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The Supreme Court <\/span>on Monday temporarily reinstated a Food and Drug Administration rule allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be prescribed via telemedicine\u00a0and dispensed through the mail.\u00a0<\/p>

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The order, by Justice Samuel Alito Jr., paused a ruling by the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that sought to block nationwide access to mifepristone by cutting off online providers. The Fifth Circuit ruling, issued Friday, caused providers, advocates, and patients to scramble all weekend to put in place contingency plans to keep abortion medication available. Almost two-thirds of abortions in the US now occur with pills, and nearly 30 percent take place via telemedicine.<\/p>\n

Louisiana filed suit against the FDA last fall, claiming that a 2023 rule change by the Biden administration allowing mifepristone to be prescribed by telemedicine was \u201carbitrary,\u201d \u201ccapricious,\u201d and politically motivated. The drug, part of a two-pill regimen that also includes the medication misoprostol, was approved by the FDA in 2000.<\/p>\n

Louisiana had asked lower courts to issue a nationwide injunction on the telemedicine rule and reinstate a requirement that abortion pills be prescribed and dispensed in person. The trial court judge declined to do so, but the Fifth Circuit, packed with anti-abortion ideologues, . The telemedicine rule \u201cinjures Louisiana by undermining its laws protecting unborn human life and also by causing it to spend Medicaid funds on emergency care for women harmed by mifepristone,\u201d the Fifth Circuit said in a 3-0 ruling. \u201cBoth injuries are irreparable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Monday\u2019s order, Alito granted temporary relief to mifepristone\u2019s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, and a generic manufacturer, GenBioPro, which had filed emergency appeals of the Fifth Circuit ruling over the weekend. Alito paused the case until at least May 11.<\/p>\n

Alito, of course, is the ultraconservative author of\u00a0the Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em> decision that overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em> in 2022 and ended the national right to abortion. Monday\u2019s order comes almost exactly four years after the Dobbs<\/em> opinion was leaked,\u00a0throwing abortion access into a state of turmoil from which it has never recovered.<\/p>

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As I have written, the Louisiana lawsuit \u201creflects widespread anger within the anti-abortion movement over the continued availability of abortion pills in the post-Roe<\/em> era, even in states with near-total bans.\u201d Louisiana, for example, prohibits abortions in almost all cases, classifies the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol as \u201ccontrolled substances,\u201d and equates abortion providers with \u201cdrug dealers.\u201d Yet every month, nearly 1,000 patients there are getting abortion pills from telemedicine providers. <\/p>\n

The case is similar in key ways to 2024\u2019s FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, <\/em>also from the Fifth Circuit, in which a coalition of anti-abortion medical groups and doctors sought to overturn the FDA\u2019s initial approval of mifepristone as well as the more recent rules\u2019 changes. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the doctors lacked standing to bring the lawsuit because they could not show that the FDA regulations caused them any direct harm. But the ruling left open the possibility that states might have standing to sue the FDA on their own. Last fall, Louisiana brought its own case in federal court, as did Texas and Florida in a separate lawsuit. A third suit, involving three states, is pending in Missouri.<\/p>\n

As I noted last week, the Louisiana case puts abortion on the SCOTUS docket at a critical political moment.<\/p>\n

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[T]he Fifth Circuit ruling suddenly makes abortion a huge issue in the midterm elections\u2014something Donald Trump has been hoping to avoid, says abortion historian Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis. Telemedicine \u201chas been why people in abortion-ban states have been able to get access to abortion,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s been the centerpiece of absolutely everything.\u201d Voters who have been showing signs of complacency over the abortion issue, thanks in large part to telemedicine, won\u2019t be complacent any longer, she says. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a major political pressure point.\u201d<\/p>

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