Lawsplainer of the abortion pill decision
some details I missed, among them,
Fast forward to November 2022, when a shadowy entity formed only after Dobbs (and named the “Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine”), represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, filed a lawsuit challenging the FDA’s 2000 approval of mifepristone and its subsequent revisions to the approvals. The Alliance appeared to operate out of, of all places, Amarillo, Texas—almost surely so that its lawsuit could be filed there…
(Personally, I am so cynical that the prospect that AHM prearranged this lawsuit with the judge is not entirely ruled out.)
The controversial article Matthew Kacsmaryk did not disclose to the Senate
As a lawyer for a conservative legal group, Matthew Kacsmaryk in early 2017 submitted an article to a Texas law review criticizing Obama-era protections for transgender people and those seeking abortions.
The Obama administration, the draft article argued, had discounted religious physicians who “cannot use their scalpels to make female what God created male” and “cannot use their pens to prescribe or dispense abortifacient drugs designed to kill unborn children.”
But a few months after the piece arrived, an editor at the law journal who had been working with Kacsmaryk received an unusual email: Citing “reasons I may discuss at a later date,” Kacsmaryk, who had originally been listed as the article’s sole author, said he would be removing his name and replacing it with those of two colleagues at his legal group, First Liberty Institute, according to emails and early drafts obtained by The Washington Post.
It might be possible to use “Forensic Authorship Analysis” to identify similarities between Kacsmaryks other work and the journal article.
I find to really strange how many of these asshats use “liberty” or “freedom” in their group names. When these are the very concepts they are determined to crush and eliminate. It’s almost like they totally lack self-awareness or something.
The domain was registered 2019. From their site:
Giving ACPed the center stage suggests that the rest are horsequacks too.
next snapshot is june 20 2022, when the site is live.
Dobbs came out on June 24 2022, but of course the decision was leaked.
godaddy says the site was transferred on
Registrar URL: https://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2022-03-09T14:50:22Z
which would predate the leak to politico (May 2, 2022). Oh well.
Gods, i hate ACP.
I live outside the USA, and hadn’t heard of them until today. Looked them up. Wow. The name makes them sound a) innocuous, and b) national-scale. But out of all the doctors in the US, it’s just 500-odd hateful little shits.
Unpacking the flawed science cited in the Texas abortion pill ruling: washington post 13 April
Even fixed, that is way too generous to describe this drek.
Good, bad, ugly.
To argue standing, the anti-abortion groups claimed that their physician members would be harmed because, in the future, they were likely to have to treat patients who had suffered from adverse events after taking mifepristone, creating “enormous pressure and stress” and cognizable harm.
If this gets anywhere, you just know the same assholes will go after puberty blockers and hormone treatment next, using the same “logic.” And wind up before the same asshole judge, who will rule the same asshole way.
And vaccines
But not Viagra!
Except that, if the SCOTUS agrees, someone should go after Viagra, and everything else.
Another baloney doctor group could form an org and go after Viagra in a different circuit using the 5th circuit judges decision as precedent.
I feel like Cialis would be a better choice to challenge since it has more than one on-label use, you know, to inflict the most harm.
The new episode of Sawbones has a very good layperson overview of the history of mifepristone, how ludicrous this situation is, how patently false the argument presented in court was, and manages to make fun of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, pointing out that the actual Hippocratic oath begins with oaths to Apollo and the other Greek gods - just like with the Bible, these people always pick and choose what they like when making their appeals to authority.
Also, fascist assholes topic.
