Will SCOTUS Revoke Abortion Pill Access?
On March 26, the United States Supreme Court in a case against the sale of medication abortion, a drug named mifepristone. Just weeks earlier, drug stores such as announced they would start carrying the pill, which is the first medication in the two-step medication abortion protocol.聽
Nearly in the U.S. last year were medication abortions鈥攁 procedure that remains legal in 36 states. Will the nation鈥檚 highest court, which the constitutional right to an abortion two years ago with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization, now do away with access to the abortion pill as well?
Jess Braverman, legal director of Gender Justice, helped answer that question in a conversation with 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined 猫咪社区! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥 in her 2014聽聽of the same name.
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