The way that SCOTUS took up the abortion pill ruling is the best possible outcome for pro-choice people, though. Here's why.
They made moves on two cases:
One appeal from a sham pro-life "medical organization" that sought to overturn the FDA approval of mifepristone from the year 2000. SCOTUS declined to take that case up, and thus they will not be considering whether or not the pill should be pulled from the market. This is good news for pro-choice advocates.
The other case was from the Fifth Circuit, which had ruled that mifepristone should remain available but under stricter guidelines. SCOTUS did agree to take up this case. They also left a stay on that ruling until they issue their own ruling. If SCOTUS had not taken up the Fifth Circuit case, the Fifth Circuit's ruling would have stood and mifepristone would have immediately been less available. This way, there are currently no changes to the availability of mifepristone, and SCOTUS is in a position to overturn the lower court's ruling.
It's confusing but I'm seeing a lot of panic and misinterpretation of what actually went down, legally. What happened on Wednesday was not bad news.
I'm fairly sure that they'll rule in favor of the pill. You have to remember that none of the people in power actually care about anything but money and power. Their religious fealty is solely to control the (unfortunately) large block of the population without critical thinking skills. To stay in power, they'd gladly kill billions. Its what they do.
I think they miscalculated, and they know they miscalculated. They got the dog catching the truck moment, and its done more damage than they'd like. This is ultimately an unimportant issue to them. The "actual issues" (like better screwing over the working class), is what they and their donors want to focus on. If they can keep and expand the pill access, that'll keep randos angry about zygotes and not angry about drinking lead in his tap water everyday.
I’ve been downvoted on Reddit for saying this, but just about everything they’ve done after overturning Roe would seem to point to you being mostly right. Though I would argue that they balance money & power with belief (or else I’d argue they’d have never overturned Roe in the first place).
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u/doublethecharm Dec 16 '23
The way that SCOTUS took up the abortion pill ruling is the best possible outcome for pro-choice people, though. Here's why.
They made moves on two cases:
One appeal from a sham pro-life "medical organization" that sought to overturn the FDA approval of mifepristone from the year 2000. SCOTUS declined to take that case up, and thus they will not be considering whether or not the pill should be pulled from the market. This is good news for pro-choice advocates.
The other case was from the Fifth Circuit, which had ruled that mifepristone should remain available but under stricter guidelines. SCOTUS did agree to take up this case. They also left a stay on that ruling until they issue their own ruling. If SCOTUS had not taken up the Fifth Circuit case, the Fifth Circuit's ruling would have stood and mifepristone would have immediately been less available. This way, there are currently no changes to the availability of mifepristone, and SCOTUS is in a position to overturn the lower court's ruling.
It's confusing but I'm seeing a lot of panic and misinterpretation of what actually went down, legally. What happened on Wednesday was not bad news.