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Romain Pilliard's USE IT AGAIN Trimaran: a symbol of the circular economy

Romain Pilliard is a professional, committed and activist sailor. Sailor for more than 20 years, he decided in 2016 to refit Ellen MacArthur's old trimaran with which she broke the solo round the world record in 2005. His project: to recondition and optimise this Ultim class trimaran according to the principles of circular economy (Reduce, ReUse, Recycle) and to ensure that it can once again sail at the highest level.

Second Blow for Le Trimaran USE IT AGAIN

When Romain recovers the racing trimaran of more than 23 meters long, it is out of use, abandoned for more than 6 years in Brest . 2 years of work will then be necessary for USE IT AGAIN to be reborn. It is thus in 2018 that she will be back on the water, ready to sail .

Romain Pilliard wishes through the trimaran USE IT AGAIN to influence, sensitize and emphasize the preservation of our environment and the safeguard of our beautiful planet by applying the principle of the "3Rs":

REDUCE: REDUCE the amount of waste we produce

By rearming this trimaran from 2003, he avoids first of all the production of a new boat and therefore the creation of new materials such as carbon or exotic fibres (hardly recyclable). It reduces the use of new resources and avoids consuming new ones.

The trimaran is also intended to be "non-technological", bringing together the least amount of on-board technology compared to most racing boats. It is equipped with basic technology ( autopilot , radar, satellite phone , PC), the aim always being to have the bare necessities. It is also equipped with solar panels , a wind turbine and a hydrogenerator to produce the energy needed to power the electrical appliances essential for single-handed sailing.

SUCCESSFUL: REUSE as much of the equipment as we can before replacing it with new equipment

Romain Pilliard will use as much second-hand equipment and materials as possible or materials from overproduction at the suppliers that correspond to the needs of the boat: ropes, sails, solar panels , wind generator, navigation system, winch, engine parts... We reuse as much as possible what already exists.

USE IT AGAIN's gennaker was also redesigned in the Code Zero that Francis Joyon used on his boat Eure et Loir in 2000. This is also the case for the genoa and staysail (J1 and J2). These sails come from another team which no longer had the use for them, they were adapted to the trimaran (luff length, addition of zip to be furled on the fixed forestay), then repaired to reach the end of their second life.

When there is breakage on the boat , every effort is made to repair the part before replacing it. This is not a question of aesthetic and absolute performance, but of reasoned consumption and relative performance.

RECYCLE: RECYCLE the material as much as possible

When the equipment breaks and is no longer in working order, Romain Pillard will do everything possible to encourage recycling . The aim is to develop recycling techniques for parts that are not normally recycled. In particular, he is working with a company in the Netherlands that reuses the forestay (a textile cable that holds the boat's mast made of PBO fibres), transforming it into gloves that are resistant to very high temperatures. He also builds new parts for the boat in 3D printing from recycled yarn. The aim is to reuse the existing material as many times as possible!

A sports program to raise awareness of the circular economy .

In this sporting environment where performance and technical innovation of the boats are paramount, Romain Pilliard is going against the tide and wishes to demonstrate the performance of his trimaran , reconditioned according to the principles of circular economy .

In 2018, he took part in the Route du Rhum where he finished 4th in the Ultim category. Whilst the sailing conditions were very hectic during this edition of the Route du Rhum (1/3 abandonment) the trimaran USE IT AGAIN suffered little breakage, no capsize and recorded peak speeds of up to 39 knots. Romain Pilliard managed to lead his boat to the end of the race. He thus proves that it is possible to practice this sport, to go for performance, to enjoy sailing while being respectful of the environment and of one's playground.

Romain Pilliard is planning other great adventures. USE IT AGAIN will take part in one big transatlantic race a year and also in crewed races in Europe. It will take part in the Transat Jacques Vabre in October 2021, the Route du Rhum in November 2022 and races such as the Tour de Belle-Île (of which Romain is the founder), the Rolex Fastnet Race and the Tour of the Isle of Wight. The aim is always to raise awareness and influence as many people as possible through these events on the importance of moving towards a certain sobriety in order to protect our Blue Planet.

You can follow the adventures of the trimaran USE IT AGAIN on social networks. You can also take part in this project for the development and promotion of the circular economy by supporting the USE IT AGAIN endowment fund by going to useitagain.earth in the Join us section.

