Can abortion pills be prescribed online?
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, May 4, the Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on a lower court’s order that mifepristone, a drug commonly used in early-term abortions, can only be prescribed and dispensed in person. The order pauses the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’s decision to prevent the drug from being accessed by mail. In a brief order, Justice Samuel Alito, who oversees appeals from the 5th Circuit, paused that court’s order until May 11, restoring telehealth access to the drug and giving challengers until May 7 to respond.
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Do Americans see each other as immoral?
Back in March, the headline was everywhere: “Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad,” the title of a 25-country study from the Pew Research Center. Associate Editor Lindsey Knuth interviewed one of the study’s coauthors, Jonathan Evans, and Pew’s associate director of global attitudes research, Laura Silver, to talk about Americans’ national pride, partisan differences, and the state of professional polling. You can listen to the interview here.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:09.1 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you can get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:28.3 | This is Associate Editor Audrey Moorhead, and today we're going to be covering the complicated legal battle surrounding the mail order abortion pill. |
| 0:36.9 | But first, just wanted to give you all a heads |
| 0:38.9 | up on an interesting interview that we released today. Back in March, you may have seen the headline. |
| 0:45.4 | A 25-country study from the Pew Research Center said that Americans were especially likely to view |
| 0:50.8 | fellow citizens as morally bad. In today's interview, Associate Editor Lindsay Canuth |
| 0:56.0 | talks to one of the study's co-authors Jonathan Evans and Pugh's Associate Director of Global |
| 1:01.1 | Attitudes Research, Laura Silver, to talk about Americans' national pride, partisan differences, |
| 1:06.1 | and the state of professional polling. So after you're through listening to today's podcast, |
| 1:10.6 | I definitely |
| 1:11.3 | recommend checking that out. It's a fascinating conversation. With that, I'll pass it over to Will, |
| 1:16.8 | who will tell you some more about today's story, and then you'll see me again for my take. |
| 1:28.6 | Thanks, Audrey. |
| 1:31.0 | All right, let's get into today's quick hits. |
| 1:45.5 | Number one, Indiana held primary elections for the 2026 midterms, and at least five of seven Republican state senators who opposed an effort to redraw the state's congressional map were defeated by challengers backed by President Donald Trump. One other race is too close to call. Separately, |
| 1:51.8 | entrepreneur Vivek Ramoswamy won the Republican nomination for Ohio's gubernatorial election. |
| 1:57.5 | He will face former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton in the general election. |
| 2:03.0 | Number two, President Trump announced he is suspending a U.S. military operation to assist ships |
| 2:08.6 | in their passage through the Strait of Hormuz, saying the pause will allow for renewed discussions |
| 2:13.7 | over a potential peace agreement with Iran. Number three, the Spanish government said it will |
| 2:19.5 | accept a cruise ship experiencing a hantavirus outbreak, which has killed three people on board, |
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