From 'bare minimum' to 'alarming': 7 reactions to Supreme Court's abortion pill ruling

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, June 13, 2024

Reproductive Freedom for All

The pro-abortion advocacy group Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly known as NARAL Pro-Choice America, praised Thursday's ruling in an X thread.

"The Supreme Court just decided not to impose restrictions on mifepristone. This is a sigh of relief for abortion access nationwide — but this case should never have gone as far as it did," the statement reads.

Contending that "mifepristone has been safely used for over 20 years by millions of people for abortion care and miscarriage management," Reproductive Freedom for All asked, "Why did this case make it this far?"

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"Because anti-abortion extremists used disinformation and junk science to attack mifepristone in their quest to end abortion care nationwide," identifying the abortion pill as "the most common method of abortion care."

"Anti-abortion groups know exploiting our courts is their best avenue to ban abortion nationwide. That's why they started by sending this case to an extreme judge with ties to anti-abortion groups in Texas — and then waited for it to reach the SCOTUS majority that overturned Roe."

The American College of Pediatricians released a 24-page report last year stating that "[b]leeding, cramping, and abdominal pain are commonly associated with a chemical abortion, and approximately 8% of women will experience bleeding for more than 30 days afterward." The report cited a 2015 study conducted by Planned Parenthood at Los Angeles that found "the medication abortion group was more likely to undergo an unanticipated aspiration, for ongoing pregnancy or persistent pain, bleeding, or both (2.1% compared with 0.6%)."

The American College of Pediatricians study stated that the likelihood of an adverse event following any method of abortion was "low at 1.9%" but "this risk was higher in the medical abortion group than the surgical abortion group." The academic review noted "a six-fold increase in adverse events in the patients who had a chemical abortion."