As I listened to oral arguments in a case before the Supreme Court concerning Mifepristone, one of two drugs often used in combination, and commonly prescribed by doctors to facilitate abortion, I felt a mix of emotions:

Anger at the thought that denialist doctors and dentists had wormed their way onto the high court’s docket to pitch a case that could force all doctors to abandon evidence-based, and in some cases emergency, medical care to human beings they deemed to be unworthy of the standard of care all doctors take an oath to uphold.

Disbelief about what I was hearing from the counsel for the plaintiffs, who was trying to underscore the harm her clients could endure from merely the thought that they might one day, though some extreme circumstance wherein an anti-choice dentist might be the only medical professional available to treat sepsis in a pregnant woman, have to decide........

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