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News & Current Events May 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM

Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies

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Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies
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Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies
The Supreme Court has restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation.
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oftloghands May 4, 2026 +8904
Keyword: "temporarily "
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eeyore134 May 4, 2026 +3171
They need to time the removal for midterms, either just before or just after depending on which way the evangelical winds are blowing.
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danishjuggler21 May 4, 2026 +1962
After Roe v Wade was overturned, Republicans still won the midterms. One of the most uncomfortable realizations about modern politics is that abortion is not an election-winning issue for the left (even though it should be) P.S. the Democrats “not losing as many seats as they were supposed to” is still losing. Since I know someone’s gonna spew that bullshit.
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powercow May 4, 2026 +1302
nearly 20% thought biden banned abortion. People dont pay attention to shit
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Ok_Presentation_2346 May 4, 2026 +450
Not only do people blame the President in power for the actions of the other two branches of government, they ALSO retroactively misattribute actions of the President in an election year to the candidate who won the election rather the person actually in office that year.
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penguinopph 6 days ago +393
There's real people who blame Obama for 9/11.
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ankhes 6 days ago +263
And Hurricane Katrina. 3 whole years before he won the presidency.
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Therapeuticonfront May 4, 2026 +466
I think there have been massive psy ops conducted by foreign governments into us elections Did you ever read the actual report around election tampering https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116122/documents/HHRG-118-JU00-20230621-SD012.pdf There is an Israeli group called psy-group Who were paid by the Israeli government to interfere This year Israel increased its budget to $750million for online psy ops because their current far right political party is dependent on trump to survive and not have the $30 billion funding for weapons the US gives them every year disappear US voters really need to stop listening to social media because of the amount of disinformation
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CoolBreeze87 May 4, 2026 +329
Yupppp. At this point, anyone who doesn’t realize how much election interference has happened here between the Cambridge analytics bullshit, Russian interference, and Israeli interference, is just plain dumb or really doesn’t care to read up on actual news from multiple sources. I’m sorry but no one should truly think a guy who scammed and conned his way through life, says grab em by the p**** on stage, and lies every other sentence could actually win an election. When he lost the next election, he screamed it was rigged bcHE an and his stooges tried to rig it but the ppl showed up in masses. This time he had Elon help. That f***** basically went on stage and admitted it. And if anyone did their due diligence and looked into what computer engineers have said about elons systems rounding election votes in those swing states, they’d see it as plain as day, they stole those swing states. Not to mention the countless footage of Kamala suddenly losing votes in districts in those swing states. How does she lose votes? Makes zero sense. Biggest tell is when Elon and trump joked about going to prison if they were to lose the election
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Hereandlistening 6 days ago +114
Also look at the down vote trends in 2024. Smart Elections has some interesting data there. [Hakeem] Jeffries ended his press conference on a different note, pointing out the odd contrast that in five of the seven swing states where election results show Donald Trump as the victor, the Senate races and sometimes the majority of down-ballot races were swept by Democrats. “What happened in the other five?” he demanded. (24:24) “In North Carolina,” he continued, “notwithstanding the fact that Donald Trump won at the presidential level, Democrats won the Governor’s race, the Lieutenant Governor’s race, the Attorney General race, the Secretary of State race, and the State Supreme Court, in North Carolina, on that very same day that Donald Trump won the presidential election.”
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DarkScarletJ 6 days ago +72
It’s easy not to recognize when you’re brainwashed by a cult and lack critical thinking skills.
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MNGopherfan May 4, 2026 +121
It’s actually a really bad issue for Republicans which is why they simply don’t talk about it or reference it. Right after the decision overturned Roe almost every Republican cheered loudly and publicly then the fundraising and polling came in and Republicans promptly pulled all of it off their campaign websites and literally never spoke about it. *At least not to the degree they would before Roe was overturned* It’s not that people don’t care about it. Republicans intentionally just don’t talk about it and the media doesn’t hold them to account. The result is the Republicans have made it so that pro-choice advocates have a harder time railing against them for it. Meanwhile a lot of dumb voters don’t realize say when abortion is on the ballot of an election that if they say yes to abortion access and then vote Republican that they just made conflicting choices. It’s about obfuscating not that Abortion access isn’t massively popular.
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subnautus May 4, 2026 +69
> P.S. the Democrats “not losing as many seats as they were supposed to” is still losing. Since I know someone’s gonna spew that bullshit. I mean...historical trends show republicans have an effective tactic of causing the government to come to a screeching halt when democrats are in charge so they can blame democrats for the lack of action. "We didn't get fucked as hard this last time" *IS* progress, even if the result is essentially the same. Same goes for the tried-and-true tactic of constantly de-funding government programs/services to "prove" how ineffective they are. Republicans are good at pointing at people's suffering and complaining loudly. Democrats are bad at pointing out who's responsible for the problems in the first place. If there's anything to blame for people voting for republicans after their lives were made worse by republican policies, it's that.
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_Ub1k May 4, 2026 +29
It definitely is an election-winning issue for Democrats. Like everything, it isn't able to solely able to swing a lot of voters, but it's a giant issue that favors Democrats. The h******* anti-abortion people are usually in deeply Republican areas and have no real impact on contested elections. Most people in the US are pro-choice. There were a number of elections in 2025 where abortion was a big reason for a Democratic win. It was probably the single biggest issue in the NJ governor's race, I know that.
