A majority of Democrats in the House and Senate submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to protect access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Forty-seven Democratic senators and 212 House members urged the high court to overturn the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling reinstating an in-person requirement to obtain mifepristone, which has not been enforced in five years. “The Fifth Circuit’s Order should be stayed because the relief it granted has no basis in law, threatens the congressionally-mandated evidence-based process for drug-regulatory decisions, and poses a serious health risk to pregnant individuals,” Democrats wrote in the brief. “Mifepristone, which patients have used for more than 25 years as part of the most common and recommended regimen for medication abortion, should not be made more difficult to access across the entire country,” they added. It follows a Monday order from Justice Samuel Alito, who briefly halted the ruling that would prevent the abortion pill from being prescribed without an in-person doctor visit.
If Democrats win and don’t expand the court. Hell to pay
I’d rather they impeach Clarence Thomas and Alito than expand the court. It gets the same end result without also conceeding that particular moral high ground to the republicans.
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Funny, because the people who didn’t vote had the exact same effect.
Stupid farce.
Brother, they are both funded by Israel. Would you have less people in cages? Yeah maybe, but the Democrats are just as responsible for the fall of America - I truly don’t understand how anyone can see it any other way.
Ever noticed how every time the dems lose, it’s a surprise and by one vote, and never a primary-able vote? It’s all a farce
What about the voting rights thing…
“You don’t need that. We know what’s best for you.” - Democratic leadership with the billionaire class’s hand up their asses using them like puppets
Urge, yes, urge with all your might.
Sure. Abortion pills. Don’t worry about pursuing the cabal of child sex traffickers (that’s just what we KNOW they did, who knows what other unspeakable acts they are STILL COMMITTING), or ICE murderers, or the WAR in Iran, or the underage girls being raped in ICE detention (remember that one?), or the rollback of civil rights, or the open bribery of the SCOTUS, or any of the flagrant putrid corruption in the White House.
This is part of the rollback of civil rights
Explain to us how unwanted, forced births make any of those societal ills better?
Hint: they don’t. Walling off abortion to the privilege of the rich, which is all that criminalizing it does, simply ensures a better, unending supply of poor bodies to be trafficked, sent to war, or used as labor – and, as someone else rightfully pointed out, is itself a rollback of not only a civil right but also what I consider to be a basic human right for everyone, men and women alike: the right to control one’s own body and reproduction.
When you make a stand against abortion, you are very literally arguing FOR the perpetuation of the exact situations you claim to care about.
Preventing access to abortion is a direct line to keeping women “barefoot and pregnant” as the saying goes, ill-educated because they’re out of school as soon as the babies start coming, and financially powerless to walk away with ease from situations and outcomes that are not in their best interests, nor in the best interests of all these unwanted children, forever dependent on those with more money and ulterior motives just for their basic needs.
TL;DR: If you actually gave a shit about ANY of the marginalized and misused people you listed, then you’d absolutely give a shit about abortion access: these are NOT separate issues.
I do give a shit about abortion access, I can see now how my comment may have suggested otherwise. Glad they are making a stand, just wondering why none of those other issues have prompted such unity
You couldn’t have known this, but you’re talking to someone who was around for Roe v. Wade back in the 70s: all this is new to a lot of younger folks, but for many of us, it’s been established canon for over fifty years.
Not just women, but men too: it wasn’t part of our exchange, but birth control and abortion access are two sides of the same coin, and at the time of Roe V. Wade widely available birth control was also fairly new. I wasn’t quite old enough to be personally affected, but spent time around many who were rigorously testing the limits of these newly available methods, so it’s never been a question for me: letting women control their own fertility is best for everyone, bar none except those wanting to exploit other humans in one way or another.
To me these are all literally the same issue – can’t have widespread exploitation without poors to exploit, and blocking abortion is just the start of ensuring that long, long pipeline of bodies – but regardless I’m glad to hear you weren’t just trolling, and am encouraged that you’ve given this some thought. Thanks for letting me know.
I hear ya. I just think that for dems many, MANY, HOLY FUCK OH SO MANY faults, in a decent world they could walk and chew gum.
Im going to guess you’re a man not at risk of dying from an ectopic pregnancy because the dumbest people in your country decided to play doctor.
I was more just calling out the irony of making a stand on this particular issue when there are a host of other equally heinous things going on. I fully support legal safe abortion including access to mifepristone
So after all that’s happened, they send a stern letter?
For the millionth time since November of 2024, a strongly-worded letter is about all the Democrats have the power to do right now.
No. They can do the same junk the MAGAts and Tea Party gang did. Exploit every parliamentary procedural, deny unanimous consent, ACTUALLY FILIBUSTER, etc.
I’m just kidding. They won’t do any of that. Just mewl and talk about how they’re the lesser evil.
Specifically which procedures do you want them to exploit?
Exploit every parliamentary procedural, deny unanimous consent, ACTUALLY FILIBUSTER, etc
What would they exploit or filibuster when this is a Supreme Court ruling?
Ok. I’ll give it to you.
I meant for everything, but OK. There’s nothing they can do about the SC.
Probably no pressure they can apply anywhere. Just forced to take that PAC money and write stern letters.
Perhaps they should hold a rally outside SCOTUS. I’m sure tourists would love to see the nation’s highest court.
Name one thing they can do with minorities in both chambers of Congress besides send a letter. One thing that is within their constitutional power to do. One thing that the political savants on Lemmy will deem sufficient.
I’ll wait.
You only need wait negative minutes and read my response to the previous poster.
You’re welcome in advance.
And I responded to that. This is a SC case, so there is no parliamentary procedure shenanigans they can pull and nothing to filibuster.
