Julie Rovner
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30 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
Julie Rovner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Anti-abortion groups have been increasingly vocal about their frustration that the president hasn't done more to limit, if not outlaw, the abortion pill.
And the telehealth option has basically allowed women to get around most state bans in the 20 states that now have them.
Well, I think it's safe to say there was mass confusion.
Medication abortion today accounts for more than 60% of all abortions in the U.S., most of them using this drug.
Mifepristone is also used to treat miscarriage.
It's not just an abortion drug.
And this order attempted to roll back its availability dramatically.
Doctors, patients, and drug makers all had no idea what it meant on the ground.
And I should add that this came as kind of a surprise, not just because the ruling came down on a Friday after 5 p.m.
in the East, but because the Trump administration itself had asked the lower court to put the case on hold until the FDA finishes an ongoing review of Mifepristone safety.
Presumably that won't happen until much later this year.
Well, Justice Alito has only stayed the ruling for a week until next Monday.
Parties in the case have just a couple of days to deliver their arguments to the justices.
And next week, the court could continue to keep the status quo where telehealth abortion is available, or it could allow the appeals court ruling to take effect or could do something else entirely.
We'll have to wait and see.
That's right.
There was a case out of Texas in 2023.
That case asked not just for availability to be rolled back to what it was prior to 2021.
That's when patients physically had to get the pill handed to them by a doctor.
But it asked the court to cancel the pill's FDA approval altogether.
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