Demonstrators hold an abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court on March 26 as the justices of the court heard oral arguments in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine . Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America hide caption Some abortion providers were stockpiling mifepristone.
Others were preparing to use alternative drug regimens to terminate pregnancies. But the Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to uphold the FDA’s rules on abortion medication means none of that is necessary, at least right now. "We continue business as usual,” says Lauren Jacobson, a nurse practitioner in Massachusetts who provides abortion pills, including mifepristone, by mail.
“The Supreme Court has not made it more difficult than it already is for people to get access to abortion pills.” Jacobson, who works for Aid Access, one of the largest abortion-by-mail organizations that sends pills to all 50 states, says so far today, she’s written about 30 prescriptions for mifepristone. In New Jersey, Dr.
Kristyn Brandi was in a meeting with staff at a clinic that provides abortions this morning, planning to discuss contingency plans if mifepristone was no longer available. “All of a sudden, all of us get pings on our phones and realize that the results came out, that it was unanimously — so shocking, unanimously — dismissed,” she says. “All of us just stood still for a second — we were all in shock and just so thrilled and relieved that this was n.
