Anti-abortion activists have their backup strategies already in place if the Supreme Court decides not to reverse the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the lawsuit Tuesday, which was filed by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine in an attempt to reverse the FDA’s approval of the pill. Anti-abortion activists and elected officials say they have a long list of alternative strategies in the event that the high court sides with the FDA. Those strategies include legislation, putting pressure on pharmacies distributing the drug, and turning to environmental and wildlife laws.
“We’re not putting all our chips on this one case,” Jesse Southerland, the federal policy director for Americans United for Life, told Politico. “Since chemical abortion is making up
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