For medication abortions, sorting out federal preemption will require fresh lawsuits, which are likely to be brought in states already hostile to abortion, and—depending on their outcome—might rise to a Supreme Court that has already negated abortion rights. Legal experts worry that this could lead to findings with wider implications for federalism as a whole. “In over 230 years of Supreme Court jurisprudence, and the practice of law and rule of law, it has always been that federal laws and regulations govern the laws of our nation,” says Michele Bratcher Goodwin, a law professor and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University
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