In June, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in a case concerning regulation of chemical-abortion drugs, sometimes referred to as the abortion pill. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine involved a challenge to the FDA’s approval process for the two drugs used in chemical abortions — mifepristone and misoprostol — on the grounds that the process had been rushed and politically motivated, risking the health of women who use these drugs.
The Court’s ruling was silent on questions of substance; the justices ruled unanimously that the health-care professionals challenging the FDA did not have standing in the case. In short, the ruling said nothing about the legality and safety of chemical-abortion drugs. And yet, in the course of the past month, both Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have claimed that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of legal chemical abortion — and indicated that they support this fictitious ruling.
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