(13 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 13 June 2024
1. Wide of the US Supreme Court
2. Close of the US Supreme Court
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press:
“The Supreme Court unanimously preserved access to an abortion medication that was used in nearly two thirds of all abortions in the United States last year. The court issued its first abortion decision since a majority of conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.”
4. Pan down of the US Supreme Court to protestor holding sign
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press::
“The court was unanimous because although abortion is the underlying issue in the case, the decision turned on the legal concept of standing, which is whether someone has the right to go into federal court at all.”
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6. Pull out of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other Supreme Court justices
7. Wide zoom in of Supreme Court justices
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Washington – 13 June 2024
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press:
”Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the court’s decision, in which he said that the doctors who challenge FDA decisions, easing access to mifepristone did not have the legal right or standing to sue. Kavanaugh, was, of course, in the majority of the court two years ago when it overturned Roe v. Wade. And today’s decision said almost nothing about abortion and the right to an abortion. It was all about the law and the concept of legal standing.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michele Hendrickson, Students for Life of America:
“This is absolutely not the end of the road. We do believe that will be back in the court. There are, you know, women all over the country with standing, who can come forward now. This is just that, that first step, the door has been opened to have this conversation, to put the FDA in check. And I believe more people are going to do that. More cases are going to come up and we’ll be back.”
10. Pan of Students for Life of America protesting outside the US Supreme Court
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press:
“Abortion has been a very potent legal issue. In the past two years. Democrats principally have run on it and intend to do so again. It’s hard to know exactly what impact today’s ruling will have. Although the court has another abortion case that it’s deciding, and taken together those still may provide, some, reason for Democrats to continue running on the abortion issue.”
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STORYLINE:
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone, a pill used in the most common way to end a pregnancy.
The medication was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States last year. Thursday’s ruling is the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.
Associated Press Supreme Court reporter Mark Sherman says the justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication — mifepristone — and the FDA’s subsequent actions to ease access to it.
The case had threatened to restrict access to mifepristone across the country, including in states where abortion remains legal.
Michele Hendrickson, with Students for Life of America, said that this decision by the court is not the end of the road for those against mifepristone.
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