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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Supreme Court's Case on the Abortion Pill Mifepristone

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Justices weigh a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration's dispensing rules, though the outcome could hinge on whether the plaintiffs even have standing to sue the FDA. Plus, Donald Trump's bond in New York's civil fraud case is cut to $175 million, which might keep Attorney General Letitia James from seizing his properties, as Truth Social goes public and surges in value. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:25.0

The Supreme Court hears a case challenging the FDA's rules for Miffapristone,

0:31.0

as Donald Trump gets bond relief from a New York appeals court and a potential

0:36.4

windfall as his social media site truth social goes public.

0:40.4

Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:43.8

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and Kim Strassal.

0:50.1

More than 60% of abortions in the United States last year or about 650,000 were done via medication.

0:58.6

According to the Gutmacher Institute, typically this involves the drug Mifapristone, and the case

1:04.4

Alicia at the Supreme Court today challenges some FDA rules relaxing the

1:09.7

prescribing of Mifapristone, allowing patients to get it via telemedicine and to get it via the mail.

1:16.0

Let's start with a clip of Justice Alana Kagan, asking a question to hear to Solicitor General

1:20.2

Elizabeth Prelegar.

1:21.7

To the government's knowledge, this case marks the first time, and I'm going to say, is it the first time, is it the only time?

1:28.0

Any court has restricted access to an FDA-approved drug by second- second guessing FDA's expert judgment about the

1:35.3

conditions required to assure that drug safe use. Is it still the only time?

1:40.1

That is still to our knowledge the only time a court has done that. We have seen a disturbing

1:45.2

trend of court sometimes also overriding FDA's judgment to try to grant greater access to drugs

1:51.2

when that overrides FDA's expert judgment about what's

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