Dr. Christina Francis

Yes, well, Allie, thank you for having me back on again.

It's so great to be with you.

Yeah, on May 1st, we were really excited to hear the ruling from the Fifth Circuit that while this case out of Louisiana over Mifepristone is working its way through the court,

that the in-person dispensing requirement for Mifepristone, the abortion drug, should be put back into place immediately because of the harm of it not being there, because of the harm that that's causing to states like Louisiana and also to women like Rosalie Marquezich, who's one of the co-plaintiffs in this case, who was coerced into

chemical abortion by her boyfriend who was able to order these drugs online, get a mail to him and then sat in the car with her.

And really, it sounds like verbally threatened her.

She was afraid of physical harm if she didn't take these drugs and so was forced into an abortion that ended the life

of her child.

And so thankfully, the Fifth Circuit recognized that this is a real active danger to state pro-life laws, but also to individual women who are being harmed, and of course, preborn children who are being harmed by these drugs.

And so the Fifth Circuit said, while this case is making its way through the court, we need that in-person dispensing requirement back immediately.

Yes.

Well, so keeping in mind, I am not an attorney, but I have lots of friends who are.

They have given me the wording to recap this.

So what happened was then that Fifth Circuit decision was immediately appealed to the Supreme Court by the abortion drug manufacturers, so Danco and GenBiopro.

whose sole financial product, I know for Danco, but I believe for GenBioPro as well, is the abortion drug bifepristone.

So they immediately appealed to the Supreme Court.

And then earlier this week, Justice Alito, because he makes decisions on any appeals that come through the Fifth Circuit, Justice Alito just said,

we're going to put a pause for a few days on what the Fifth Circuit said.

And we want to hear from all of the parties involved.

We want to get briefs from all of the parties involved.