Law Dork Video: Cohen, Donley, and Rebouché discuss the upcoming mifeprisone and EMTALA arguments at SCOTUS, as well as what other reproductive rights issues they're watching.
Speaking as a family doc I find these law review articles to be both medically and legally sophisticated, clear and detailed. They tease apart nuances and details which define a basic human condition -pregnancy - and its complications, intended or not. It is very sad that neither the pro-life advocates nor the courts have any empathy for this basic human condition, its frequent complications, and the women who tragically suffer through them.
The otherwise excellent law review article on "Abortion Pills" observes that "Mifepristone, the only drug approved by the FDA to end a pregnancy, is more expensive and difficult to obtain than misoprostol.(28) This is largely due to the agency’s imposition of strict controls on the drug.(29)" However, the review neglects mention that the FDA's strict controls were never instituted and maintained for scientific or clinical reasons, but to accommodate religious and political opposition to its very approval.
Unless the Biden Administration and Democrats push back more vehemently against these Supreme Court decisions we are in for a lot worse. Simply acknowledging that nothing more can be done because the Court has ruled isn't enough. Our Constitution is supposed to create a system of checks and balances, not court rule. Unless Biden questions the legitimacy of *this* Court, insists that women will die because of its decisions and that the majority stand completely outside American public opinion, it's going to continue. Non-compliance should be threatened as one option.
It’s worth reflecting that there was never a solid political majority for abortion rights in either party until quite recently, and there may still not be a working majority for abortion rights among health care leaders.
The signs are obvious. Declining to repeal that one section of Comstock was and is a choice. The federal ban on funding abortion was and is a choice. Refusing to provide abortions as part of routine care at hospitals and doctors’ offices, thereby shunting the procedure off to a ghettoized network of “abortion clinics,” was and is one hell of a choice.
I think there has been a popular majority for abortion rights for a long time. But not among the patriarchy of political and medical leaders.
Help! Get me out of this evil alternative reality. I spent the last 50 years thinking women had won big with Roe v. Wade. Guess their motto is “we were only kidding, you dumb b..ches.”
Ok, I’ll put my armor back on (even if it’s too snug) and see if I can I can swing my metaphorical sword. I’m 70 but I’m still in the fight for Equal Rights.
If Republicans win the election there will most likely be an executive order on day one enforcing Comstock to ban abortion nationwide from fertilization, as well as methods of birth control these groups consider abortifacients. Unless one really believes, that when Republicans won't tell these groups no when it's causing them to lose elections, that they're going to tell them no after they've won one?
Also Ohio Republicans are still fighting reproductive rights tooth and nail, and there's no guarantee of the outcome, regardless of the amendment. Republicans still control the courts and the executive in that state.
Absolutely everyone should fight with every legal strategy they have, but the other side doesn't care how many people die. I am so incredibly tired of anyone being even the least bit surprised by that.
Peer reviewed medical literature demonstrates this is a total fabrication.“Hundreds of medical studies and vast amounts of data have confirmed its safety and efficacy as part of this two-drug regimen,” the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, the American Medical Assn., and other medical societies wrote in a friend-of-the court brief filed on behalf of the FDA and Danco. The brief noted that “major adverse events (i.e. that would require ER care) occur in less than 0.32% of patients” (that is about 1 in about 300) and that “the risk of death is almost non-existent.” Why would the AMA and OB-Gyns want to spread information that would put thousands of women at risk?
Speaking as a family doc I find these law review articles to be both medically and legally sophisticated, clear and detailed. They tease apart nuances and details which define a basic human condition -pregnancy - and its complications, intended or not. It is very sad that neither the pro-life advocates nor the courts have any empathy for this basic human condition, its frequent complications, and the women who tragically suffer through them.
The otherwise excellent law review article on "Abortion Pills" observes that "Mifepristone, the only drug approved by the FDA to end a pregnancy, is more expensive and difficult to obtain than misoprostol.(28) This is largely due to the agency’s imposition of strict controls on the drug.(29)" However, the review neglects mention that the FDA's strict controls were never instituted and maintained for scientific or clinical reasons, but to accommodate religious and political opposition to its very approval.
Unless the Biden Administration and Democrats push back more vehemently against these Supreme Court decisions we are in for a lot worse. Simply acknowledging that nothing more can be done because the Court has ruled isn't enough. Our Constitution is supposed to create a system of checks and balances, not court rule. Unless Biden questions the legitimacy of *this* Court, insists that women will die because of its decisions and that the majority stand completely outside American public opinion, it's going to continue. Non-compliance should be threatened as one option.
It’s worth reflecting that there was never a solid political majority for abortion rights in either party until quite recently, and there may still not be a working majority for abortion rights among health care leaders.
The signs are obvious. Declining to repeal that one section of Comstock was and is a choice. The federal ban on funding abortion was and is a choice. Refusing to provide abortions as part of routine care at hospitals and doctors’ offices, thereby shunting the procedure off to a ghettoized network of “abortion clinics,” was and is one hell of a choice.
I think there has been a popular majority for abortion rights for a long time. But not among the patriarchy of political and medical leaders.
Help! Get me out of this evil alternative reality. I spent the last 50 years thinking women had won big with Roe v. Wade. Guess their motto is “we were only kidding, you dumb b..ches.”
Ok, I’ll put my armor back on (even if it’s too snug) and see if I can I can swing my metaphorical sword. I’m 70 but I’m still in the fight for Equal Rights.
This stuff is what made me realize that "seeing red" is a legitimate thing that can happen if you're angry enough.
If Republicans win the election there will most likely be an executive order on day one enforcing Comstock to ban abortion nationwide from fertilization, as well as methods of birth control these groups consider abortifacients. Unless one really believes, that when Republicans won't tell these groups no when it's causing them to lose elections, that they're going to tell them no after they've won one?
Also Ohio Republicans are still fighting reproductive rights tooth and nail, and there's no guarantee of the outcome, regardless of the amendment. Republicans still control the courts and the executive in that state.
Absolutely everyone should fight with every legal strategy they have, but the other side doesn't care how many people die. I am so incredibly tired of anyone being even the least bit surprised by that.
According to Jessica Valenti 81% of the public supports keeping government out of abortion. Just you and your doctor.
Peer reviewed medical literature demonstrates this is a total fabrication.“Hundreds of medical studies and vast amounts of data have confirmed its safety and efficacy as part of this two-drug regimen,” the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, the American Medical Assn., and other medical societies wrote in a friend-of-the court brief filed on behalf of the FDA and Danco. The brief noted that “major adverse events (i.e. that would require ER care) occur in less than 0.32% of patients” (that is about 1 in about 300) and that “the risk of death is almost non-existent.” Why would the AMA and OB-Gyns want to spread information that would put thousands of women at risk?
I'm interested in the justices' reactions after Dobbs during oral argument.
Breyer is on Colbert tonight. He talks about Dobbs in his new book.
Yes, I agree with Sharon
Fullen. I had thought we
women were safe. That my
daughter, granddaughters
and future greats were safe
with freedom of choice and
our/their rights that we
fought long and hard
for. Here we are again.