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ADF Urges Court to Speed Up Ruling on Mail-Order Abortion

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom is urging the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to expedite its case against mail-order abortion.

ADF is suing the Food and Drug Administration for removing the in-person dispensing requirement for the abortion drug mifepristone, as part of the agency’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). The group claims that one of the plaintiffs in the case, Rosalie Markezich of Louisiana, was coerced by her boyfriend into taking abortion drugs that he ordered by mail from California. Abortion is prohibited by Louisiana’s law, with few exceptions.

The religious liberty law firm filed its first brief with the appeals court arguing why it deserves relief, and it also filed a motion to expedite the case given the urgency of the matter.

“Every single month, 1,000 lives being taken from this unlawful scheme,” ADF legal counsel Gabriella McIntyre told the Daily Signal.........

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