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sherryleebee 6 days ago +39
It shouldn’t be an election issue at all. It’s not political. It’s medical. And personal. People shouldn’t get to weigh in on other people’s rights. It’s barbaric.
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SecretLettuce5 May 4, 2026 +112
Yeah it’s pretty gross how much of America just generally do not care about/or actively hate women.
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themoslucius May 4, 2026 +192
Handmaid's Tale wasn't built in a day
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Edogawa1983 May 4, 2026 +42
They love to do performance shit before midterms and then change afterwards
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brokenmcnugget May 4, 2026 +9
the grift never sleeps
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MetaPhalanges May 4, 2026 +91
Keytimeline: "For another week."
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IntelligentStyle402 May 4, 2026 +28
Until mid terms for sure. Republicans need those votes.
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Then-Data9022 May 4, 2026 +19
As Trump would say. Give it 2 weeks
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Ahelex May 4, 2026 +378
The most permanent thing in the world is temporary government programs.
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Kakamile May 4, 2026 +195
It's not a temporary program. It's a one week pause in the court case.
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unicornofdemocracy May 4, 2026 +28
It's hilarious thinking back....3 years ago when I was establishing my psychology internship/residency program for my hospital and the Medical Education director said, "we prefer government funding for these types of program because its more dependable compared to local donors which can stop anytime without much notice." We literally turned a local donor down though he did ended up funding something else for the hospital. We lost funding during this administration with little to no notice.
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jpopimpin777 May 4, 2026 +31
Somebody important has stock in it.
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atomic_blonde May 4, 2026 +11457
Mifepristone saved me from bleeding out during a non-pregnancy related uterine hemorrhage. The experience radicalized me. I'd go to jail to be sure someone had the chance to obtain it if needed. EDIT: For the men in my comments telling me that it couldn't have been mifepristone, tell it to the surgical team who later removed the burst fibroids from my body that this drug was given to me to address in the moment. Yes, it can be. I trust my incredibly caring doctors throughout the experience, ER through today. You people are revolting.
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Rasilbathburn May 4, 2026 +4337
It’s the main medicine prescribed to treat a missed miscarriage, too. In which case the fetus dies, but the body doesn’t expel it. I had one in 2022, and used mifepristone. Otherwise, the uterus contents can cause infection. We should not have politicians passing laws that don’t understand or care to learn about all of the ramifications of their policies.
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nooniewhite May 4, 2026 +1711
Yes! I’ve had 2 missed miscarriages but needed a D&C each time- I’m sure access to those are limited now in some states. Complications from which could have left my living child motherless, but that’s no big deal to the ghouls
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Kytalie 6 days ago +659
I had someone claiming I am not thinking critically and just repeating lies when I said this would cost women their lives when this article was posted the other day. They don't understand what miscarriage is and how harmful it can be on the body. It can be fatal, but they scream how people don't care about babies and want to murder them. Don't even bother mentioning ectopic pregnancies, they can't wrap their heads around that. I assume they all failed biology.
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Viper67857 6 days ago +435
>I assume they all failed biology. When high school biology is taught by the football coach just because they have to teach *something* to be on staff in a redneck school without the budget for dedicated coaching staff, no one fails, especially not the players.
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secretagentmermaid 6 days ago +174
I’m lucky in that all our science classes were taught by qualified teachers, but unfortunately most of our history and government classes were taught by coaches
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OkTadpole2920 6 days ago +116
WTAF? Is it normal practice to have unqualified teachers, in US schools?
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bmorris0042 6 days ago +86
In some schools, yes. I remember a Junior High (7-8 grade) teacher in algebra who was also a basketball coach, who couldn’t figure out how to average grades correctly. The 10th grade history teacher and both PE teachers were also coaches. The football coach didn’t have an official class, but he was basically the labor for things that needed moved, and the lunch room monitor.
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id_kai 6 days ago +21
Depends on the region, but I went to middle/high school in SE Idaho, and coaches as teachers was absolutely the norm in the two schools I went to. They were extremely under-qualified for what they were teaching, would give anyone on their team leeway when it came to grades, and their mood would be determined by how well the team they were coaching did the previous night. At one point, 50% of my teachers were primarily coaches.
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Dismal_History_ 6 days ago +39
It depends on the state; how qualified teachers need to be to teach. Notoriously, republican states have the worst student stats, and require the least qualifications from teachers. That's where you typically have football coaches teaching history/government/health, and they have no idea how to teach.
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ValancyNeverReadsit 6 days ago +12
American here. I went to a K-12 private school. Public schools (so far, anyway) require teachers to get an advanced degree in education. But private schools basically require teachers have a heartbeat and be able to fog up a window with their breath. Now that said, with a few exceptions I had very good, very intelligent teachers (including my own mom for science classes. She did not have an education degree but she was good at explaining complex topics including intro biology, genetics, anatomy, marine biology, environmental science, and AP biology where most of her students passed the AP exam each year. Late in her career the school also asked her to teach algebra, which she was able to do too! Once upon a time my dad told me her very high IQ number. I’m sure mine is not that high) because my school was billed as a “college preparatory” academy.
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MalonesCones93 6 days ago +10
Our coaches taught science and math but they were also qualified teachers. All were pretty great too. Crazy how you can take for granted the quality of teachers you had as a kid not realizing how it is for many in the country.
