Alice Miranda-Olstein

I am Alice Miranda-Olstein, and I am a senior health care reporter for Politico.

Yes, absolutely.

So what Louisiana is demanding is that the Supreme Court allow restrictions to go into effect right now, even before the case is finally resolved.

Louisiana says, you know, every day that patients in our state can get abortion pills online and get them shipped in in violation of our state's ban,

is a day we are being injured as a state.

They're claiming sovereign injury, that they say the ability of patients around the country to access these pills by telehealth, to have them prescribed by a doctor online and sent by mail, is helping people in their state circumvent the law.

And that's why they want the Supreme Court to step in and cut that off.

for everyone nationwide because it's a federal policy, while the case is still in the works.

And the drug makers are the ones fighting back against that, the two companies that make this abortion pill.

And they say, there's no sovereign injury.

You can't just get rid of a policy for everyone because you don't like how people are using it.

And they say that, you know, this policy has been in effect for several years already.

There's no sudden emergency where you need it suddenly banned just now.

And thus, the Supreme Court should keep everything the way it currently is while the case works its way through.

So the reading of the tea leaves is always a, you know, tricky, tricky venture with the Supreme Court.

You know, people try to guess based on, you know, the questions that were asked at oral arguments.

We haven't even gotten there yet in this case.

But it's just very hard to know.

It's very hard to know.

Not on this one.