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Westabout round the world record attempts on rocks off Cape Horn

• Helen Fretter
• February 9, 2022

Romain Pilliard's Use it Again! trimaran runs aground while storm-bound in Patagonia during a westabout round the world record attempt

The 75ft trimaran Use it Again! hard aground on the rocks

Two skippers attempting an around the world record attempt against the prevailing winds and currents have run aground in the Patagonian channels, having taken shelter from a storm after rounding Cape Horn.

Romain Pilliard and Alex Pella are attempting to break the ‘world’s toughest sailing record’, a non-stop circumnavigation from east to west, in the trimaran Use It Again!.  The 75ft Nigel Irens design was originally Ellen MacArthur’s B&Q .

The team’s social media channels reported that at 0500 GMT (0100am local) this morning, the trimaran ran aground in Cook Bay. The report continues: ‘The skippers are not injured, they have put on their survival suits and are safe. The trimaran is immobilised on the rocks but [is not floating] at the moment.”

Later this morning Pilliard gave his update on the incident: “It was 1 am local time when a loud noise woke me up. The boat came to a stop. I immediately understood…

“We [had been taking] turns at the helm, securing our respective quarters, sailing in Cook’s Bay overnight to be in place on February 9 for a new depression and ready for a possible window exit on the 10th towards the Pacific. The weather conditions were still good, we were under reduced sail, we were progressing at 6 knots in Cook’s Bay.

“Alex was on watch, and it was my turn to rest. After more than a month at sea, fatigue has accumulated and Alex has settled inside and fell asleep. This is an actual nightmare! I don’t really have the words. I am devastated.

“I am trying to focus on the urgency of the moment. But I can’t believe what happened to us. At this moment. In these conditions.

“The trimaran is literally resting on the rocks, we are stuck in a mouse hole with rocks all around us. It’s surreal to be here. To live this. After what we’ve been through the past few days.

“We’ve prepared the boat to get out of here, sent a video to the Chilean Navy so that they can get us out of there in the best conditions and as quickly as possible before the arrival of the depression and without damaging the boat too much. The area is not mapped, so the exit will be complicated. We are not injured, we are going to get the boat out of there, get it to safety, the rest we will see.”

Cape Horn closed

The pair have endured a series of challenges while attempting to round Cape Horn. By 30 January, 25 days after setting off, they had reached Tierra del Fuego. However, with winds consistently above 40 knots, gusting up to 53, they took shelter in the lee of Isla de los Estados in the Lemaire Strait rather than attempt a rounding.

Use it Again! Taking shelter in Tierra del Fuego

Skipper Romain Pilliard reported from onboard: “We have 40 knots, we’re sailing under three reefs in the mainsail and no headsails.

“This is the south. I’m in my 50s, I think I’m going through something crazy. We are finally going to shelter after Lemaire Strait. It is 0 degrees. I put all the thick clothes I can and still feel like I’m skiing without gloves on a crappy weather day.”

The duo made some slow progress for two days, sailing under 10 knots under bare poles while tucked close to the coast, but then had to wait for a second storm to pass. There were also concerns about the risks of sailing upwind into the severe sea state that was expected after the front’s passage.

After 36 hours of waiting, they finally passed Cape Horn on 3 February in extreme conditions, with 30-40 knot headwinds, rough seas, and freezing temperatures.

Alex Pella and Romain Pilliard round Cape Horn on Use it Again! February 2022 Photo: Use it Again!

Record paused

However, even after rounding the Cape, there was no let-up in conditions for Use It Again! . The team’s weather router, Christian Dumard, forecast a Force 7-8 storm in the South Pacific and the team opted to shelter in Cook Bay, at the entrance to the Beagle Channel in western Chile on February 4.

The double-handed team have been manoeuvring constantly whilst taking shelter in Patagonian channels Photos: Use it Again!

Unable to anchor or motor, the pair have been manoeuvring the 75ft trimaran under sail constantly in poorly charted Patagonian channels with highly changeable wind conditions that have varied from flat calm to sudden gusts rising from 10 to 50 knots. The trimaran has also suffered a broken batten and batten car in the process.

The 34,000-mile ‘wrong way’ non-stop round the world course against prevailing winds and currents is one of the toughest challenges in sailing. It has been set as a solo record only five times since 1971, with the current time to beat standing since Jean-Luc Van Den Heede completed it in 122 days in 2000.

Spanish co-skipper Alex Pella (left) with project creator and skipper Romain Pilliard (right) on the refitted trimaran Use it Again!

