Apr 30, 2026 · 38 min · 13 segments
The Supreme Court closed out arguments for the term this week. Jess and Imani are out, but this episode showcases all the biggest cases of the term. Stay tuned for deep dives on the decisions coming…
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Okay, I know this isn't, like, hot burning, right off the presses, but I have to talk about RFK Jr. announcing that HHS, Health and Human Services, will review the, quote-unquote, "safety" of mifepristone.
And the thing is, you and I have been talking about mifepristone for years now, and we talked about the fact that even though during the first round of litigation they weren't going a- or they were not allowed to go after the initial authorization in 2000, but that's what they're going after now.
But now they have this jamoke at HHS who doesn't believe in science, who doesn't believe in vaccines, who's an absolutely a eugenicist.
And so yeah, they're just gonna go ahead and find a bunch of junk scientists to say that mifepristone is so dangerous, it's coming to your...
It does, and especially because what this is, is an astroturf campaign for a national abortion ban, and that's really what I need listeners and viewers to understand, right? As you said, since Dobbs, the antis have been coming for abortion pills.
Back in July, a group of Republican attorney generals wrote HHS complaining about the purported dangers of mifepristone and urging the agency to undertake review of, "Do something, Kennedy, please, anything," okay? This is either a pretext for rolling back approval or revoking it entirely.
We have over 100 studies on the safety of mifepristone, and its approval has been on the market for 25 years.
But the Republican attorneys generals did this because of their attempts to get some kind of national ruling from the courts to block mifepristone.
Imani, you alluded to it earlier, right? We all remember the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case from last term, the one with the d- cooked-up advocacy group, and, you know, filed in Texas.
Well, that legal challenge is still bouncing around the federal courts, and guess who has taken the helm of it? The Republican attorneys general.
Okay, I know this isn't, like, hot burning, right off the presses, but I have to talk about RFK Jr. announcing that HHS, Health and Human Services, will review the, quote-unquote, "safety" of mifepristone.
And the thing is, you and I have been talking about mifepristone for years now, and we talked about the fact that even though during the first round of litigation they weren't going a- or they were not allowed to go after the initial authorization in 2000, but that's what they're going after now.
But now they have this jamoke at HHS who doesn't believe in science, who doesn't believe in vaccines, who's an absolutely a eugenicist.
And so yeah, they're just gonna go ahead and find a bunch of junk scientists to say that mifepristone is so dangerous, it's coming to your...
It does, and especially because what this is, is an astroturf campaign for a national abortion ban, and that's really what I need listeners and viewers to understand, right? As you said, since Dobbs, the antis have been coming for abortion pills.
Back in July, a group of Republican attorney generals wrote HHS complaining about the purported dangers of mifepristone and urging the agency to undertake review of, "Do something, Kennedy, please, anything," okay? This is either a pretext for rolling back approval or revoking it entirely.
We have over 100 studies on the safety of mifepristone, and its approval has been on the market for 25 years.
But the Republican attorneys generals did this because of their attempts to get some kind of national ruling from the courts to block mifepristone.
Imani, you alluded to it earlier, right? We all remember the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case from last term, the one with the d- cooked-up advocacy group, and, you know, filed in Texas.
Well, that legal challenge is still bouncing around the federal courts, and guess who has taken the helm of it? The Republican attorneys general.
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