James Stout
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Last October, Louisiana brought this case against the FDA for a Biden-era regulation allowing telehealth prescription and mail-order access to the drug, which Louisiana claimed was unsafe and facilitated illegal abortions in the state.
A district court had previously agreed that Louisiana was likely to win its challenge, but it did not grant the state's requested stay on the regulation.
In fact, the lower court put the entire case on hold because last year, RFK Jr.
announced an FDA review of Mithipristone and its, quote unquote, reported adverse effects, with RFK Jr.
specifically mentioning in his announcement that, quote, the Biden administration removed Mithipristone's in-person dispensing rule without studying the safety risks, unquote.
Despite the case being put on hold due to the FDA's review, Louisiana appealed the lower court's decision to decline a stay on mail order Mithipristone.
And last week, the Fifth Circuit ruled in the state's favor, temporarily reinstating this in-person dispensing requirement while the case continues.
But then on May 4th, the Supreme Court restored remote prescription and mail order access to Mithipristone by blocking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling.
But this stay by the Supreme Court is only in effect until Monday, May 11th.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will consider responses from both parties and then issue a subsequent ruling.
We'll keep up on this as the Supreme Court issues a more definitive ruling in the near future.
The last thing I want to mention, very ever so briefly, big news in Marxland.
Biggest update in Marxism in a while.
New Marxism just dropped?
On Monday, the Secret Service shot a 45-year-old man from Texas named Michael Marx, spelled the same way, who was allegedly concealed carrying a SIG P...