Erin M. Hawley's, the wife of Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, stupid attack on the abortion pill

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7. Her justification is laughable

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-courts-anti-abortion-conservatives-100007255.html

I knew of this case but not of how desperately stupid the core argument is. Some quotes:

"..the FDA says serious complications are "exceedingly rare," noting that more than 5 million women in the U.S. have used the medication since 2000."

"When used in medication abortion, major adverse events — significant infection, excessive blood loss or hospitalization — occur in less than 0.32% of patients," they wrote."

"..Erin Hawley argues they have legal standing to sue the FDA because some of the group's members work in emergency rooms, and they could be forced to treat patients who took abortion pills and went to a hospital because of bleeding or other complications.

"When faced with these emergencies, [the doctors] have no choice but to provide immediate treatment, even though this kind of participation in an elective abortion harms their consciences and injures them in other ways," Hawley wrote in her brief to the court."