MFA:

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, it promised to "return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives." In virtually every instance in which it's been returned to the people, which has mostly happened by ballot initiative and referendum, the people have acted to protect reproductive rights. Perhaps that explains why less than a year after the fall of Roe, conservative activists are trying to put the issue of abortion access into the hands of a single man for whom no one ever voted: a federal judge in Texas named Matthew Kacsmaryk. In the coming weeks, there is a very real possibility that Kacsmaryk will single-handedly outlaw medication abortion in all 50 states, massively disrupting access to reproductive health care across the entire country. Worse, there is a substantial likelihood that higher courts"including the Supreme Court"will let him get away with it.

Important details the article points out:

"A majority of American patients now terminate their pregnancies with pills rather than by undergoing a procedure at a clinic. This makes good sense, as medication abortions are 18 times safer than childbirth, very reliable, and easy to access."

The case is being brought by anti-abortion activists who are "represented by the far-right Alliance Defending Freedom; Erin Morrow Hawley, wife of GOP Sen. Josh Hawley, is a lead attorney."

The anti-abortion activists went judge shopping: "The suit was filed in the remote Amarillo division of the Northern District of Texas. . . . The plaintiffs only filed there because they were guaranteed to draw a single judge: Kacsmaryk, whom Donald Trump placed on the bench in 2019. Before donning his robe, Kacsmaryk served as deputy general counsel at the far-right First Liberty Institute[.] . . . Since his confirmation, he has gained a reputation as perhaps the most lawless jurist in the country."

Welcome to the current iteration of American "democracy".

The Founding Fathers didn't mention mifepristone. Therefore, the right to use it isn't guaranteed and is, in fact, unconstitutional. Why? Because we said so.

It was never about late term abortions and the so-called live birth abortions. It was always eliminating all abortions. IOW, it's always been about instituting into law the conservative Christian belief that human life begins at conception and all abortions are a sin, i.e. murder, and must be eliminated. Then there is the even more extreme and radical religious belief that using birth control is an attempt to circumvent God's will and also a big moral no-no. Eliminating the use of abortion pills isn't even the end goal for these religious zealots, who want to eliminate the use of birth control pills as well.