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Pill Politics: The Supreme Battle Over Mifepristone | Saturday Extra

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether to regulate access to abortion drug mifepristone. The attorney arguing for limitations on the “poison pill” joins us. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In 2023, more than a million abortions were performed in the US.

0:07.0

Six in 10 of these abortions were performed with medication.

0:11.0

That's up from 53% in 2020. The data was released this week by the

0:15.3

Gutmacher Institute which supports abortion and shows that at-home

0:19.2

abortions are on the rise and have become the most popular form of abortion.

0:24.6

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that seeks to limit access

0:28.8

to abortion drug Miffa Pressstone, which can currently be accessed in the mail and taken without a doctor's supervision.

0:35.8

In this episode, we speak to Aaron Holly, senior council at Alliance defending Freedom, about her case.

0:41.8

I'll note here that Holly was part of the legal team that got

0:44.8

Roe v. Wade overturned. She's now the lead counsel in the Supreme Court's

0:48.9

next abortion case. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Saturday, March 23rd, and this is an extra edition of Morning

0:59.0

Wire. Joining me to discuss her Supreme Court case is Senior Counsel Aaron Holly, who will be the lead attorney in Tuesday's case.

1:10.0

Aaron, thanks for coming on. Of course, thanks for having me.

1:14.0

So you're arguing this case, U.S. Food and Drug Administration versus Alliance for Hippocratic

1:19.6

Medicine. Tell us a little bit about that case and what your argument's going to be.

1:24.0

So in this case it concerns the FDA's reckless removal of common sense

1:30.0

basic safeguards for women's health when they are taking the abortion

1:34.4

and drug myth oppressed down. In 2021 and 2016, the FDA removed all three

1:41.2

doctors visits prior to a woman taking or during the process of

1:45.8

taking Miffa Pestown and that means that women don't need to ever be seen by

1:50.2

a health care provider before they're prescribed and take this high-risk drug.

1:55.0

Now you said that there were originally three doctors visits.

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