MOCK TRIAL: Should the Courts Restrict Access to the Abortion Pill?

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Supreme Court will soon decide on a case surrounding a medication used for abortion, mifepristone, and whether the drug should continue to be available based on claims of safety and ethical considerations. Those in favor of restrictions argue that the FDA fast-tracked its approval without considering health impacts. Those against restriction argue the FDA made its decisions based on safety and efficiency, and it’s being targeted to further infringe on women’s rights. Now we debate: Should the Courts Restrict Access to the Abortion Pill? Petitioner: Julia Kaye, Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project Respondent: Catherine Glenn Foster, Senior Fellow in Legal Policy at the Charlotte Lozier Institute Judge's Chair: John Donvan, Moderator-in-Chief and Emmy award-winning journalist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.2	This is open to debate. I'm John Don Van.
0:34.0	Hi everybody. In this episode, we're again employing our new mock trial format.
0:38.0	This time we're presenting two lawyers who are taking opposite sides in one of this year's most followed Supreme Court cases
0:44.4	with a ruling expected in the next few months actually.
0:47.2	The case is called FDA versus Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine.
0:51.2	It stems from a lawsuit that a group of conservative doctors brought against the Food and Drug Administration
0:56.0	for the Food and Drug Administration's approval and rulemaking around the so-called abortion pill.
1:01.0	That's a drug called methapristone.
1:03.0	Available since 2000, it has been accessible since 2021 via telehealth appointment with pills
1:10.0	sent through the mail if necessary. Since 2016 it's been usable later in pregnancy
1:15.4	than originally and it can be dispensed by non-doctor health care professionals.
1:20.0	Depending on what the Supreme Court rules, that accessibility may be cut off.
1:25.8	For this debate, I invite you to put yourselves in the positions of the Supreme Court justices.
1:30.8	Much is running on the decision that you would make.
1:33.0	So to get our mock trial started, let's metaphorically all rise,
1:37.0	and after that let's meet our two attorneys.
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