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Anti-mifepristone court decisions rely on medical misinformation about abortion and questionable legal reasoning

  • Written by Jamie Rowen, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
Anti-mifepristone court decisions rely on medical misinformation about abortion and questionable legal reasoningA goal of the Texas plaintiffs was to stop the practice of sending abortion medication by mail.Andrii Zorii/iStock via Getty Images Plus

An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of the abortion pill mifepristone has sparked explosive debate.

Mifepristone is a medicine that blocks the receptors...

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