Mifepristone On Trial: Elie Mystal On The New Abortion Access Emergency In The Courts

04/10/23 • 24 min

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With the medication abortion drug mifepristone currently going through a pair of legal challenges, we explore the courts' role in regulating medicine. On today's show, Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, consultant for Radiolab, and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022), offers analysis of recent political headlines, including the abortion drug rulings. Plus, the expulsion of two young Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House of Representatives, and new reporting on previously undisclosed luxury gifts accepted by Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Tennessee House Expels Two Black Lawmakers

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After days of protests for more gun control laws after a school shooting last month, two Black lawmakers in Tennessee's House were expelled for their roles in the protests. Blaise Gainey, political reporter for WPLN, reports on what happened and what might happen with both gun laws and the lawmakers in the coming days.

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A Doctor And A Reproductive Rights Lawyer On Mifepristone and Misoprostol

As the nation watches for two federal courts' divergent rulings on medication abortion drugs, we explore the medicine, and the law underlying the cases. On today's show, Nancy Northup, President & CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, explains what's on the horizon legally for mifepristone, and Dr. Kristyn Brandi, MD, OB/GYN, and abortion provider in New Jersey and Board Chair with Physicians for Reproductive Health, covers the medical ramifications of the rulings for those in need of the drug.