Banning the Abortion Pill Just Isn’t Enough
The article discusses the ongoing legal battle surrounding mifepristone, the abortion pill, and its implications for abortion access in the U.S. It highlights the historical context of eugenics related to the Population Council, which holds the rights to the drug. The Supreme Court's decision on the case could significantly impact the availability of medication abortions across state lines.
- ▪Mifepristone is at the center of a legal case before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding its prescription via telehealth.
- ▪The Population Council, founded with eugenics interests, owns the U.S. rights to mifepristone.
- ▪Nearly 10 percent of abortion medications are obtained through illegal channels, indicating a readiness to bypass regulations.
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Frederick Osborne was a tall man. Coming in at six feet and eight inches, the joke in the Army is that he was its tallest general — not that the average Army man ever ran across him anyway. His job was to make sure soldiers got continuing education and training, but it was a job he held at the height of World War II when most of those soldiers were busy taking back monasteries from the Fascists in Italy. Osborne wasn’t the kind of man you’d think of when you think of Army generals in World War II. He’d spent a lot more time in a classroom musing over bizarre theories than he had with his boots on the ground and a gun on his shoulder. Osborne, you see, was a eugenicist.His legacy as the Director of Information Education of the Army wasn’t all that notable.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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