A federal appeals court just upended access to medication abortion. Demand Federal Action on Abortion Rights and Access 2MAI26

THIS call to action from the ACLU is from 2 MAI, today, 4 MAI, scotus has restored access to Mifepristone until 11 MAI while this case is reviewed by the court. Please sign the petition to Congress telling them to pass legislation protecting a woman's right to choose her reproductive healthcare options whenever she needs to make a decision. Share this with as many as you can and please take the time to e mail your representative and senators with the same message. My e mails will be at the end of this post.....

Yesterday, a federal appellate court ruled that health care providers can no longer mail the abortion pill mifepristone to their patients, cutting off access to a safe and effective medication for countless people. Unless the Supreme Court overrides this decision, it will upend how people get abortion and miscarriage care – even in states where abortion is protected. The barriers to care will be greatest for people who live far (sometimes hundreds of miles) from a health center, and for people who live on low incomes, live with disabilities, or who are facing intimate partner violence. Mifepristone is an FDA-approved medication that's been used safely and effectively for abortion and miscarriage care for over 25 years. Yet anti-abortion politicians are obsessed with spreading lies and propaganda to restrict access to this medication in defiance of science, law, and public opinion. With this ruling, anti-abortion politicians are one step closer to their goal of ending all abortion access nationwide – but the fight's not over. This case is now going to the Supreme Court's emergency docket, where the justices will decide whether to overturn this baseless ruling or allow a major rollback in abortion access. However, these attacks won't end until Congress acts to protect our right to abortion once and for all. Tell Congress to protect the right to abortion, including medication abortion, and guarantee meaningful access to abortion for everyone, regardless of who they are or where they live. Take Action Our right to reproductive freedom can't wait. Thanks for fighting with us, J.J. Straight Pronouns: She, her, hers National Campaigns Director for Reproductive Rights, ACLU

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Sign up for ACLU texts  We respect your right to privacy – view our policy. This email was sent by: ACLU 125 Broad St. New York, NY 10004  MY E MAIL TO REP SUBRAMANYAM D-VA 10TH, SEN WARNER D-VA AND SEN KAINE D-VA As your constituent, I ask you to do everything in your power to ensure everyone has meaningful access to abortion care nationwide. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, America has been facing a reproductive health crisis. Abortion is banned or severely restricted in more than a dozen states, with devastating consequences. Not satisfied with that, anti-abortion politicians have launched a multi-front attack on medication abortion – and a federal court just agreed to make it harder for people everywhere in the country to get that care, even as the Trump administration has been laying the groundwork for new nationwide restrictions through a sham FDA review. We cannot fix this crisis without a federal right to abortion. Even under Roe v. Wade, people faced serious barriers to accessing abortion care due to cost, distance, arbitrary gestational limits, and immigration status. And many of those barriers still exist today in states where abortion remains legal. Any federal solution must not only restore the right to abortion nationwide but go beyond Roe and remove these barriers to access. We need a federal law that not only protects our right to abortion care but also ensures people can get the care they need, regardless of income, immigration status, or where they live. Though the Supreme Court has restored access to Mifepristone this is only until 11 May pending a decision by the court. Women must be guaranteed the right to make their own reproductive decisions, this is what the people want. The vast majority in the U.S. – across party lines, gender, age, race, and religion – support the right to abortion and believe politicians shouldn't interfere in our personal medical decisions. They've said so time and again, voting to protect abortion rights in states like Arizona, Missouri, and Ohio. Enough of these immoral, hypocritical pro birth laws the right wing "religious" social engineers propagandize as pro life being forced on the nation! Opposition to abortion is not pro life, it is pro birth. The morality of pro birthers is deeply lacking as they oppose taxes being spent to provide the funding necessary to provide food, shelter, healthcare and education for children they insist in being born. That’s why Congress must act to ensure everyone has access to abortion nationwide. Please commit to restoring a federal right to abortion and ensuring true access for all. Sincerely,

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Access to Abortion Pill by Mail 4MAI26

 EVERY restriction on a woman's right to control their reproductive health decisions should have to include guarantees the child will be provided with middle-class nutrition, housing, healthcare, childcare, preschool, and education. Enough of these immoral, hypocritical pro birth laws the right wing "religious" social engineers propagandize as pro life being forced on the nation! This from the New York Times.....

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Access to Abortion Pill by Mail

A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone.

By Ann E. Marimow

Ann E. Marimow covers the Supreme Court.

May 4, 2026Updated 11:30 a.m. ET

The Supreme Court on Monday restored nationwide access to a widely used abortion medication in a temporary order that will, for now, allow women to once again obtain the pill mifepristone by mail.

In a brief order, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. paused a lower-court ruling from Friday that had prevented abortion providers from prescribing the pills by telemedicine and shipping them to patients, causing confusion for providers and patients. The one-sentence order imposes a pause until at least May 11. He requested that the parties file briefs by Thursday, and then the full court will determine how to proceed.

The state of Louisiana sued the Food and Drug Administration to restrict access to mifepristone, saying the availability of the medication by mail has allowed abortions to continue in the state despite its near-total ban.

Medication is now the method used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the United States, and is typically delivered in the form of a two-drug regimen through the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Friday’s ruling from the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit temporarily reinstated an F.D.A. requirement that patients visit medical providers in person to obtain mifepristone while the litigation continues. That rule was first lifted in 2021.

Two manufacturers of mifepristone, Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro, on Saturday asked the Supreme Court to intervene. In court filings, they said the Fifth Circuit ruling would cause chaos for providers and patients — and upend a major avenue for abortion access across the country. About one-fourth of abortions in the United States are now provided through telemedicine.

