Dr. Angel Foster, the co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (MAP), has spent every waking moment since Friday evening answering questions from panicked and confused patients.
“Why does a ruling from a circuit court affect me?”
“My package hasn’t arrived yet — am I still going to be able to take my medication?”
“Am I still going to be able to get an abortion?”
On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision temporarily banning the mailing of the abortion medication mifepristone and requiring that the abortion pill be distributed only in person and at clinics. Although the Supreme Court issued a stay on the ruling Monday morning, restoring access for at least another week, the case is the most sweeping threat to abortion since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
