The abortion pill case included several strikingly candid discussions of pregnancy- and abortion-related issues.
By Caroline Kitchener, The Washington PostMembers of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022.
And Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shared her understanding that pregnancy tissue remaining in the body after a medication abortion doesn’t necessarily require “surgical intervention.”on a challenge to a key abortion drug are women, the highest number ever to sit on the high court for an abortion case. All three attorneys who argued the case, on both sides, are also women, a relative rarity in the male-dominated Supreme Court bar.
The abortion pill case - which could restrict access to mifepristone, a medication used in 63 percent of the more than 1 million abortions performed annually in the United States - is focused on somewhat technical medical issues.Antiabortion advocates argue the pills are highly dangerous, especially when taken without an ultrasound or in-person medical visit - false claims based largely on studies that have since been retracted by the journal that published them.
“They were trying to take this seriously and treat abortion pills in this context as a medical issue,” Ziegler said. “The kind of case this is - it kind of invites that. It’s not a case about the Constitution.” Soon after this, Kagan and Jackson joined in to back up Barrett - echoing her concerns about standing. At times, the three women even finished one another’s lines of questioning.
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