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Don't forget how to shut down all these "pro-life" fascists;
"Why aren't you guys talking about taking down the death penalty now?"
And thus prescribed confidentially by USPS anywhere in the country then, right? >

Sounds like it's setting up a commerce clause case, and i have no doubt Alito will decide the founders did not intend for Article 1 to exist when they wrote it in 1787. >

"The founders were absolute geniuses. How else could they have my exact opinions from over 200 years later?" >

If James Madison could see an semiautomatic rifle with a drum magazine he would turn over in his grave. >

The second amendment was intended to extend into siege weaponry and warships. 
I don't think that the founding fathers would have too much issue with being able to kill 100 people with one load out. 
They probably would argue that the National Guard is the well-regulated militia they were talking about though. >

The founding father clearly intended the 2nd ammendment to extend to thermonuclear weapons.
If every white, protestant, land owning, male owned a fusion device then the U.S.A. would be impossible to attack. Who in their right mind would attack a country where a nuke could be hiding behind every blade of grass? >

The year is 3522, the Intergalactic Patriotic Super Supreme Court of the United Solar Systems of America face a new conundrum. The controversial "big rip inducing device" which has long kept peace by ensuring total annihilation of every atom in the universe should it be activated is now being brought into question as a form of 'arm' that the 2nd amendment guarantees the right to for every citizen. The IPSSCUSSofA is expected to rule in favor of freedom from tyranny, and every American will be granted the right to end all existence in the blink of an eye. >

Did I just witness the birth of a copypasta >

Only if you continue to serve it up. That's kind of how this whole shitpost circle jerk works. lol >

The year is 3522, the Intergalactic Patriotic Super Supreme Court of the United Solar Systems of America face a new conundrum. The controversial "big rip inducing device" which has long kept peace by ensuring total annihilation of every atom in the universe should it be activated is now being brought into question as a form of 'arm' that the 2nd amendment guarantees the right to for every citizen. The IPSSCUSSofA is expected to rule in favor of freedom from tyranny, and every American will be granted the right to end all existence in the blink of an eye. >

With tele medicine they should make a  online consultation, prescription and mail the medication to anyone in the nation bypassing the states and  anti crowd completely. >

There are some people who do this, aidaccess offers to mail the abortion pill to any state where it is allowed and it is way cheaper than it would be at a clinic. Not a lot of people know about services like that but they are around. >

cool, but pretty sure they were talking about ALL states, not just those "allowed" to sell them. it's kinda a worthless effort if you're doing all that just to mail them to someone who can walk a block and buy them. >

I actually looked into the site a little further and it can mail to all 50 states but in states where it is not allowed the pills are shipped from overseas and take a bit longer to arrive. >

I can't find anything about this online, does anyone have a link to a full news article? >

Thank you! I don't know how I couldn't find anything on Google
Edit: y'all I'm fully aware of how to use Google to search for news. Nothing came up in the general results or news search results for me. >

Because Google is more about shoving paid ads in your face than what you really want. >

Yep.
If the thing you're researching has any kind of market your results will be multiple pages of ads disguised as information. Ad blockers don't mean shit in 2023. >

Unless you are using Firefox >

I am. And ublock. Firefox doesn't magically make terrible 6 year old pages SEO'd to the top that are thinly veiled ads become any less dishonest.
e: sorry if this sounded rude - I didn't intend that. I meant like... google is increasingly useless regardless of browser. >

Article:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing retail pharmacies to offer abortion pills in the United States for the first time, the agency said on Tuesday, as more states seek to ban medication abortion.
Pharmacies can apply for certification to distribute abortion pill mifepristone with one of the two companies that make it, and if successful they will be able to dispense it directly to patients upon receiving a prescription from a certified prescriber.
The FDA had first said it would be making those changes in December 2021 when it announced it would relax risk evaluation and mitigation strategies, or REMS, on the pill, that had been in place since the agency approved it in 2000 and were lifted temporarily by the government in 2021 due to the pandemic.
Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro, the two companies that make the drug in the United States, submitted supplemental applications that have now been approved by the FDA.
"Under the Mifepristone REMS Program, as modified, Mifeprex and its approved generic can be dispensed by certified pharmacies or by or under the supervision of a certified prescriber," the agency said on its website on Tuesday.
Mifeprex is the brand name version of mifepristone, which in combination with a second drug called misoprostol that has various uses including miscarriage management, induces an abortion up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy in a process known as medication abortion.
The announcement will not provide equal access to all people, however, GenBioPro, which makes the generic version of mifepristone, said in a statement.
Abortion bans, some targeting mifepristone, have gone into effect in more than a dozen states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to terminating pregnancies when it scrapped its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling last year.
Retail pharmacies will have to weigh whether or not to offer the pill and determine where they can do so.
"We're reviewing the FDA's updated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) drug safety program certification requirements for mifepristone to determine the requirements to dispense in states that do not restrict the dispensing of medications prescribed for elective termination of pregnancy," a spokesperson for drugstore chain owner CVS Health (CVS.N) said.
A spokesperson for Walgreens, one of the largest U.S. pharmacies, said the company was also reviewing the FDA's regulatory change. >

