Alice Miranda-Olstein

Not on this one.

It's very possible that, you know, once again, they sort of duck the heart of the issue on abortion, on federal power versus state power.

And they just say, you don't have standing.

You can't prove that you, the state, are being injured by this policy.

So what's interesting here is you really have both sides making a state's rights argument and saying, my rights as a state are being infringed upon.

So you have Louisiana saying, why should other blue states, liberal abortion policies where anybody can get pills, why should that be allowed to invade our state when we're over here trying to ban abortion?

And so they're basically saying that allowing this anywhere, you know, infringes on their right as a state to prohibit it.

Now, of course, as you just articulated, you also have people saying, wait a minute, so that means it gets to be restricted for everybody, even people who, you know, have laws on the books in their states supporting access to abortion.

And so, yeah, you really have all sides of this reaching for the states' rights, you know, banner.

It's one of those sort of compromises that pleases nobody because, you know, the anti-abortion folks, they are not ever going to be satisfied.

They say, you know...

Why should a fetus's rights, you know, end at a state border?

And of course, on the other side, you have folks saying, why should, you know, a pregnant woman's rights end at a state border?

And so this is always going to be a federal fight.

Even before that, they were becoming more and more popular as a method of abortion.

And especially since the COVID pandemic, they have become the predominant method that people are choosing in order to terminate their pregnancies.

Medication is now used to bring about two thirds of all abortions.

And more than a quarter get them by telehealth.

So, you know, even if the pills aren't banned entirely, but just telehealth is restricted, that's going to be a big blow.

And it's not just a big blow to people living in states like Louisiana where there's a ban locally.