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...other countries—including the United Kingdom, Canada, and India—have deemed this drug safe for over-the-counter sales. There is also an important distinction to be made: Plan B is not abortion; the FDA itself designated Plan B as contraception. According to Planned Parenthood, “Experts estimate that wider access to emergency contraception could prevent up to 1.7 million unintended pregnancies a year—and 800,000 abortions.” In other words, if Plan C(ontraceptive) fails, and women cannot access Plan B, many will be forced into Plan...
...protections and reshape the scope of the U.S. government. Several of Alito’s past opinions lead us to this conclusion.The most incendiary—although not most extreme—example of Alito’s radicalism is his dissent in the 1991 abortion rights case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. He supported a law that mandated that wives receive their husbands’ permission to seek abortions. This law would have subjected battered women to further abuse from their spouses, and the Supreme Court rightly rejected it as an “undue burden?...
...left-wing Cassandras—who have rushed to condemn Alito as a fire-breathing Roe-overturning conservative—he has a decidedly nuanced record. In his four abortion-related cases, he has ruled in favor of abortion rights three times. Even in the exception, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Alito merely ruled that spousal notification was not an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to an abortion, given that the law provided exemptions for unusual cases such as domestic abuse...
Michael Stein, a visiting professor of law at Harvard and self-described "left-winger" was a clerk for Samuel Alito in 1991 when the appeals court judge was considering Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. That case, involving Pennsylvania laws that placed obstacles in the way of women seeking an abortion, would eventually be addressed in a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision that essentially upheld Roe v. Wade. Though the Court agreed with Alito and the other two judges from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, there was one key difference. Alito argued for upholding a law requiring...
INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION 212-248-6400 www.ippfwhr.org Not a favorite of the U.S. government or the right-to-life movement, the Federation provides contraceptive services and pre- and postnatal health care for women, and advocates for their sexual, reproductive and abortion rights...