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cinnix42 6 days ago +14
Right? I graduated from public high school in NY in 2009. I truly had no idea how absolutely fucked much of the country was even at that time, and it’s only gotten worse. Gutting education for a more easily controlled populace will get you shit like this
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ArtfulDodger1837 6 days ago +25
My AP anatomy/physiology class was taught by the football coach and I'm forever grateful that he actually was also qualified to teach it.
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InternationalAnt4513 6 days ago +19
Rare. Very rare. My dad’s best friend was a great teacher and had been a football coach. He actually liked the academic and intellectual side more than ball. These people are like unicorns.
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ArtfulDodger1837 6 days ago +18
He also wasn't afraid to fail his players and emphasized academics. He was a unicorn.
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circadian-siena 6 days ago +61
Anytime anyone talks about their anti-trans rhetoric with, "It's 7th grade biology, there's XX = female and XY = male!" I'm just like.... 😑 It's middle school biology for a reason. These people would be horrified at their opinions if they actually learned any amount of college biology about sexual development and reproduction.
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Porchmuse 6 days ago +63
These laws are being written by old men.
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EastAd7676 6 days ago +18
There are plenty of women writing and promoting these dumb ass, unnecessary, intrusive laws as well.
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Gaylina 6 days ago +14
As much as it pains me you're right. It's hard for me to watch the ongoing saga of the Duggar sect and not shake a lot of people til their teeth rattle. All this submission bullshit airways comes out in the wash.
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Straight-Ad4211 6 days ago +117
Biology is a science and therefore conservatives think it is woke.
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El_Rat0ncit0 6 days ago +55
These people are so dangerous because they would rather follow and prescribe what is Biblical and not based on biology or science.
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hereforthefeast 6 days ago +69
Interestingly enough the bible does give explicit instructions on how to brew a concoction to induce a miscarriage, basically how to perform an abortion if you suspect your wife is pregnant with another man's child - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%205%3A11-31&version=NIV
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DeusExMcKenna 6 days ago +47
My very conservative Catholic mother has absolutely zero retort for this when I bring it up. She hates it. Seethes. They should take a spoonful of their own medicine if they like it so much.
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TheKingsdread 6 days ago +11
They haven't read or understand the bible either. These people are dangerous because they will believe what the right people tell them (or whatever misconceptions they themselves make up) and will then ignore any evidence to the contrary. And the people they follow are either just as stupid, or they are worse, malicious and lie or invent whatever pushes their agenda no matter the consequences.
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Intrepid-Purchase-82 6 days ago +14
Tbf I'm conservative in many views but I believe in science, I believe in vaccines, and I believe in the right to medical treatment and intervention. The fact that this was illegal at any point on any state is ridiculous.
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Taminella_Grinderfal 6 days ago +15
And they don’t understand how \*often\* this happens. Hell the body often rejects it spontaneously before a woman even knows she’s pregnant. This is what happens when you have a bunch of elderly dipshits in charge of healthcare.
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Cosmo1222 6 days ago +13
Failed biology and then some. No-one with an IQ above room temperature in Celsius would have appointed RFK to a position in charge of vaccination policy. Mix in some old fashioned misogyny.. this Wade vs Roe policy overturn .. disasters are inevitable. The measles incidence rate in some states makes for a good argument in favour of treason. These people think dropping £600 to £10 is a 600% reduction and they're in charge of the economy. The US should recruit imbeciles that would listen to advice, as the current jokers have cloth ears. Edit $..not £. ...egg on face time.
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Kytalie 6 days ago +9
There are many vaccines that were in trials that have been cancelled because of this. Some were even cancelled because there was no point in continuing because of they can't get approved in the US there is no point There have been multiple contamination incidents in near processing plants because regulations were cut... When people are constantly sick, fewer and fewer have the energy to fight back.
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bluecrab_7 6 days ago +33
They don’t even what they don’t even know.
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Funny_Worldliness357 6 days ago +12
I haven’t followed it but there is a Texas congress woman who broke their anti abortion bill days after it was ratified and she should be in jail because of it (under their laws, not my own opinion) She had an ectopic pregnancy, had to leave the state to have the abortion and come back. Under their law she should be prosecuted. Haven’t heard much about it hmm wonder why. Oh and side note she is a republican and voted for this law.
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CloudyTheDucky 6 days ago +35
people want doctors to move the ectopic pregnancy to the uterus “just in case”
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Kytalie 6 days ago +18
Yep. And they claim that both the mother and doctor messed up when it is discovered after it has ruptured a fallopian tube
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CyborgKnitter 6 days ago +225
They wait for the infection to kick in and the mother to be balanced between life and death before they do the d&c in many states now. This is why so many women now refuse to attempt to have kids while living in places like Texas, the risks are just way too high. They want kids, but after experiences of their own or family/friends, they’re too scared to risk death like that.
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Mhammie44 6 days ago +94
They waited until I had an infection to remove my daughter from me long after we knew she wouldn’t make it. Because of the delay, I was in critical condition, hemorrhaged severely, and was hospitalized for two weeks away from my other children that should never have been necessary. There were nurses who apologized because it shouldn’t have had to be that way. My husband didn’t think he was going to see me again. It’s barbaric to kill women for this.
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intellect1ne 6 days ago +35
these are the types of stories these senators should be forced to read for hours and hours until they get it
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Ok-Variation5746 6 days ago +26
I’m so sorry you experienced this. You deserved better. This shouldnt be happening. I’m glad you’re here to speak on it. Sending you (& your family) love 💗
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totally_not_a_dog113 6 days ago +172
Dude, I **really** want a baby, I'm finally making more than enough to afford one, and my job offers basically free IVF, but I'm Black and living in Alabama (home of the highest black maternal mortality rate in the country), so nope.
