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Three Years After Dobbs, a Coordinated Campaign Aims to Eliminate Abortion Pills Nationwide
It’s been three years since the MAGA contingent of the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, overturning federal abortion protections. Shortly after, antiabortion groups, law firms, judges and politicians shifted gears, expanding their focus on state-level efforts to ban abortion, along with a multi-layered and relentless national assault on mifepristone—one of two drugs used in medication abortions.
Medication abortion has become the most popular form of abortion in the U.S. post-Dobbs, providing potentially lifesaving access to women residing in states with abortion bans in place. Because of this, the antiabortion right-wing machine’s dogged attacks on mifepristone should be seen for what they are—an attempt at a backdoor national abortion ban.
It may have taken the antiabortion machine nearly 50 years to overturn Roe, but that network has since redoubled its efforts and has tallied up additional wins under a second Trump presidency. As such, the future of mifepristone access is uncertain as ever.
Three years post-Dobbs, the majority of Americans who support reproductive justice deserve to know where this threat to their rights is coming from and how dire it is to ensure the antiabortion machine’s attacks against mifepristone don’t culminate in another Dobbs-level victory.
Medication abortion has become the most popular form of abortion in the U.S. post-Dobbs, providing potentially lifesaving access to women residing in states with abortion bans in place. Because of this, the antiabortion right-wing machine’s dogged attacks on mifepristone should be seen for what they are—an attempt at a backdoor national abortion ban.
It may have taken the antiabortion machine nearly 50 years to overturn Roe, but that network has since redoubled its efforts and has tallied up additional wins under a second Trump presidency. As such, the future of mifepristone access is uncertain as ever.
Three years post-Dobbs, the majority of Americans who support reproductive justice deserve to know where this threat to their rights is coming from and how dire it is to ensure the antiabortion machine’s attacks against mifepristone don’t culminate in another Dobbs-level victory.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/23/three-years-dobbs-roe-mifepristone-nationwide-abortion-ban/