OPINION: Labrador tilts absurdly against the mifepristone windmill
Once Idaho's attorney general embarks on an ill-fated crusade, he won’t stop until it reaches the stage of absurdity. That describes his quest to ban mifepristone, a drug proven safe as a means for early termination of a pregnancy. Labrador has launched two unsuccessful, out-of-state legal actions to ban or restrict use of the medication. Now, he makes the bizarre claim that it is contaminating our water.
Labrador first tried to horn in on the appeal of a Texas judge’s ruling that placed substantial restrictions on mifepristone, including a ban on prescribing it by telemedicine and dispensing it by mail. When that 2023 ruling was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS), Labrador teamed up with the attorneys general of Missouri and Kansas. The three filed a motion in January 2024 to join the appeal. The three states had not participated in the trial and were likely just grandstanding for attention.
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