The Supreme Court's Mifepristone case: the right's backdoor play to ban abortion nationwide

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade a refrain you started hearing from me was, “this is the beginning not the end.” And by that I meant, the right’s oft-repeated remark that their only goal was to return the issue to the states was clearly a smokescreen, and when they had the power they would do what they could to restrict access to reproductive healthcare and more (much more).

Regardless of the outcome of today’s case on mifepristone, what it clearly lays out is the game plan of the right: achieve ideological dominance and enact biblical conservatism through any means necessary. Alliance Defending Freedom’s booming practice, expanded donor base and entry into national lobbying has laid this bare. 

Today the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. That means we won’t hear the Justices' decision for a few months (likely June/July), but we’ll be able to guess what direction they are taking the case by the questions they ask the lawyer…