Louisiana Republicans criminalize the abortion pill

Terrible extremists

Less than two years out from Dobbs, Louisiana criminalizes the abortion pill—teeing up the surveillance, arrest, and prosecution of individuals who share or possess a medication that's approved by the FDA. https://t.co/DP1YhPflK1
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 23, 2024

This Louisiana bill also creates a registry, on which every single person who is prescribed abortion medication will be listed – truly state monitoring of pregnancies.

Donald Trump did this. https://t.co/DytQ0V04YD
— Lauren Hitt (@LaurenHitt) May 23, 2024

Louisiana is poised to legally reclassify abortion care medication as a dangerous controlled substance punishable with jail time if obtained without a prescription.

Story: https://t.co/6JHAtvu3sr pic.twitter.com/Ofax00x18X
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 23, 2024

Republicans are attacking medication abortions

They want to ban them.

Biden slams GOP efforts to further restrict abortion after the overturning of Roe:

“This is just the beginning. … The extreme right is trying to limit all women in America from getting safe and effective medication approved by the FDA … even in states where abortion is legal.” pic.twitter.com/rzGx7TnSPp
— The Recount (@therecount) January 22, 2024

The White House on Monday is announcing new steps intended to ensure access to contraception, abortion medication and emergency abortions at hospitals. https://t.co/4opkJWlys5
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 22, 2024

Medication abortion is hanging in the balance in 2024 — the FDA is a federal agency and there’s no “leave it to the states” option here. https://t.co/G7IFUU0ag0
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 20, 2024

Two cases — one concerning medication abortion and another about providing the procedure in medical emergencies — could further upend a profession already under siege. https://t.co/mBNu7rp5mq
— 19thnews (@19thnews) January 19, 2024

“West Virginia’s decision to step in where Congress has granted FDA the authority to regulate mifepristone is unlawful and could undermine not only access to medication, but the country’s entire drug regulation system.”
— @SkyePerryman https://t.co/J6MduspxKr
— Democracy Forward (@DemocracyFwd) January 22, 2024

The latter is one of the clearest targets for a second Trump term, and by far the most consequential given that *more than half* of abortions are medication abortions. https://t.co/VCMRg19k0L
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 22, 2024

More tweets on right-wing extremist effort to ban the abortion pill

Amid the legal challenge to the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, our poll finds most are confident that the FDA ensures medications are safe and effective. Most also say it is inappropriate for courts to overturn the FDA’s approval of a medication. https://t.co/7usJ7F1HKt pic.twitter.com/yVH8yyg9F3
— KFF (@KFF) May 30, 2023

The legal status of mifepristone, a pill used in most recent U.S. abortions, will be deliberated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday. The court has long been at the center of high-profile challenges to Democrat-backed measures. https://t.co/dSYtdltbzs
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 16, 2023

Two-thirds of Americans say the drug mifepristone, used in the majority of abortions in the United States, should remain on the market, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The survey finds that 66 percent of U.S. adults say mifepristone should remain on the market,… pic.twitter.com/9M18FiNbwX
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 9, 2023

Three GOP appointees, including two from Trump, will hear the next phase of a major abortion pill case https://t.co/XuZ6DPpFUl
— CNN (@CNN) May 8, 2023

A majority of American voters thinks the FDA-approved prescription medication used to end a pregnancy, mifepristone, should be legal. (Victoria Balara, Fox News) Details: https://t.co/O9epQiJhYf pic.twitter.com/PaFWFALeYJ
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) April 28, 2023

The Supreme Court (R) will either ban or limit the abortion pill

Anything else would upset their Trump cult supporters.

I expect the Supreme Court (R) to support restrictions on the abortion poll. This is a political decision. If they overturn the restrictions, their Republican supporters will be angry. Pro-abortion supporters will still be mad at them for overturning Roe /1
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) April 20, 2023

If they support the restrictions, their right-wing supporters will be happy. Abortion supporters are already furious so they’ll still be angry. /2
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) April 20, 2023

We’ve already seen they don’t care about precedent or what the majority of the public wants. They only care about what their right wing base wants. /end
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) April 20, 2023

Trump is evil but he understands that the extremist GOP abortion policies are unpopular

Roe v. Wade wouldn’t have been overturned without the three Trump justices. The judge who banned the abortion pill was also a Trump appointee. Still, he hasn’t gloated because he knows GOP policies are too far right for the public.

Earlier this week, I predicted that abortion politics would lead Trump to endorse a more-moderate position. It was a good prediction. https://t.co/elVM9uVdUz
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 14, 2023

According to two participants and another source close to Trump, the ex-president has warned leaders in off-the-record conversations that Republicans risk “losing big” — in Trump’s words — unless they follow his lead. https://t.co/o7JT4ZTZT6
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) April 14, 2023

🚨 Another abortion warning sign for the GOP: Some pro-life PA voters who previously supported Trump are firmly against banning mifepristone — and view it as the latest example of GOP extremism and overreach. @axios https://t.co/VUkybe4OlM
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) April 14, 2023

Republican judge may ban abortion pill

Walgreen’s has already caved in to GOP pressure. Cowards.

Within days, Trump Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk could issue a nationwide ban on mifepristone, a key drug in medication abortion.

A lead lawyer on the lawsuit is Erin Hawley, wife of Sen. Josh Hawley.

Kacsmaryk gave $500 to Josh Hawley in 2018.

Interesting little connection there. pic.twitter.com/sezYOLWU1G
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 3, 2023

Walgreens said it would not distribute the abortion pill mifepristone in the 21 states in which Republican attorneys general sent letters threatening legal action against retail pharmacy chains if they dispensed it. https://t.co/8LeOusXA0v
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 3, 2023

One man, TX federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a devout Christian with deep antiabortion beliefs, could impose a far-reaching limit on abortion pills, halting more than half of safe and legal abortions in the nation. But hey, “they’ll never actually do it.” https://t.co/VxPnAjkm28
— Soraya Chemaly (@schemaly) February 27, 2023