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How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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The Decades-Long Effort to Create Doubt and Uncertainty About Abortion Pills

The pro-life advocates have been striving for decades to sow doubt and uncertainty regarding abortion pills, their efficacy, and safety, setting the United States far behind the rest of the world in this aspect. The efforts to cast medical uncertainty and propagate fake facts and claims predate the recent Dobbs case significantly. Comparing to France, where Mythopristone was developed and approved in the 1980s, the United States took a different, irregular path. The intention was to create an irregular process at the FDA, aiming to cast doubt on the safety and efficacy of abortion pills.

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