The View’s Sunny Hostin Declares Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling ‘Restores a Little Bit of My Faith in the Court’
The View co-host Sunny Hostin declared a “little bit” of her “faith” in the Supreme Court was restored on Thursday after they reversed a federal court’s decision to limit access to an abortion pill.
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone. A lower court had ruled that the pill could not be sent through the mail, even to states that have not enacted abortion restrictions following Roe v. Wade being overturned.
“It’s nice to hear good news about the Supreme Court for a change,” Joy Behar said when reporting on the story on Thursday.
Hostin predicted states were still going to try and limit reproductive rights for women.
“I think the states are still going to try and take them away. There are about 14 states where even this pill is not allowed to be used for abortion purposes, so we’re still kind of in the same situation when it comes to states rights to decide a woman’s reproductive health rights,” she said.
Hostin added that the decision does restore some of her faith in the court as even judges she’s highly critical of like Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas followed the “black letter law.”
“It does restore a little bit of my faith in the court because the legal standard is, do you have standing to bring a case? Can anybody bring a case in front of the Supreme Court? No,” she said. “You have to prove that you have injuries resulting from it and so you’ve got a group of doctors and a group of citizens and all of these people bring this challenge to the FDA and say, we don’t want this pill.”
The celebratory attitude did not last long as Ana Navarro noted the court ruled on the standing of the case, rather than the merits.
Hostin noted at one point that the 25-page decision does not dismiss the merits of a ban on the abortion pill and contains “a little bit of a dog whistle” to Congress and governors that they would need to legislate such an effort as it notes “other avenues to object” to the decision.
“If these had been plaintiffs that had standing and the issue had been in front of the Supreme Court, God only knows,” she said.
“I don’t trust the whole thing,” Behar added.
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