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ExtremisEleven 6 days ago +70
I’m really sorry. This is horrific for all women to go through but just extra bad for people of color. 😔
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Coelacanth88 6 days ago +47
That sucks. Our state f****** sucks.
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FatNSassy23 6 days ago +47
Our country f****** sucks. Abortion is healthcare. Period.
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Kindly-Deer-3468 6 days ago +40
I’m also from Alabama, luckily moved a few states away. Alabama is currently working to kill itself. Cutting funding and tubberville working to dismantle all government programs meanwhile Alabama receives more in funding than it gives. I don’t even blame you for not trying. I told my fiancé if we end up back in Alabama or similar state having kids is completely off the table and he agreed.
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Ok-Variation5746 6 days ago +24
Reading this raised the hair on my neck. I’m so sorry.
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RepresentativeCry294 6 days ago +25
Yeah that sounds like a death wish. You could be bleeding out and they'd probably just shrug.
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ExtremisEleven 6 days ago +29
Then they blame the doctor for not doing something sooner when she dies. Absolutely disgusting.
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invinoveritas777 6 days ago +43
I have friends who have decided not to try for #2 or #3 because of just this. We live close to a state that would provide care but navigating that while miscarrying would suck. Anecdotally, a friend recently had a miscarriage and needed a D&C and it wasn’t an issue at all. Glad that at least in some cases, women are still able to get the care they need, when they need it.
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masklinn 6 days ago +35
> We live close to a state that would provide care but navigating that while miscarrying would suck. Several counties and states have travel and “trafficking” bans, so it’s still a risk.
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mechanical_stars 6 days ago +24
I literally left Texas because of this. There were other reasons, but this was the biggest one. I narrowed down my possible destination states to only the ones actively taking steps to protect our access to healthcare.
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Apprehensive_You_250 6 days ago +12
As a TX resident, with a now 18 yo, I couldn’t imagine now having a child in TX during these times. Now, as my son gets older, I have to worry about him & his partner when he goes to have kids with someone. I would be leaving this state if we didn’t have to worry about keeping my son in TX for in-state tuition, and hell, would love to leave the country between the lack of women’s/gay peoples’ rights, lack of universal healthcare, skyrocketing college rates, and gun violence…
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lettertoelhizb 6 days ago +94
My wife would have left 2 children without a mother if it was not for this procedure.
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InspectorExcellent50 6 days ago +41
This needs to be a larger part of the conversation.
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Gornarok 6 days ago +35
Not really... 1) It shouldnt matter 2) "Pro-lifers" dont care anyway. They dont give a shit about life. Its just moral grand-standing.
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oopseybear 6 days ago +102
They are practically nonexistent in those states. A 17 year old girl just died in TX because she was having a miscarriage and the fetus still had a heartbeat, even though it was 100% no longer viable. By the time the fetus actually lost its heartbeat "long enough" it was too late to save her. She had SEPSIS and was sent home twice, by two hospital ERs with antibiotics. It's horrific.
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Helpful_Section5591 6 days ago +29
I’m so f****** glad to be in California and cases like this make me absolutely rabid when I hear republicans criticize our policies when they don’t apply to them. I would gladly pay even more taxes and higher gas prices to keep my state blue.
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cofclabman May 4, 2026 +228
It’s not that they don’t understand. These people aren’t as stupid as they seem. It’s just politically expedient for them to vote that way and they don’t care if it kills people. That’s not their problem.
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MimicoSkunkFan2 May 4, 2026 +121
But they're fine with getting "the d&c procedure" aka Abortion for themselves! Even the Quiverfull Christians believe it's okay when they need uterus help but those horrible infidels / brown people / hussies must be banned from doing it. https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
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CHSummers May 4, 2026 +110
It’s part of a pattern of conservative thinking: “My problems are real and you should help me pay to fix it (or bail me out). Your problems are your own fault and you deserve it.” “Until it affects me, it doesn’t matter.”
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Irma_Gard 6 days ago +17
The corollary to [Wilhoit's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilhoit_(composer)#:~:text=Wilhoit%27s%20law&text=Conservatism%20consists%20of%20exactly%20one,binds%20but%20does%20not%20protect.).
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ratmx97 6 days ago +13
The amount of people who think this way is still genuinely astonishing to me.
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cofclabman May 4, 2026 +24
Of course. They aren’t opposed to the need for the procedure and they can afford to go elsewhere to get it done. They don’t give a shit about their constituents.
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RepresentativeCry294 May 4, 2026 +31
It's fine if you are rich and get 24 embryos implanted and "selectively reduce" 23 of them. Just don't be a poor black teen wanting to abort one.
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RefrigeratorFuture34 May 4, 2026 +60
I’m glad it was available and you survived. I am not sure why they are trying to kill women.
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Late_Ad2203 May 4, 2026 +67
Because they want to r*** them all and have their ugly genes spread as much as possible and then abandon it, regardless of what happens to the woman.
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PristineShotForever May 4, 2026 +34
I'm horrified by how their minds work. genuine villain stuff. the "gene purity" obsession makes sense like that though. I'm gonna go look at cute ball python pictures now 🚶
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Late_Ad2203 May 4, 2026 +15
Aww the snek
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Intelligent_Sky_7081 6 days ago +85
> The experience radicalized me. dont let them convince you that youve been 'radicalized' just because you are compassionate and care for others.