Justice Alito’s order, known as an administrative stay, was provisional and expected, but an important interim step for women seeking to obtain mifepristone in the next week. The order does not signal how the full court may eventually handle the case.

Justice Alito acted on his own at this stage because he is the justice assigned to handle emergency applications from the region of the country covered by the Fifth Circuit.

The Trump administration has defended the F.D.A. in court, but has not said whether it supports keeping in place the regulations that make it easier for women to obtain the pills. The F.D.A. is conducting a review of mifepristone, and the administration had asked the lower court to put the litigation on hold until that review is complete.

The case over access to the abortion pill puts the Trump administration in an awkward political position in the lead up to the midterm elections because many of President Trump’s allies and supporters oppose abortion. A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the F.D.A., declined to comment on Saturday, citing the “ongoing litigation.”

After the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion, Republican-led states like Louisiana imposed strict bans. In response, many Democratic-led states passed shield laws that protect abortion providers who prescribe pills by telemedicine and send them to patients in states with abortion bans.

Louisiana and abortion opponents have asserted in court that the F.D.A.’s decision to allow abortion pills to be available by mail posed safety risks to women and increased health care costs for states that had banned abortion.

Major medical organizations and supporters of reproductive rights have pointed to more than 100 studies that have found the pills to be safe and effective, with serious side effects rare.

Ann E. Marimow covers the Supreme Court for The Times from Washington.

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GOP Lawmaker Calls for Probe Into NFL and NBC Over ‘Indecent’ Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show 10FEB26

 MORE "christian" nationalist neo-nazi fascist gop / guardians of  pedophiles & predators-republican party hypocrisy being spewed in response to Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. I am not a fan of Bad Bunny but those attacking him because of his song lyrics (NOTE, he did self-censor some songs) and theatrics really are hypocrites because they seem to have no problems with kiddie rock's song lyrics of 'cool, daddy cool' "Young ladies, young ladies / I like ’em underage, see / Some say that’s statutory / But I say it’s mandatory," and 'bawitdaba' "including a verse that shouts out “topless dancers” and “hookers” in Hollywood." He did perform 'bawitdaba' in turning point usa's alternative halftime show yet not a peep from Rep fascist fotze trunt andi ogle r-TN and fascist fotze trunt Rep randi fine r-FL so we guess they are into topless dancers and hookers. It would be no surprise to find out drumpf's / trump's favorite kiddie rock song is 'cool, daddy cool', since it includes references to daddy, pedophilia and sexual predators. This from Time.....

GOP Lawmaker Calls for Probe Into NFL and NBC Over ‘Indecent’ Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show

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Chad de Guzman

Reporter

Feb 10, 2026 1:45 AM ET

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was divisive before it even started, with many conservatives criticizing the Puerto Rican singer’s political outspokenness, including condemning Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week at the Grammy Awards, where he took home the prize for album of the year.

But while many fans lauded the Latin hitmaker’s 13-minute set on Sunday, despite President Donald Trump calling it “absolutely terrible” and “an affront to the Greatness of America,” one Republican critic is taking his offense to another level.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R, Tenn.) posted on X on Monday evening a letter addressed to the House Energy and Commerce Committee in which he called for an immediate inquiry into the National Football League and broadcaster NBCUniversal over their “prior knowledge, review, and approval” of what he alleged to be “a performance dominated by sexually explicit lyrical themes and suggestive choreography.”

In his post, Ogles called the halftime show “pure smut” and claimed that it featured “explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air” and that the singer’s mostly Spanish-language lyrics “openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.”

The Tennessee lawmaker, whom Trump has previously called a “Conservative Warrior,” argued in his letter to the House committee that songs in Bad Bunny’s set, including “Safaera” and “Yo Perreo Sola,” included references to sexual content that would be “readily apparent across any language barrier.”

While Bad Bunny did perform parts of his song “Safaera,” which includes lines in Spanish such as “My d-ck is being chased and I want you to hide it” and “If your boyfriend doesn’t eat your ass / He better f-ck off,” he refrained from singing the more explicit parts of those lyrics during the halftime show.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R, Tenn.) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2025. Kent Nishimura—Bloomberg/Getty Images

Ogles argued that it was “highly implausible” that the NFL and NBC lacked advance knowledge of the set’s content. He requested that the House committee examine the extent of executives’ and producers’ knowledge of the songs’ nature and accompanying choreography, the internal review and translation processes, and whether safeguards—such as broadcast delay protocols and standards review procedures—were “properly applied” or “intentionally disregarded.”

“These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways,” Ogles declared. “American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence.”

TIME reached out to the NFL and NBC for comment.

In a previous X post, Ogles said that Bad Bunny’s halftime performance was “conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state.”

Another GOP congressman, Rep. Randy Fine (R, Fla.), asserted on X earlier Monday that the halftime show was “illegal,” attaching screenshots of the translated lyrics of “Safaera” (many lines of which Bad Bunny did not actually perform). Fine said he would send Federal Communications Commission chairperson and Trump ally Brendan Carr—who last year pressured ABC to suspend late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel—a letter to call for “dramatic action,” including potentially fines and broadcast license reviews, against the NFL, NBC, and Bad Bunny.

Anticipating the controversy over Bad Bunny’s performance, conservative activist group Turning Point USA staged counterprogramming advertised as a celebration of “faith, family, and freedom” to cater to the MAGA crowd. The group’s “All-American Halftime Show” was headlined by Trump-supporting musician Kid Rock—known for songs such as “Cool, Daddy Cool,” which features the lines “Young ladies, young ladies / I like ’em underage, see / Some say that’s statutory / But I say it’s mandatory,” which he didn’t perform during the Turning Point USA halftime show, as well as “Bawitdaba,” which he did perform, including a verse that shouts out “topless dancers” and “hookers” in Hollywood.