{"id":1476732,"date":"2024-02-01T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=d1096ed4a51ee84e548aaa425e5f777b"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:15:51","slug":"aclu-to-scotus-lower-courts-used-junk-science-to-block-abortion-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/01\/aclu-to-scotus-lower-courts-used-junk-science-to-block-abortion-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU to SCOTUS: Lower Courts Used \u201cJunk Science\u201d to Block Abortion Medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amicus brief &mdash; or &ldquo;friend of the court&rdquo; petition &mdash; submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urges justices of the High Court to reject lower court orders that have sought to severely curtail access to abortion medication known as mifepristone. The drug is used in a majority of abortions across the country, and is currently approved for up to 10 weeks of...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/aclu-to-scotus-lower-courts-used-junk-science-to-block-abortion-medication\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/aclu-to-scotus-lower-courts-used-junk-science-to-block-abortion-medication\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower courts &#8220;relied at every stage on patently unreliable witnesses and studies,&#8221; the ACLU said in its amicus brief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[913,39889,22667,28807,51336,4,1369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476733,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476732\/revisions\/1476733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}