The Media Research Center spent the first part of this year making a big deal out of a court case that made it to the Supreme Court seeking to ban abortion pills, while dishonestly insisting that the issue was about “administrative law” even though the lawsuit was crafted to go before a right-wing-friendly federal judge who could be counted on to advance the case in the court system to the Supreme Court. Well, the Supreme Court unanimously shot it down, and anti-abortion extremist Tierin-Rose Mandelburg pouted about it in a June 13 post, making sure to fearmonger about the pill in her headline by calling it “Dangerous & Deadly”:
In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the chemical abortion drug. In 2022, a group of concerned healthcare professionals sued the FDA for its negligence in establishing safeguards prior to its approval of the drug. On Thursday, however, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the suit. The FDA will continue its approval of the dangerous abortion drug, and women and babies will remain in harm’s way.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys represented the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, three other medical associations and individual doctors in a lawsuit against the FDA after insisting that the FDA is endangering women and girls. The doctors cited side effects of the drug including; ectopic pregnancies, severe bleeding, and life-threatening infections and noted. They also cited concerns over the fact that the FDA does not require these dangerous drugs to be taken at a doctors office. Women can take them alone at home or in their dorm room. Thirdly, the doctors noted that physicians should be required to report all serious complications from these drugs. As it stands now, they do not have to.
A few months later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the FDA did in fact act unlawfully with its removal of the necessary and important safety standards, and the case got moved up to the Supreme Court for review. This step was promising and the pro-life movement seemed hopeful on March 26, when oral arguments were held.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that they would not reinstate any of the safeguards for the abortion pill. Due to this, the abortion pill will remain widely acceptable and will continue putting innocent babies and women at risk.
In response to the decision, pro-life individuals and groups were heartbroken and terrified for women and babies.
Mandelburg wasn’t going to mention the fundamental gaming-the-system dishonesty at the heart of the case. As we noted, lead plaintiff in the case, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, was created in late 2021 in Amarillo, Texas — home of far-right federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — specifically to advocate for an abortion pill ban with the help of a right-wing-friendly venue. Instead, she quoted only fellow anti-abortion activists similarly lamenting the ruling, then concluded by whining: “What this shows is that even though SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade back in 2022, the fight for life and safety for women and girls is far from over.”
Another post the same day by Sarah Butler complained that the co-hosts of “The View” still don’t trust the Supreme Court despite this ruling:
On Thursday, ABC’s The View’s Joy Behar responded to the recent Supreme Court decision to not restrict access to the abortion drug Mifepristone by attacking the institution itself, proclaiming: “I don’t trust it. But I don’t trust them!”
Surprisingly, co-host Sunny Hostin initiated the segment as she expressed that the Supreme Court’s decision “does restore a little bit of my faith in the court.” Her support for this was the fact that not everyone can “bring a case in front of the Supreme Court.” Hostin alluded to Justice Clarence Thomas opinion on the decision and concluded that this was “black-letter law and they stuck to it.”
Co-host Ana Navarro did not hesitate as she exclaimed, “Well I just have to wonder what flag Mrs. Alito is going to fly today.” The audience cheered and laughed like usual.
Later in the segment, Joy Behar noted that you can get this medication in the mail “just like women have been doing.” But she made it evident that even though decision was 9-0 in her favor, she did not approve of the Supreme Court’s decision as she interrupted Hostin and declared: “I don’t trust it. But I don’t trust them – if Donald Trump gets in, don’t trust this.”
Michael Wnek groused in a June 26 post that MSNBC host Joy Reid “pushed the tired narrative of the Supreme Court’s partisan bias, pathetically expressing displeasure in the unanimous Mifepristone case decision, a clear win for the pro-abortion movement. Instead, the miserable pair insisted that the justices were politically motivated in light of the upcoming election.”
In a June 27 post, Mary Clare Waldron complained that CNN’s Jim Acosta cut the microphone of anti-abortion activist Kristan Hawkins after she repeatedly lied that the abortion pill is unsafe: “Hawkins was speaking about an earlier SCOTUS case, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, one which the left claimed as another victory. It was this criticism that prompted Acosta to literally silence this opposing opinion as Hawkins had her mic cut as Acosta ended the segment.”