access to the drug. Can it survive this challenge? And, if so, would that mean the pro-choice movement is quietly winning the fight for abortion access in America?

This week on “How We Got Here,” Hysteria’s Erin Ryan and Offline’s Max Fisher tell the story of how Mifepristone became the anti-abortion movement’s #1 enemy and the new lows that movement has had to go to get this challenge before the court.

SOURCES:

Cover Up: The Pill Plot

Timeline of the Supreme Court’s mifepristone abortion pill ruling | CNN Politics

One in Six Abortions Is Done With Pills Prescribed Online, Data Shows - The New York Times

Abortion Shield Laws: A New War Between the States - The New York Times

Challenging Abortion, Again - The New York Times

Despite State Bans, Legal Abortions Didn’t Fall Nationwide in Year After Dobbs

Abortion Bans Across the Country: Tracking Restrictions by State - The New York Times

Abortion Ruling Could Undermine the F.D.A.’s Drug-Approval Authority - The New York Times

The many lives of mifepristone: Multi-glandular exaptation of an endocrine molecule - PMC.

A Political History of RU-486

NYT Archive: DRUG MAKER STOPS ALL DISTRIBUTION OF ABORTION PILL

The long and winding history of the war on abortion drugs

The Complicated Life of the Abortion Pill | The New Yorker

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