U.S. Supreme Court revives bar on abortion pill mail delivery in pandemic

So if you are raped, you have to deliver the rapist's child, thereby passing on his psychopathic genes.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-abortion/u-s-supreme-court-revives-bar-on-abortion-pill-mail-delivery-in-pandemic-idUSKBN29H30L

 

By Andrew Chung

January 12, 20216:14 PM

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated a requirement that women visit a hospital or clinic to obtain a drug used for medication-induced abortions, lifting an order by a lower court allowing the drug to be mailed or delivered as a safety measure during the coronavirus pandemic.

The justices granted a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to lift a federal judge’s July order that had suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rule requiring in-person visits for the duration of the pandemic.

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The court’s three liberal justices said they would have denied the Trump administration’s request while litigation over the dispute continues in lower courts.

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Greenbelt, Maryland in July found that due to the health risks that COVID-19 poses, the in-person requirements “place a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking a medication abortion” and likely violate their constitutional rights.

Chuang’s injunction said the government had taken actions to effectively waive several in-person requirements for dispensing other drugs, including opioids.

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Groups representing tens of thousands of physicians, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, sued the FDA in May saying that requiring in-person visits to pick up a pill needlessly exposes patients, doctors, and workers to a greater risk of contracting COVID-19.

The groups said this is especially true given that evaluations and counseling may be done through telemedicine and that the drug itself may be taken elsewhere.