State bat­tles over mifepri­s­tone ac­cess could tie the FDA to any post-Roe cross­roads

As more than a dozen states are now ready­ing so-called “trig­ger” laws to kick in­to ef­fect im­me­di­ate abor­tion bans fol­low­ing the over­turn­ing of Roe v. Wade on Fri­day, these laws, in the works for more than a decade in some states, will like­ly kick off even more le­gal bat­tles as states seek to re­strict the use of pre­scrip­tion drug-based abor­tions.

Since Fri­day’s SCO­TUS opin­ion to over­turn Amer­i­cans’ con­sti­tu­tion­al right to an abor­tion af­ter al­most 50 years, re­pro­duc­tive rights lawyers at Planned Par­ent­hood and oth­er or­ga­ni­za­tions have al­ready chal­lenged these trig­ger laws in Utah and Louisiana. Ac­cord­ing to the Guttmach­er In­sti­tute, oth­er states with trig­ger laws that could take ef­fect in­clude Arkansas, Ida­ho, Ken­tucky, Mis­sis­sip­pi, Mis­souri, North Dako­ta, Ok­la­homa, South Dako­ta, Ten­nessee, Texas, and Wyoming.

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