What’s not to love about “abortion pill” RU-486? 17 percent of abortions in the US are medication abortions, which are less invasive than surgical abortions and easier to access in states that love restricting women’s reproductive choice. This alternative will obviously not do for a number of uterus-fearing state legislators, who hope to take the fight against medication abortion all the way to the US Supreme Court.
Over at Mother Jones, Kate Sheppard explains why pro-choice advocates are concerned that the Supreme Court will likely consider the constitutionality of an Oklahoma law that puts unnecessary barriers on oral medications for abortions, rendering them inaccessible to the majority of women in need. After Oklahoma’s governor signed the bullshit law in 2011, the Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice and the Center for Reproductive Rights sued, and won. Oklahoma lost a subsequent appeal to the state Supreme Court. Human rights: 2; Oklahoma: 0. But the state appealed to the big guns instead of conceding defeat, and the SCOTUS has indicated it’ll consider the case.