By Lisa Bourne The FDA put women at risk by lowering the standard of care for treating pregnant mothers when it relaxed its own rules for chemical abortion drugs in 2016 and 2021, Heartbeat International argued to the U.S. Supreme Court this past week. Heartbeat, the...
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Supreme Court will hear challenge to Idaho’s Defense of Life Act by pro-abortion Biden administration
By Dave Andrusko On April 24, the Supreme Court will hear the attempt by the pro-abortion Biden administration to defend the indefensible: its use of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act as a lever to force emergency-room doctors to perform abortions...

Countdown to the Supreme Court hearing a case determining whether there will safeguards to the use of the “abortion pill.”
By Dave Andrusko On December 13, 2023, the Supreme Court agreed to “weigh appeals from the Biden administration and drugmaker Danco defending several Food and Drug Administration decisions that made it easier to access and use the mifepristone pill,” according...

Supreme Court to hear first abortion case since Dobbs on March 26
By Dave Andrusko And here we go. The Supreme Court today released its calendar for March oral arguments and said they will hear FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26. It’s the first time since the court’s historic 2022 ruling...
ADF Assists Idaho AG to Defend State’s Life-Affirming Law at Supreme Court
Idahoans and their elected representatives are choosing to protect life. The Biden administration is telling them they can’t. By Kellie Fiedorek In 2022, Alliance Defending Freedom had the privilege of supporting the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office in defending...
Supreme Court Blocks Biden Admin’s Attempt to Force Idaho’s Emergency Room Doctors to Perform Abortions in violation of Idaho’s Defense of Life Act
The order puts on hold the lower court rulings and sets a timeline for oral arguments to be held in April By Dave Andrusko This post will largely be how Daniel Estes, Idaho’s Attorney General, characterized the Supreme Court’s decision that came down last Friday. I...

Chemical abortion harms women. Supreme Court can’t ignore them
More than 50% of US abortions employ dangerous drugs that can harm women By Dr. Christina Francis On Dec. 13, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear a case filed by my organization, three others, and four doctors via our Alliance Defending Freedom...
Next year the Supreme Court will weigh in on the Fifth Circuit’s ruling on mifepristone—the “abortion pill”
By Dave Andrusko As we near the end of 2023, pro-lifers are fixing their attention on the Supreme Court. On December 13, the justices agreed to hear the pro-abortion Biden Administration defend the new REMS put in place last January. These changes remove the required...

Supreme Court to Rule on Whether Abortion Drug Safeguards Can Be Removed
By Dan Hart On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear a case challenging a series of Food and Drug Administration decisions that removed safeguards governing the use of the abortion drug. Pro-life advocates and medical experts are...
Pro-life group to submit thousands of abortion pill horror stories for Supreme Court case
These women's stories expose 'the lies, deceit, and fraudulent 'healthcare' of the abortion industry,' according to the Justice Center. By Calvin Freiburger WASHINGTON, D.C. — A legal brief to be submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming review of federal...