This Could Be the Biggest Blow to Abortion Rights Since Roe Fell

Ms. Filipovic is a journalist, a lawyer and an author.

On Friday, the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked a Food and Drug Administration rule that allows doctors to prescribe the abortion pill mifepristone via telemedicine. The decision sends a clear message: No woman in America, no matter where she lives, has total control over whether to continue or end a pregnancy.For women in red states, where abortion clinics have been forced to close, this ruling is an attempt to sever one of their final tethers to safe abortion procedures. For blue-state women who may have believed they were protected by dint of their ZIP code, it could come as a shock: A judicial panel of........

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