GenBioPro

Yeah, so facilitated, obviously, by the FDA's decision, it's a very coordinated effort.

Not only do you have facilitators like Aid Access, for example, advertising where you can get these drugs in pro-life states where they're unlawful, you also have the manufacturers of the drugs, Danko and GenBioPro, their own websites also linked to website portals that will tell women how to get these drugs in states where they're unlawful.

So you see this trickle down where it's an entire scheme.

Of course, the FDA itself doesn't send abortion drugs across state lines.

Now, the plaintiffs are represented by attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom, or the ADF, and the defendants are represented by attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice.

And the intervener or defendant, Danko Laboratories, is represented by private counsel, the firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP, and the intervener defendant, GenBioPro, is represented by lawyers from the Democracy Forward Foundation.

Some quick background on Markazich.

She is a Louisiana resident who was part of the lawsuit because of her claims that her boyfriend tried to coerce her into ending a pregnancy by mailing abortion pills from an out-of-state provider.

Thank you, Your Honors.

May it please the court, John Elwood for intervener, GenBioPro.

I just want to begin first by following up on one of Judge Richmond's questions about what exactly is at issue here.

The REMS modification here was a very modest one.

Actually, that rule traced back to a 2021 review that a federal court in Hawaii had already ordered.

GenBioPro's lawyer then stood up and took apart Louisiana's scariest number.

Louisiana claims that ER visits jumped from 4% to 11% after the in-person requirement was lifted, but the real number is 6 to 8%, and even that doesn't mean that anything went wrong.

Half the people that went to the ER got checked out and sent home, no problem.

In-person dispensing back on the books everywhere while the appeal plays out.

Now, here come the pharma companies, GenBioPro and Danco, who manufacture Miffy, went to the Supreme Court and asked the court to freeze the Fifth Circuit order suspending the FDA rule.

And the Supreme Court said yes, with Thomas and Alito dissenting because surprise, surprise.

Thomas went so far in his dissent as to say the manufacturers of mifepristone weren't entitled to protection from lost profits from their, quote, criminal enterprise.