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Dysc May 4, 2026 +41
I've seen plenty of clips of conservative state law makers having no idea about any of this type of stuff. They want to regulate bedroom behavior or force pregnancies. They're not here to advocate for their constituent's health or care about human health. They only care about saving souls or are shilling these types of policies for power/money. They are there for an agenda no matter their personal reason. Full stop.
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OutrageousInvite3949 May 4, 2026 +451
Yeah it’s f****** messed up what Trump and co are doing. They’re all pos idiots. I hope the worst for the lot of them. They directly make decisions that actually set forth hardships towards other people.
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Then-Data9022 May 4, 2026 +178
Like the Iran war, Like going into cities and shooting people, like letting people die in Ukraine and Trump not helping them at all, like defunding usaid and letting millions of kids die of starvation and many more things he's done but it would take me to long to list the things he has done to hurt people...
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maxxspeed57 May 4, 2026 +144
Cutting of USAID with no warning is estimated to have cost 600,000 lives, 400,000 of them children. The numbers above represent actual human lives.
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willowdove01 May 4, 2026 +61
It’s way more than that. Last estimate I saw put the projected total at 14 million people, 4 million children
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onarainyafternoon May 4, 2026 +72
It basically saved no money, too. Especially compared to the absolute graft Trump and his cronies are pulling on the American taxpayer. How the f*** did people vote for this evil moron? We literally said shit like this would happen and they laughed at us and called us "dumb liberal alarmists". This is what happens when your entire identity is wrapped up in a political figure and movement that's based on making liberals angry.
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rvdp66 May 4, 2026 +33
Argentina got bailed out by treasury to the tune of USAIDs annual budget.
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mrpersson May 4, 2026 +50
Indeed. Trump and his administration are quite literally reprehensible yet the media get away with framing it as we have "disagreements" with them
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Momentarmknm May 4, 2026 +51
The twist of the knife with that particular tragedy is that there were 500 metric tons of life-saving emergency nutrient packages that were ready to ship out when USAID was shuttered that instead ended up being literally incinerated by this mind bogglingly evil fascist regime.
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CHSummers May 4, 2026 +21
Depending on how you count the deaths caused by Covid-19, Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic cost anywhere from a hundred thousand to, globally, maybe a million lives. In Trump’s first term, one thing he got rid of was a group of scientists responsible for early identification of pandemics. Obviously we will never how that might have reduced the damage from Covid-19.
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supern8ural May 4, 2026 +21
If you're not a rich, white, English speaking man, they don't give a shit about you.
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ladyxsuebee May 4, 2026 +17
They dont give a shit about them either, they just harm them economically.....
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gallifreyan_valkyrie May 4, 2026 +26
It is in Project 2025.
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sonicsludge 6 days ago +8
It's all in there in black and white, and all the voters were like, "No way they'll do any of that!"
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Medical_Solid May 4, 2026 +180
Empathy for other people? Sounds like communism to me! /s I’m glad you survived that. :(
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vrschikasanaa May 4, 2026 +90
My friend had to take it when she lost her baby in utero. Can't really remember but I know she had to take two pills back to back to induce a miscarriage at home, and it was very traumatic for her since she wanted that baby terribly. It breaks my heart to think about all the hoops she would have to take to get access to this, or if there are delays to "prove" that she needs to miscarry - there's no way she could have carried that dead baby a second longer than she needed to, it was devastating to her mental health and was a huge issue for her physical health.
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Gremdarkness May 4, 2026 +47
I feel much the same. My hysterectomy saved my life. I’d be willing to risk a lot to help even my worst enemy get access to gynecological care, abortion or otherwise.
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data_ferret May 4, 2026 +19
You may want to stockpile, then. It has a five-year storage life.
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baseketball May 4, 2026 +52
Republicans accused Democrats of death panels but their policies are literally killing people because they want to play God.
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RefrigeratorFuture34 May 4, 2026 +19
I’m glad you survived! ❤️
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arbitrageME May 4, 2026 +9
this post right here. you're being accused of unlicensed empathy and goodness toward the poor and post-born. please report to your nearest Department of Well Being facility to have your remaining kindness excised
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KaseTheAce 6 days ago +21
Yeah, this is fucked. The whole overturning of roe v Wade was too. People are still going to get the pill somehow. I doubt it's difficult to find on forums. All this does is make it more difficult and less safe to find treatment. Trust me, nobody is using this as a primary form of birth control and saying "I'll just get an abortion", like they seem to think. It's not a walk in the park. Plan B would be so much easier and even it is harsh on the body. Spermicide isn't highly effective. Condoms are the best way with no detrimental side effects when used properly. Restricting abortion access is harmful. [It led to a 50% increase in sepsis rates in Texas. There were excess maternal deaths and infant deaths as well.](https://www.prb.org/news/abortion-bans-linked-to-sharp-rise-in-sepsis-infant-death-and-maternal-mortality-new-research-shows/) Some women couldn't get the treatment needed to save their lives. Plus, like you said, these medications are used for other things.
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Substantial-Use-7018 6 days ago +7
Former NICU nurse here and a mom who also endured the same. It’s essential to life
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PringlesDuckFace 6 days ago +7
I feel like I don't even need to know or care what it's used for to argue for this. If a licensed doctor thinks a legal drug is the right medicine for someone to take, then that person should be able to get it. Whether it's insulin or skyrizi (ask your doctor if skyrizi is right for you) or this drug. People should have access to the care they need, regardless of if they're physically able to be in a place that has it in stock. Are they going to tell some rural Alaska grandma she can't get her medicine anymore because telehealth or mail are banned?
