Amicus: How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS

Well, it happened again. The hIgHeSt CoUrT will hear arguments
Tuesday in a case based on made up facts! This time it’s
mifepristone, the abortion drug at the center of Alliance for
Hippocratic Medicine v FDA.  The claim was that the FDA
approval process (three decades ago), for mifepristone, one of two
medication abortion drugs, was haphazard and slapdash.. Alliance
for Hippocratic Medicine also argued that the FDA’s 2021 decision
to allow telemedicine abortion and mailing of abortion pills
violates a 19th-century anti-vice law called the Comstock Act. This
week on the show Dahlia Lithwick speaks with Carrie N. Baker, Smith
College professor and author of the forthcoming book Abortion
Pills: US History and Politics. Baker says taking away the rights
to access abortion pills in the mail could have catastrophic
consequences for pregnant people, drug development, and privacy for
all Americans. In this week’s subscribers-only segment, Slate’s
Trump Law correspondent Jeremy Stahl gives us the updates on some
of the cases against the former president - including the “a lot
ton” of money he owes in New York, like starting on Monday. 
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