INB4 a conservative judge or 6-3 SCOTUS overrules this because the same shoddy reasoning as saying 

The EPA, while created to control pollution, was not specifically given power over carbon dioxide by Congress. So that pollution limit, set by the EPA, is UN-enforceable." source >

CO2 was not widely considered a pollutant when the EPA was created.
This abortion pill thing is different.  When the court overturned Roe they said the constitution is silent on abortion so the federal government has no say.  When the federal government has no say, the constitution says the states have jurisdiction.  The FDA can approve the pill but some state will ban it setting up either a “states cannot ban pills approved by FDA” or an “interstate commerce challenge “ when a state who allows the pill sends it to one that doesn’t. >


CO2 was not widely considered a pollutant when the EPA was created 

This is infuriating. What kind of science agency only works within the bounds of what existed when it was founded? Imagine if the Royal Society refused to consider concepts that did not exist at the time of its founding. Or if NASA refused to use technology unless it was available in the 1950s >

With this logic then the FBI cannot investigate online fraud because the internet did not exist back then. >

Whoa that sounds like something poor people commit; you better get your hands in the air so the cops shoot you right. >

That is correct, u/Vaginal_Rights >

This is progress but this medication should be OTC given its stellar safety record and to foil forced pregnancy proponents. >

You can already buy it for horses at your tractor supply. >

But is it in a dose humans can take? I remember a lot of people trying to shut down their liver last year due to horse dewormer. >

It's usually possible to figure out what the prescribed weight should be and derive it from that. >

The tolerances in veterinary medicines are less stringent than for humans. The drug within the mount you are measuring is more variable and puts you at higher risk. >

Actually nope, most veterinary meds are also human meds.  They are held to the dame quality standards unless using a compounding pharmacy. >

Yep, my cat was prescribed clopidogrel which is for humans. Kind of a problem because to dose it right it has to be cut into fourths, which exposes the extremely bitter inside of the pill that makes him salivate excessively if he tastes it, so administering it can be difficult. >

So that's why my cat drools like fucking crazy when I have to give him allergy meds >

Could states ban this? I understand the Supremacy and Commerce Clauses well enough, but I also don’t see why this could not be legally recognized by a red state as a controlled substance.
Different states have different policies on marijuana for medical use, ranging from complete bans to regular medical prescriptions. Could these abortion pills not also be regulated the same way? >

States don’t really have the authority to “legalize” marijuana. If the federal government cared enough the legal marijuana experiment would be over immediately. There is nowhere in America where weed is actually legal to buy, sell, grow, possess, etc. >

Can you expand on why this is the case? >

States can’t overrule the federal government. >

So then why is there "legal" weed? >

"Legal" in the sense that a state is pretty much washing their hands of enforcement at a state level jurisdiction and placing the ball in the court of the DEA that is woefully ill equipped to go bust random people with an Oz in their car.
The DEA has done some raids on dispensaries, but they're very few and far between to make any real impact. >

Why did the DEA choose to raid a few dispensaries? >

This was back in the earliest of legalization days.  It mostly stopped when enough places came online that the cat was basically out of the bag. >

Fine by me, I’m all for choice! The more accessible, the better. >


Retail pharmacies will have to weigh whether or not to offer the pill and determine where they can do so.

Anti-abortion terrorists revising their death lists as we speak. >

I was born and raised in the south.  at the age of 19, in 1999, I asked for a morning after pill at my health unit.  I was told no one would prescribe that to me in my area. 
I wonder if pharmacists and docs will just refuse to prescribe. >

Great now do albuteral >

Isn't that asthma's rescue inhaler drug? Is it not otc? >

It is unfortunately used as a performance enhancing drug in many sports, so this is also unlikely. ~~At the same time you can't get the old style epinephrine based inhalers OTC either.~~ edit: The OTC inhaler was discontinued for 7 years, but is back now. >

You can buy Primitene mist OTC still they just did away with the one with CFC's. I believe it's behind the counter like sudafed. >

You can but buy Primatene mist OTC  but it’s not albuterol as the active ingredient…it’s epinephrine >

Good, give women the choice of whether or not they want a 20+ year financial, emotional commitment.
Edit: adding physical and mental to the list >

Most importantly the choice to not risk life and limb to undergo a 9 month disability culminating in one of the most painful things a human can experience. It is shocking how little regard you'd have to have for women to think forcing something like that is okay, it's literal torture. >

I read a comment here once from a father-to-be who said a doc told him, “birth is the time when women are closer to death than most people know” or something to that effect. Pregnancy and birth destroy our bodies. They are dangerous to both mother and child. It’s not something to force on people lightly. >

