Conservative Supreme Court justices wrote a scathing dissent to the 7-2 decision to allow women to continue accessing the abortion pill Mifepristone via mail and telehealth.
“What is at stake is the perpetration of a scheme to undermine our decision in Dobbs v. Jackson,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his dissent, referring to the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and pulled back abortion access.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court continued a pause on an appeals court decision that restricted access to Mifepristone via telehealth and mail. The decision extended a stay that the bench handed down earlier in the month, but it is not the final decision, as it will go back to the New Orleans-based appeals court and could return to the Supreme Court docket, reported The Hill.
“Manufacturers of the drug…are obviously aware of what is going on yet nevertheless supply the drug and reap profits from its felonious use in Louisiana,” Alito went on.
Fellow conservative Justice Clarence Thomas also wrote a dissenting opinion. He blasted the drug manufacturers, who “are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise.”
Alito added that “more abortions now occur each month in Louisiana than they did before Dobbs” as a result of out-of-state doctors and organizations mailing abortion pills to Louisiana women’s doors
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