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Queer_Advocate May 4, 2026 +1395
Abortion is healthcare.
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washmyoldbluejeans 6 days ago +157
I dont even care if SOME women wants to "abuse" it as those "christians" put it, dont punish the rest of them for it, makes no sense
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GovernmentOpening254 6 days ago +80
You’re trying to reason with people who believe they suffer because someone’s great\^1000 grandma ate fruit.
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Carlito333 6 days ago +24
The more religious, the more cruel controlling & power-stealing. Forcing children is just a way to get more followers thus more power.
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kaisadilla_ 6 days ago +38
Yes, but this isn't even the case here. The case is that "pro-lifers" want to ban things that help carry out abortions even though, most of the times, these things have other uses aside from abortion. These people will happily let some women die in exchange for making abortions more difficult.
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mamabird2020 6 days ago +108
My doctor denied me this pill in 2022 in Texas during my miscarriage on Christmas Day and I could only get it at a planned parenthood (recently defunded). I just went without. It’s absolutely sickening how they allow suffering.
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faeriegrl1973 6 days ago +45
Doctors are supposed to “do no harm”. I’m so sorry you experienced this at a time when your doctor should have been doing everything to help you.
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Moreobvious 6 days ago +36
I was raised in an ultra conservative home where we learned (homeschooling of course) that most non-Christian women would get abortions as a form of birth control and that partial-birth abortions were extremely common. It wasn’t until I was an adult out on my own that I met so many women that had to have medically necessary abortions. I’m sorry that your healthcare security is getting jerked all over the place by people who remain unaffected by it.
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KimJongFunk May 4, 2026 +709
Note: This is an update to the news from earlier last week. It is a temporary order. Full article text:    > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation. > The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. > Those rules had been in effect for several years until a federal appeals court imposed new restrictions last week. > The majority of abortions in the U.S. are obtained through medications, usually a combination of mifepristone and a second drug, misoprostol. Their availability has blunted the impact of abortion bans that most Republican-led states have started enforcing since a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed for state bans. > Louisiana sued to restrict access to mifepristone, asserting that its availability undermined the ban there. > Some Democratic-led states have laws that seek to give legal protection to those who prescribe the drugs via telehealth to patients in states with bans. > Alito’s order will remain in effect for another week while both sides respond and the court more fully considers the issue. > Manufacturers of mifepristone filed emergency appeals asking the Supreme Court to step in.
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Frick_Abovestory May 4, 2026 +163
It doesn't take the people's needs to restore an abortion pill, ofc not, it takes the *manufacturers* filing an appeal to do something.
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Former-Whole8292 May 4, 2026 +64
was it Alito & other judges?
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bros402 May 4, 2026 +142
only one judge has to overturn an injuction
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Ra_In May 4, 2026 +43
The justices each have different circuits assigned to them where they alone review initial injunction requests. This just provides time for the full court to review, although any update may be an unsigned shadow docket ruling where we don't know who voted on it.
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IIIIIIlllllIIIIIIlll May 4, 2026 +2077
Mifepristone abortion saved my life
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ladychomsky May 4, 2026 +639
We can go to hell together don’t worry
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Ahelex May 4, 2026 +236
Maybe Hell is the better Heaven.
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bapakeja May 4, 2026 +166
We’re currently in Hell, imo
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Oprah_Pwnfrey May 4, 2026 +78
Ooooohh, THIS is the bad place.
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RoJayJo 6 days ago +43
*Jason* figured it out? Oof, that's low, that's a new low.
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Ahelex 6 days ago +20
Look, when you have to reset the simulation for the 700th time, motivation drops off a cliff.
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UBC145 May 4, 2026 +24
Who knows, maybe we all really fucked up in our previous lives.
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DARfuckinROCKS May 4, 2026 +91
Me too not because it was medically necessary but because I would literally kill myself if I had to carry a baby to term.
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BrookeStardust May 4, 2026 +85
I'll consider that medically necessary.
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skip6235 6 days ago +23
Motion passed
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claimticket May 4, 2026 +949
It ISN’T JUST an abortion pill! Mifepristone saves lives providing treatment for missed miscarriages (and 100% non viable ectopic pregnancies). Calling it an abortion pill adds to the misinformation problem. It is used for abortions, yes, but that is not its only use. ETA for visibility: there is a reply saying I have it backwards because medically, miscarriages are “technically” considered abortions, and thus fall under abortion care. While this isn’t untrue, most people do not consider miscarriages abortions, so my comment still stands, IMO. Even many non-pro-choice people would oppose to restrict miscarriage care, because people don’t en masse use the term “abortion” for miscarriage (and miscarriages obviously aren’t a choice)- so while I understand their point, I still find my original comment to be a necessary distinction in this discussion.
