CV NEWS FEED // Attorneys representing women injured by abortion intend to file a brief with the United States Supreme Court, petitioning the court to protect women from “the lies propagated by the abortion industry.”
On Wednesday, attorneys working for the Justice Foundation announced that they will be filing the brief with the Supreme Court in the coming weeks arguing that thousands of women have been injured by the messaging of the abortion industry. The Justice Foundation is a group that seeks to protect fundamental rights through free legal counsel.
The announcement came the same day the Supreme Court said that it would be hearing a case regarding the use of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. The case could affect who can distribute the pill, how it can be obtained, and in what circumstances it can be prescribed.
Shortly after the Supreme Court issued the landmark Dobb’s decision, lawyers contested in court the use of abortion pills. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court intervened, saying that the drug could continue to be distributed until it issues a final ruling, which is expected to come in June 2024.
The Justice Foundation’s brief contains the testimony of women who argue that they have been physically and mentally harmed by advertisements from abortion providers promoting chemical abortions.
“What they failed to tell me was what was going to truly happen—the intense cramping, the bleeding, the large pieces of bloody tissue I would pass, the nausea, the weakness. I thought I was going to die there all alone. I was sure I needed medical attention, but I was afraid of the exposure of what I had done,” said one woman.
Another woman detailed how the providers failed to explain the process properly, resulting in a horrific experience.
“I took the second pill while lying on my bed, expecting some mild menstrual cramps, as they had told me. That’s not what it was at all—I experienced very intense, painful cramps as my body expelled my baby’s body into the toilet. My baby was disposed of in a toilet. A toilet. I wish so much now that I would’ve taken the remains of that precious little body and buried it,” said another woman.
Early this year, the 5th Circuit Court heard arguments by lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom arguing that abortion pills should be restricted until the Supreme Court intervened. “[The FDA and Danco] are wrong to insinuate that the lower court’s decision takes mifepristone off the market. It does no such thing,” the ADF told the justices in a filing. “The modest decision below merely restores the common-sense safeguards under which millions of women have taken chemical abortion drugs.”
