Questions about abortion pill's future as Supreme Court hearing looms

The last time abortion went before the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade, which was considered precedent, was overturned.

Mifepristone is on the line and a Supreme Court hearing is now on the horizon. Questions over the future of the drug that's been approved over 20 years are causing confusion for many. 

Sabrina Talukder is the director of the Women's Health Initiative at the Center for American Progress, a program that helps develop political efforts for women's access to reproductive health.

"Because the Dobbs decision has upset legal precedent to such a degree, we are now living in a world of mass confusion and chaos where there are a lot of gray areas and we don't know what to do, whether it's medical providers, pharmacists, patients, lawyers," said Talukder.

While many abortion-rights groups are in favor of the fact that the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments to reverse an appellate court ruling to cut access to mifepristone, the fact that it's gotten to the nation's highest court is something she believes should never have happened.

"It is a critical case, not just in determining the next chapter of abortion access in the United States, but also what this case signals in terms of the politicization of the judiciary of medicine. This case — like my other really important take, in addition to this being a case about abortion access, is that it is actually so much more," said Talukder.