Protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s Control of Abortion Pills: The Missouri-New Hampshire-Tennessee Case
Anti-abortion advocates, who legally challenged the Biden administration’s prescribing rules around mifepristone, have been readying provocative and unusual ways to further limit abortion pill access when Trump takes office next year. They are looking for ways to limit the pills’ use under the conservative U.S. Supreme Court.
In Missouri, New Hampshire and Tennessee, there are bills being considered that would prohibit or restrict the use of the pills.
Tennessee is considering legislation to target the use of drugs in abortions and provide a remedy for the family of the unborn children.
The complaint says that a 20-year-old woman who became pregnant sometime in mid-May was prescribed the two anti-seizure drugs. The woman, who is not named in the lawsuit, experienced adverse side effects from the pills and asked her partner to take her to the hospital because of hemorrhage or severe bleeding on July 16th.
Texas has been one of the most aggressive states when it comes to opposing abortion rights. The US Supreme Court opened the door to state banning abortions, even before it said that it was not permissible to perform one in the US.
The number of abortions in the U.S. has increased since state bans started taking effect, even though such prescriptions were made online and over the phone. The majority of abortions in the U.S. involve pills.
A lawsuit against Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter, founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, filed in Collin County, Texas, on March 22
The challenge to shield laws, which blue states have been adopting, has been anticipated by Mary Ruth Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis.
Will doctors be afraid to send pills into Texas when they don’t know if they’re protected by shield laws? In an interview on Friday, Ziegler said.
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit against Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter, founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedecine, in Collin County civil court on Thursday. The state seeks up to a $250,000 fine for Carpenter, who does not face criminal charges.
The woman who received the pills had a serious problem and was taken to the hospital. The state claimed that the man who was the biological father of the unborn child learned of the pregnancy and the abortion after that.
Even if there is a win in Texas court, it’s not clear how that could be enforced. “Is he going to go to New York to enforce it?” she asked.
An email and phone message was not immediately returned by the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, where Carpenter is co-medical director.
The New York State’s Curvature Problem and its Relevance in the Statistical Mechanics of the Large Magellanic Cloud
The question is if the courts in New York recognize it, according to a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.