abortion pills have been on a bit of a journey in the United States over the past few weeks.

The journey begins in Louisiana where the state sued the Food and Drug Administration

to ban access to Miffipristone through telehealth pills in the mail.

On May 1st, a district appeals court temporarily banned access to telehealth abortion and pills by mail

nationwide. So for a few days,

a lot of people in the country were like, uh, but then the Supreme Court of the United States weighed in.

Oh yay, oh yay, oh yay. The Supreme Court has, at least for now, restored access. But the Supreme Court

wasn't finished. They said, we'll have more for you on Monday, yesterday. But then yesterday, they said,

actually, Thursday, and we'll see if that happens. The Supreme Court said it would get out of the

business of abortion after overturning Roe v. Wade, and they were wrong. So while we wait for them to

figure this out again, we're going to talk about what's at stake on today Explain from Bucks.

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By the end of the week, could the nature of access to abortion pills across the country change? Is that what's at stake here?

Yes, absolutely.

So what Louisiana is demanding is that the Supreme Court allow restrictions to go into effect right now, even before the case is

finally resolved. Louisiana says, you know, every day that patients in our state can get abortion

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