A lot of people don’t understand or fail to mention that, for a lot of anti-abortion, pro-“life”, religious zealots, that a fundamental belief lies in the fact that, for centuries, it was believed that women found their salvation through being lorded over men and through birthing children, as found first in Genesis 3:16:
“To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.’”
And it’s more explicit in the New Testament, in 1 Timothy 2:15: “Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.”
Even if people don’t explicitly believe this anymore, there’s a lot of stigma around women who don’t have children in religious communities than there is outside of them. This kind of thinking in “all women must go through a near death experience that is birthing a child and having to raise it” is pigeonholed into and applied to ALL women as a default since it’s ultimately found in the Bible.
I mean, the else or women going to do with their lives, time, energy and money without kids to raise, huh?…/s >

The republicans - 
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Give them a second.
They're currently trying to smudge the historic precedents set about by years and years of people living their life without issue- because it's not amusing enough for them behind their castle walls. >

They’re too busy squabbling among each other deciding who should be House speaker >

Republicans: WE LOVE CAPITALISM….wait not like that >

Since when does Reuters have an article limit??? >

Religious extremists in shambles >

Republicans are about to tear the FDA apart telling them they don't have any power. >

Question, is the FDA political at all? Did a Biden presidency elect a new FDA head? Would a republican presidency somehow affect the FDA ruling on such a thing? >

The FDA was founded in response to the public political fallout of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and other issues with adulterated products causing injuries and death.
Anyways, any government agency can be tampered with.  The USPS for example was undermined heavily in response to the spike in mail-in voting, not to mention the long history of undermining the postal service over the decades in various other ways. >

It's like this in Canada, but good luck finding a doc or pharmacist that will give you it.
Chances are 99%, you will still need to go to an abortion clinic.
Guess how many abortion clinics are in Alberta? Two. Guess where they are? Edmonton and Calgary.
Really convenient for the folks up far up north and down south.
What they really need do is make them so they are at least available without a prescription. Cough cough it's a small, and easy thing to implicate Liberal and NDP parties of Canada. >

You can get the prescription through telemedicine and have it mailed to you if you're not able to access a pharmacy. It's been done this way in Canada for a long time. Call telehealth in your province for advice >

It has nothing to do with telehealth my friend.
You still need the prescription. Just because the doctor is virtually meeting you, doesn't mean they will give you a script. >

This should last a few days or so >

This is great! Abortion is healthcare. >

Wow, finally. After over 100 years in women's rights struggles we have a sliver of autonomy back. Good work gals. >

This won't last past the next presidential election. Until then, pharmacies are free to refuse to dispense them, depending on the religion of the pharmacist. >


FDA records show a small mortality case number associated with mifepristone. As of June 2021, there were reports of 26 deaths linked with the pill out of 4.9 million people estimated to have taken it since it was approved in September 2000.

By comparison:

New international data show the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. continues to exceed the rate in other high-income countries. In 2020, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. was 24 deaths per 100,000 live births — more than three times the rate in most other high-income countries.

So to put it in equivalent figures, in 4,900,000 people taking mifepristone, there were 26 deaths.  In 4,900,000 pregnancies in the US, 1176 end in death.
Go fuck yourself Marjorie Dannenfelser. >

Can't wait to abort myself >

Nope. Thats illegal too! >

Good.  Fuck these religious zealots and their bs agenda. >

This isn't Plan B though. This is mifepristone. Not the same at all. >

Hope they do birth control pills next >

Hip hop hooray!! No more using the coat hanger on my ladies anymore! Thank goodness!! >

Don't worry. Soon we will learn that the FDA does not have the authority food or drugs. >

Lmao what >

It's a joke based on the recent Supreme Court ruling on the EPA. Hopefully it remains a joke. >

Hallelujah! Personhood for pregnant American women, regardless of State, WILL be ultimately restored, much like Dred Scott was overturned. >

I thought they already were. Good, but this whole fiasco will be resolved in a few years and ruin the lives of many people in the meantime.
So they lost the war on drugs and they've decided to start a war on women reproduction rights. I'm hardly surprised.
Anything to promote outrage and keep the poor people fighting amongst themselves. Fucking stupid.
I seriously hate this reality.
I always vote and do my best every day to be the best person I can be. Maybe it's legit useless. I seriously don't see my vote making a difference and people still hate life despite how positive I am.
Edit: I think dogs can help >

How will supply side Jesus ever recover from this? >

This is wonderful news. >

And my state is going to ban them in 3…2…1… >

Good to know, now to hopefully never need them so me and my gf can avoid getting judged by the old Christian lady working the counter. >

Does this mean Mark Cuban can sell it? >

I just love how it’s being thrown in republicans faces; “abortion pill” terminology now that it is too late for them to have a say about it. >

Finally a bit of good news. I hope Roe v Wade can be re-formed. The ability to perform an abortion should be the  basic right of anybody in the USA.     
I would like to see the statistics on stores that allow the sale of these products. Say for example if Shoppers will sell them in California but not in Texas or if they will still sell them everywhere.     
I am not entirely sure of how the laws work in these states with selling abortion medication such as the 'Plan B' pill. Where is the line drawn between contraception and abortion medication? >

Plan B is not an abortion pill. This article is not about Plan B.