LOADINGERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON ― Inside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, justices seemed to wonder why they were hearing a case about blocking distribution of medication abortion.Outside the court, plenty of others were wondering how they ended up here again, on the steps of the court, fighting to protect women’s reproductive rights. Again.Advertisement
“I’m 70 years old and we were talking about this when I was in college, and that’s insane to me. That, you know, 50 years later we are still fighting this fight,” said Jane Amgarola, a retired educator from Washington, D.C.“It’s getting, you know, closer and closer to Handmaid’s Tale,” she added.Susan, an 85-year-old woman from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, said she’s been fighting for women’s and civil rights for decades, and Tuesday’s protest at the court felt like yet another round. She was even at the 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr. Only one thing feels different from that day, said Susan, who asked to go by her first name.“It’s colder now,” she said.Demonstrators participate in a abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices of the court hear oral arguments in the case of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. The case challenges the 20-plus-year legal authorization by the FDA of mifepristone, a commonly used abortion medication.Anna Moneymaker via Getty ImagesHundreds of abortion rights supporters gathered outside the court as justices weighed arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case brought by conservative groups arguing that the Food and Drug Administration has too loosely regulated mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion.Advertisement
The FDA first approved mifepristone in 2000 and says it has since been used safely by nearly six million people in the U.S. Central to the case are changes to the regulations passed by the FDA in recent years easing restrictions, including allowing it to be prescribed by telemedicine and distributed by mail.Reproductive rights advocates showed up with their signs, their shirts with messages on them, their megaphones and the regular gear of seasoned protesters. Someone from the ACLU was handing out free fig bars as Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” blasted on a speaker somewhere. People led chants. There was a barely discernible lectern where speakers addressed the crowd to periodic cheers. A small group of pro-life activists showed up too, one of whom dramatically laid on the ground as if she had died.Mira Michels was among the abortion rights activists on the scene. She’s a researcher with Aid Access, a New York City-based group that helps women access abortion pills in all 50 states. Michels brought a robot (a Roe-bot, get it?) that rolled around dispensing mifepristone pills. She even ate one.“I took it in front of everyone to show how safe and effective it is,” Michels, in her 20s, said as she explained …
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“I’m 70 years old and we were talking about this when I was in college, and that’s insane to me. That, you know, 50 years later we are still fighting this fight,” said Jane Amgarola, a retired educator from Washington, D.C.“It’s getting, you know, closer and closer to Handmaid’s Tale,” she added.Susan, an 85-year-old woman from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, said she’s been fighting for women’s and civil rights for decades, and Tuesday’s protest at the court felt like yet another round. She was even at the 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr. Only one thing feels different from that day, said Susan, who asked to go by her first name.“It’s colder now,” she said.Demonstrators participate in a abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices of the court hear oral arguments in the case of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. The case challenges the 20-plus-year legal authorization by the FDA of mifepristone, a commonly used abortion medication.Anna Moneymaker via Getty ImagesHundreds of abortion rights supporters gathered outside the court as justices weighed arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case brought by conservative groups arguing that the Food and Drug Administration has too loosely regulated mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion.Advertisement
The FDA first approved mifepristone in 2000 and says it has since been used safely by nearly six million people in the U.S. Central to the case are changes to the regulations passed by the FDA in recent years easing restrictions, including allowing it to be prescribed by telemedicine and distributed by mail.Reproductive rights advocates showed up with their signs, their shirts with messages on them, their megaphones and the regular gear of seasoned protesters. Someone from the ACLU was handing out free fig bars as Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” blasted on a speaker somewhere. People led chants. There was a barely discernible lectern where speakers addressed the crowd to periodic cheers. A small group of pro-life activists showed up too, one of whom dramatically laid on the ground as if she had died.Mira Michels was among the abortion rights activists on the scene. She’s a researcher with Aid Access, a New York City-based group that helps women access abortion pills in all 50 states. Michels brought a robot (a Roe-bot, get it?) that rolled around dispensing mifepristone pills. She even ate one.“I took it in front of everyone to show how safe and effective it is,” Michels, in her 20s, said as she explained …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]