U.S. challenges to abortion pills

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In this modern age so many women and girls globally still don’t have access to abortion where they live, with more being deliberately targeted by restrictive lawmaking. This latest example is from America, Land of the er, ‘Free’.

Overt male entitlement to women and their bodies is playing out in modern society and on social media. The energies of women in the west are being used for re-fighting for basic things we already have had legal access to. What new progress are we making on really basic women’s rights in recent years, like abortion?

The facts aren’t with these US misogynists. It’s always safer to have an (safe, legal) abortion than it is to have a baby, including using pills by post in the early stages. Unsafe, illegal DIY abortion where legal abortion and access to safe methods have been removed, will kill women.

It feels as though the post war human rights agenda and the socially progressive laws of the 1960s and 1970s about sex and equality are increasingly seen as just a reactive blip. Or an obstacle. Not respected as the bedrock starting point for a decent society. It’s frightening where this could go.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2k20z5yj3wo

Agree. It’s easy to blame the Republicans for this (fair enough, they are doing it), but the US has had many Democrat administrations over the last half century with more than enough opportunities to put Roe v Wade on a more secure footing and they have chosen not to do so. Looks as though neither care about women’s rights or women’s health.

I couldn’t agree with you more. Same thing happened in the UK with the inaction for decades over rights to abortion in Northern Ireland.

There’s threats to women from the left and from the right. Just feel nervous how social media is heightening the feeling against women in so many different ways.

I can’t see how they would be able to do it here.

I have a daughter. This is a hill I will happily die on.

If they start we need to all stick together. Get out there and cause merry hell

Fight over online access to abortion pill reaches Supreme Court in emergency appeal
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/02/politics/mifepristone-supreme-court-abortion-pill-medication

I find their web site hard to follow but Abortion Rights which is a UK group also reports on what has been happening in the US
https://abortionrights.org.uk/category/uncategorised/

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Access To Abortion Pills By Mail
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-temporarily-restores-access-153057301.html

There's bound to be another challenge, but heartening to see that there are those who are organising to stop the attempt to curtail women's abortion rights.

Frightening. They know full well that desperate women unable to access safe ways to abort will turn to other ways. The ways that have killed and injured hundreds of thousands of women in the past.

I used to work for NARAL (back when it was NARAL, now it's Reproductive Freedom for All) and it was an incredibly uphill battle. Most of my time was wasted arguing with my school for equal representation in the campus booklets, to demand fine print for "emergency pregnancy" centers, and try to get a handle on the men with zero connection to the school who would go on campus with megaphones and giant pictures of disarticulated aborted fetuses (that they'd also drive around town with on their van).

But the problem isn't entirely from the right. As others have stated, dems had a very long time to put our reproductive rights in stone, but they needed women's reproductive rights to be something that was always on the precipice of being stolen.