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MommyLovesPot8toes May 4, 2026 +48
All of that is part of abortion care. It is precisely why regulating "abortion care" is so complicated and fraught with different viewpoints. Most adult women understand that "abortion" does not mean "I got pregnant because I am an unwed s*** who didn't use protection and now I don't want to raise this baby". Yet that is one of the only scenarios conservative men (in particular) think of when they think about abortion. They either do not care or do not know that millions of wives and mothers and devoted partners, all of whom conservatives would "approve of" will die because they (the men) are so desperate to subjegate women sexually. We cannot let them get away with sticking their heads in the sand about the full picture of abortion care. We have to make sure ectopic pregnancies, incomplete miscarriages, unviable pregnancies, etc are inextricably tied to all conversations about abortion care. It is ALL abortion care. There's no point in arguing that the "unwed s***" has every right to have sex and choose not to have a child. They'll never agree on that. The only winning argument is that theres no way to block *that* without blocking everything else that relies on the same medication and treatments.
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Opening-Calendar3421 May 4, 2026 +35
Let's not let conservative women off the hook here, if anything they are equally as awful for voting pro life because they are well aware of the stakes and are much more familiar with the risks of pregnancy (unlike ignorant conservative men) and choose to hurt their fellow women anyway.
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Elliebird704 May 4, 2026 +136
You’ve got it a bit backwards. The misinformation is in considering the treatment of those issues as something other than abortions, when that’s exactly what they are considered. ‘Abortion’ as a term, and as a treatment and procedure is not strictly the termination of a *viable* pregnancy. People’s ignorance on that specific has caused so many problems. The people pushing for abortion bans not even knowing what they’re voting for, or the impossible situation they put doctors in. The definition in the language used is broad.
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Olmcdnld May 4, 2026 +68
This! Everyone prolife person I've talked to doesn't understand that miscarriages are also getting banned
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CricketsCanon May 4, 2026 +9
Its almost like we should choose our words carefully and when a word becomes misleading for being too broad a new word should be implemented to avoid confusion.
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hermitsociety 6 days ago +107
My sister died from pre-eclampsia. She didn’t know until too late that she was so sick (a different failing of the health system) but after she died, I went on many charity walks with women who had also had that condition. And ALL of those women had miscarried pregnancies because of it, many needing this medication to complete the loss safely. I always wonder if we could have done more for my sister if we had known sooner. These days I feel sure that conservatives would have let her die anyway rather than walk back their sanctimonious, uninformed, and dangerous anti-abortion rhetoric. Half the women I know had a miscarriage at some point and needed a medical intervention in the form of this drug or abortion. I’m sick to death of people acting like someone’s dead fetus just magically teleports out of the womb all neat and tidy. One friend of mine had to abort one twin to save the other twin. Another friend found no heartbeat at 7 months into their pregnancy. And another friend tried for years to adopt and ran into the realities of how hard it is, and ultimately implanted someone else’s donated embryo. I am tired, tired, tired of zealots who don’t know the first thing about women’s health trying to limit medical options for women. Pro-choice forever, I’ll die on this hill.
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RedCliffsDaisy 6 days ago +15
Well said!
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Butthole_Surfer_GI May 4, 2026 +219
I'm a nurse - 2 months ago I had to call 911 for a woman with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. I work in a clinic so I basically had to sit there holding her hand waiting for the ambulance while she bled out and lost consciousness. It was pretty abrupt and early in her pregnancy so I don't know if it even would even have been detected by an ultrasound or if mifepristone would have been the first choice treatment. BUT I think about women who may be further along and who may need mifepristone in order to prevent a potentially tragic outcome and I just feel so sad and helpless that this country is essentially playing games with women's healthcare/wellbeing/lives.
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McSwearWolf May 4, 2026 +50
(OK for some reason my comment posted twice so I deleted it) but ANYWAY I was just trying to say thank you for being there for your patient. The same thing happened to my sister and she almost died but because she lived in California and because of Planned Parenthood, an awesome nurses like you, she made it. 🙏
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bedrotter_ May 4, 2026 +153
A few years ago I lived in Texas. I was in an extremely abusive relationship with a man who controlled every aspect of my life, sexually assaulted me and tampered with my contraceptives. I'll never forget how relieved I was that discreetly receiving mifepristone in the mail was an option for me
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Mother_Sprinkles_159 6 days ago +15
This is so heartbreaking 😞💔 thank you for sharing your story
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deadra_axilea May 4, 2026 +35
Good thing states can just now make laws that just override all federal regulatory standards....Oh wait.
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JerryDipotosBurner May 4, 2026 +224
> Alito’s order will remain in effect for another week while both sides respond and the court more fully considers the issue They’re gonna do this, then uphold the ban, aren’t they?
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SangersSequence May 4, 2026 +124
Of course, this is just theater so they can pretend to be consistent on the "no nationwide injunctions" bullshit.
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Deranged_Kitsune May 4, 2026 +21
They need some more time for their owners (and themselves) to rig the market.
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Shoryukitten_ 6 days ago +120
Breaking News: The Supreme Court rules it is unconstitutional to rule that something constitutional is unconstitutional in a landmark case of Common F****** Sense v. Whoever Runs the World
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ProfessorStein May 4, 2026 +201
People are not ready for how ugly things will get if they don't take their foot off the gas here. Blue states are not going to let red states ban medicines in their own states. Like this is a direct road to blue states saying "we don't care, go away" to courts
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HowManyMeeses May 4, 2026 +72
Yep. They've walked a fine line with their bullshit, but this sort of thing is going to result in states saying "good luck enforcing this."
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angiosperms- May 4, 2026 +36
Tbh I wish it would happen sooner. Yeah it would be a shit show, but we're already in one. What's the alternative, we sit back and lose all our rights to keep the peace?
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Laranna 6 days ago +87
The first thing they e done right since 2015. F****** BARELY.
