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SCOTUS Protects Abortion Pill (For Now)

Released Friday, 14th June 2024
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SCOTUS Protects Abortion Pill (For Now)

SCOTUS Protects Abortion Pill (For Now)

SCOTUS Protects Abortion Pill (For Now)

SCOTUS Protects Abortion Pill (For Now)

Friday, 14th June 2024
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Wireless. It's Friday, June

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14th, and the justices that overturned

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Roe just protected the abortion pill.

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We start here. In

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a unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court says

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this isn't the way to ban Mifepristone.

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The court decided that the individuals who

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brought this lawsuit didn't have the legal

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right to do that. But did they

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also just lay out a roadmap to

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ban it successfully? Meanwhile, the Justice Department

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takes on the Phoenix PD. This

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is one instance where we can't count

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on the police to police themselves. The

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disturbing allegations in a city with one of

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the highest police shooting rates in the nation.

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mask ban. From

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ABC News, this is Start Here.

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I'm Brad Milkey. It's

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June, which means the Supreme Court is finally releasing its opinions

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on all these cases they've been hearing for the last

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several months. And often as the days go on

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in this period, the cases get bigger,

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often more divisive. After

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all, it was a late June day a couple years ago when

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Roe v. Wade was overturned. So

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it might've been surprising yesterday morning when we

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learned a different ruling about abortion, this

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time specifically about the abortion pill was

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about to be made public. President Trump

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says in an interview this morning and

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in prior reports, unanimously

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to maintain availability. But as contentious as

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this issue is, this decision was not

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close. It was a unanimous ruling, and

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it protects the pill from being banned

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in states where abortion is still legal.

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Let's go straight to ABC Supreme Court

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contributor Kate Shaw, who is watching all

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this. Kate, first off, can you just

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remind us what this case was about?

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Sure thing, Brad. So the case is about

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the future of medication abortion, specifically one of

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the drugs that is used

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in ending early pregnancies. It's called

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mifepristone, and a group of anti-abortion

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doctors sued the FDA, initially

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trying to get mifepristone totally yanked

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off the shelves, but also arguing

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that several recent regulatory changes by

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the FDA to make mifepristone more

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readily available were unlawful and should

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be undone, making mifepristone at the

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very least more difficult to access.

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And so then yesterday, what is the ruling? Because the idea of

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who brought this case ended up being important

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to it. Oh, that was critical,

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Brad. And that's really all the court decided,

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was that the individuals who brought this lawsuit

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didn't have the legal right to do that.

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I mean, can you point me to any

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place in the declarations where a declarant states

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that they attempted to object but were unable

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to? No, Your Honor, for two reasons. One,

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these are emergency situations. So this was a

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group of anti-abortion doctors that were never able

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to make a convincing case for why they

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should be in court in the first place.

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They had some theories that they offered that

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basically said, well, maybe some woman somewhere

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will take mifepristone and have complications

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as a result of taking mifepristone.

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And one of the doctors in

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the lawsuit might encounter such

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a woman in an emergency room and be

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forced to participate in her care. And

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that gave them what's known as standing,

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like a legal stake in the matter

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that gave them the right to go

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to court and ask the courts essentially

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to examine the FDA's approval protocols with

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respect to mifepristone. Did she have an

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opportunity to object? Did she object?

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No, Your Honor. Again, these are

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life-threatening situations in which the choice

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