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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone [Watch (HLS stream): Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wwM723zp.m3u8) (1:57)  _Published 2024-03-25. The fate of a commonly used abortion pill will be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in the high court’s first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. The case centers on the accessibility of mifepristone, the only drug approved specifically for terminating pregnancies, and whether the government applied a lawful review process of the drug when it first came out._ --- Mar 26, 2024 1:26 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Attorney General Garland Responds to Supreme Court's Idaho Abortion Ruling](/video/2wEPbrqK/) ### Attorney General Garland Responds to Supreme Court's Idaho Abortion Ruling [Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Challenge to Abortion Drug Mifepristone](/video/Dzk4IIPq/) ### Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Challenge to Abortion Drug Mifepristone [Supreme Court Seems Concerned About Whether Abortion Opponents Have Right to Sue Over Mifepristone](/video/OhIasZKP/) ### Supreme Court Seems Concerned About Whether Abortion Opponents Have Right to Sue Over Mifepristone --- ## Transcript Our clients are doctors who are either OBGYNs or OBGYN hospitalist at who work in the emergency room. And the reason our clients has standing is because from 2000 on including a 2021 FDA acknowledged that the restrictions are the safeguards that it was removing on the abortion drug would mean that more women suffer harm and end up in the emergency room again women come into these emergency rooms suffering from an abortion drug complications at and our doctors. I have a sincere conscience objection. I took facilitating abortion to potentially ending and unborn life and those sorts of things are doctors are armed by fda's Express acknowledgments on an engine scription of those doctors to deal with problem with the agency anticipated up and how drug approvals function if you can Challenge drug approvals years or even decades after the fact by asking judges to sort of second-guess the evidence that Regulators have meticulously reviewed that's that's a pretty important precedent from the standpoint of access to it for crystal in the case could be a big deal because if the court even sides with the fifth circuit essentially saying that the FDA didn't have the authority to lift restrictions on access to the drug in 2016 and 2021 that would render pretty much all the doses of mifeprex stone on the market potentially misbranded and mislabeled which could mean I think you two months of disruption in terms of the drug being available. There's a possibility that the court will address The Comstock act which is and a nineteenth-century obscenity law, which some abortion opponents are hoping the Trump Administration if there is a second Trump Administration will treat as a de facto ban on all abortions. So they're there a lot of explosive possibilities that we could see in the case. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone","description":"The fate of a commonly used abortion pill will be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in the high court’s first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago.\n\nThe case centers on the accessibility of mifepristone, the only drug approved specifically for terminating pregnancies, and whether the government applied a lawful review process of the drug when it first came out. 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