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ChartSea8204 May 4, 2026 +43
Temporary = Soon banned again.
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InevitableStatus4289 6 days ago +45
If men were the ones that got pregnant, there wouldn’t ever have been a consideration.
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SupposedlyTolerable 6 days ago +22
If that were the case, abortions would be easy to obtain and free!
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bloodlst May 4, 2026 +49
“restoring access” like it wasn’t stripped, litigated to death, and dangled over people’s bodies as a political bargaining chip in the first place. how generous. really groundbreaking stuff!!!
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Any_Pumpkin5753 6 days ago +48
Plan B has a 5 year shelf life. Pass it on.
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obeytheturtles May 4, 2026 +75
Even Alito couldn't figure out how to twist this around their previous universal injunction decision.
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colemon1991 May 4, 2026 +126
SCOTUS better not let this sit for months and stay banned during that period after this one week. I think this is the laziest court in history on top of the corruption.
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8__D May 4, 2026 +76
The laziness is strategic
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Sharobob May 4, 2026 +33
Yeah they've shown they will fast track anything that is essential for the GOP to gain more power
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Inevitable-Opinion21 6 days ago +26
Reminder: They will never ever ever stop abortions! They can only make safe abortion more inaccessible!
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littleemilythrow 6 days ago +33
The thing about banning abortion is that all it does is kill people and babies. That is literally the only outcome of abortion bans: increased infant and maternal mortality. If your goal is truly the reduction or even the elimination of abortion, we statistically know what works: Free contraception that is widely available. Comprehensive sex education that is taught at multiple level levels for age-appropriate concepts. Social conditions that allow people to both work and raise children without becoming destitute. But these f****** forced birth assholes only focus on banning abortion. They only want to hurt women and babies. If they actually gave a f*** about life, they would listen to the data, but they don’t. They literally just hate women whether it’s conscious or unconscious. In fact, anyone advocating for an abortion ban of any kind without first going to the mat for supporting parents and engaging in a society that supports thoughtful and informed family planning, is f****** evil and cannot be part of a functional society. Because the last layer of reducing abortions or even eliminating them is the hardest: Staying the f*** out of other people’s business and stopping yourself from demanding that the government uphold your fairytale because you’re scared that if no one else believes it that you’ll look silly and you won’t actually get into heaven. In fact, I think that that’s something that the most extreme Christian nationalist have in common: they are atheists or nihilists deep down, but they are terrified of death and feel the constant allure of fatalism (which literate people with resources available to them try to respond to through practical means like therapy or journaling, or finding a community that you can be a part of that isn’t a f****** cult), and so they absorb themselves in zealotry and righteous hatred. These people live their lives, hypnotized by cult doctrine.
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JournalistFragrant51 6 days ago +27
Politicians should refrain from trying to practice Gynecology or Obstetrics. Its going to end badly.
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DRangelfire 6 days ago +37
This f****** administration that we’d even have to litigate this is insane.
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sonicsludge 6 days ago +10
Good, it shouldn't have been touched to begin with but our sack of shit POTUS couldn't think of anything else to use as leverage to get the votes from the religiously inept sheep who actually think he goes to church. The man stayed as far from church as he possibly could and probably hated having to even associate himself with it.
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Gilgamesh2000000 May 4, 2026 +28
They are scared the birth rate fell 20% in 20 years. Pay us a living wage to fix that.
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allchattesaregrey 6 days ago +30
At this point I feel like so many of these efforts are just to enrage people and see just how much they can away with. It’s really exhausting going though the constant ups and downs of rights maybe taken away, ooops just kidding, wait no- now it’s this- but only these states- just kidding everyone threatened now too. About everything. F****** make it stop.
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kalemeh8 May 4, 2026 +21
Even *if* Lousiana manages to force a nationwide mife mail ban, most telehealth providers will move to full miso. Not ideal but an alternative while they work on the other better alternatives that have been in the pipeline since Dobbs.
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zonitonya 6 days ago +22
Cool, now give us national full access to safe abortions and put Roe v Wade back.
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KittyGrizGriz 6 days ago +21
These fuckers keep wasting time and money with frivolous lawsuits. If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one. Damn I get so tired of this! Abortion is healthcare.
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RoccoAmes May 4, 2026 +7
If only it was available prior to June 14th, 1946...
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FrostyWhile9053 6 days ago +7
I know it says temporarily but I’ll take any win I can get right now
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discowithmyself 6 days ago +7
I know it’s the headline and not OP calling it this but it’s more than just an abortion pill. It’s got other uses, so there are a bunch of people that aren’t pregnant who will be affected when they go back to trying to ban it.
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Rhodyrocks 6 days ago +8
If only men got pregnant these points would all be moot. Smh
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chebuburashka 6 days ago +15
Used it when I was raped in 2005. No regrets. I would help any woman access it to the best of my ability.
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Superjam83 May 4, 2026 +23
One of their donors knock up a young debutant?
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peachnecctar May 4, 2026 +6
Although I’m very upset that it’s only temporary, thank you so so dearly to the few sane people who made this temporary reverse. This is life saving medication. Also many people like myself don’t even use it for avoiding pregnancy, I used it to avoid my periods because I’m already chronically ill and a period on top of that is hell. It’s also saved my life in situations I won’t talk about, but this is the case for so many
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Jamsedreng22 6 days ago +7
Absolutely crazy. Who in their right mind would figured forcing births would just be a lot of women going "guess I¨ll die?"
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