The medication abortion issue is to hard for me to keep up with, and quite frankly, I don't even try to. But here's what I've gleaned so far from this whole mess.
After finding a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas who was prone to ruling in their favor, a Christian anti-abortion group sued in his court to have Food and Drug Administration approval of an abortion pill overturned, which the judge did, while a judge in Washington State handed down a contracistory ruling demanding that the pill be available in all of the states where abortion is still legal. The Justice Department appealed the Texas ruling, and now Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito - who, ironically, wrote the infamous Dobbs decision that started all of this - has halted the order handed down in Amarillo, allowing the pill while the Supreme Court figures out what the hell to do about all this. The Court will make a decision on Wednesday.
I'm sorry, I just don't care anymore. Also, I am dead certain that the abortion pill, even if it is allowed this time, will be taken off the market some way, somehow, because the MAGA Republicans who still rule this country with an iron fist despite the presence of a Democratic President are too daunting an enemy to fight. Also, the Republicans control the House, the staggered Senate electoral map favors them in 2024, and President Biden is a weak incumbent who could go against a formidable opponent in a presidential election that the GOP can win in the electoral college without having to win the popular vote.
My attitude from a year ago still stands, despite recent victories for progressive movements such as abortion rights, when a pro-choice judge won election to the state Supreme Court in Wisconsin. I'm tired of losing, I don't want to get involved in losing causes with occasional (and negligible) upward blips in an otherwise downward trajectory, and so I don't want to bothered, Go get someone else to join the fight.
I'm as neutral as Switzerland, a country I wish I could move to right now.
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UPDATE: The Supreme Court voted 7-2 to keep abortion medication on the market at least until the issue works its way through the lower courts.
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