A coalition of Republican lawmakers urged the Supreme Court to block mailing of a widely-used abortion pill, calling postal distribution of the drug “illegal and also harmful.”
Republican senators Bill Cassidy, and John Thune along with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson are among the 113 members of Congress supporting Louisiana’s case to reverse the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions allowing mifepristone to be mailed. The lawmakers claim that the Biden-era FDA’s removal of in-person dispensing requirements for the drug in 2023 was a dangerous political call “to expand access to abortion drugs despite lacking enough evidence to show the ...