President Trump’s Justice Department has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit over abortion pills. The suit comes from three Republican-led states that are seeking to cut off tele-health access to the mifepristone abortion pill. The attorney generals of Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho argue that allowing women access to the abortion drug via tele-health undermines their states’ abortion bans. The DOJ’s filing does not make mention of the merits of the case. Rather, it merely says that it lacks the legal standard to be heard in the court in which it was filed. Critics say this move signals Trump’s evolution on the issue of abortion since his first term. In the end, abortion policy is now a state issue and whoever’s in the presidency should respect this.