French sailor Romain Pilliard, a Figaro racer and IMOCA crew, teamed up with Spanish co-skipper Alex Pella, who set the Jules Verne record with Francis Joyon in 2017 and has raced on IMOCAs, Ultims and Multi 50s. Their objective is not only to set a new record, but to do so on as sustainable a platform as possible, having refit the 2005-designed trimaran and used many recycled components.

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Le trimaran recyclé du navigateur Romain Pilliard

" Ce trimaran, c’est un reflet de l'économie circulaire. " Ce bateau a permis à Ellen MacArthur de remporter le tour du monde en solitaire. Abandonné depuis plusieurs années, Romain Pilliard lui a donné une seconde vie. Voilà pourquoi.

Le navigateur Romain Pilliard donne une seconde vie à son trimaran

Le trimaran « Use it again » est reconditionné. Brut a pu monter à bord.

Le navigateur français Romain Pilliard a plus d’un tour dans son sac. Quand il n’était pas sur l’eau, il a retapé à un trimaran mythique : un bateau construit par Ellen MacArthur en 2003 avec lequel elle a battu du tour du monde en solitaire en 2005. Ce trimaran s’appelle « Use it again ». « Il est reconditionné. Ça veut dire qu'il était abandonné, et que j'ai décidé de lui donner une seconde vie en utilisant un maximum de matériel et de matériaux existants », raconte Romain Pilliard.

« Il est resté à l'état d'épave »

Ce trimaran de 23 mètres n'est pas un bateau comme les autres. Après avoir vogué avec la championne Ellen MacArthur , il a navigué quelques années, puis abandonné pendant plus de 6 ans à Brest. « Il est resté à l'état d'épave. On a monté tout ce projet Use it again pour qu'il renavigue. C'est à partir de 2018 qu'il a retrouvé l'eau », explique Romain Pilliard.

Sur la partie avant du bateau, des voiles réutilisées. « Elles étaient au sein d'un team professionnel qui n'en avait plus l'utilité. C'est l'objectif du projet, c'est d'aller chercher du matériel qui est en stock quelque part, et éviter qu'il soit jeter. » De nombreux autres éléments sont issus de la récup’ : toutes les ficelles, les winchs, les pièces détachées du moteur…

« On construit des bateaux très performants, mais ils ne sont utilisés que quelques années »

« En fait, un trimaran comme celui-ci, s'il est bien entretenu, peut vraiment durer très longtemps. C'est ça qui est paradoxal : on construit des bateaux de courses très performants dans des matériaux composites, de carbone, faits pour durer. Mais finalement, ils ne sont utilisés que quelques années », déplore le navigateur.

Pour faire fonctionner le pilote automatique, l'électronique du bord, le GPS, le radar et l'ordinateur, Romain Pilliard utilise l’énergie éolienne. « Dans les zones de tout petit vent, j’ai des panneaux solaires reconditionnés. Enfin, l'hydrogénérateur, est un peu un mix : il fonctionne assez bien, même par faible vitesse. C'est une petite hélice qui tourne dans l'eau comme une hydrolienne pour me fabriquer mon énergie », détaille le navigateur.

En 2018, Use it again a fait la Route du rhum

En 2018, lors de la Route du rhum, Romain Pilliard a réussi à traverser l'Atlantique en solitaire. « Ça a été un moment personnel absolument exceptionnel. Vous vous rendez compte, être sur un trimaran au milieu de l'Atlantique, un trimaran de 23 mètres, tout seul ! Et ça a été surtout l'événement lancement de la renaissance de ce bateau. On a validé tout ce qu’on avait mis en œuvre pour donner une deuxième vie à ce bateau », se souvient-il, ému.

Pour lui, le trimaran Use it again est un reflet de l'économie circulaire. « L’économie circulaire, c'est d'abord réduire notre consommation, réduire notre l'utilisation des ressources, ne pas consommer neuf. Puis réemployer, trouver l'existant à qui il faut donner une deuxième, troisième, quatrième vie peut-être. Et puis après, au bout de la chaîne, il y a le recyclage et le recyclage. »

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Romain Pilliard et Christophe Colaris sont arrivés mardi à Papeete, à bord du trimaran Use It Again! by Extia . Ce bateau, construit en 2005 pour Ellen MacArthur, puis abandonné, a été racheté par Romain Pilliard et sa femme, Aurélie, pour promouvoir une voie plus écologique .

  L’histoire a commencé en 2003 pour ce bateau, mais ce n’est que 13 années plus tard qu’il croise la route de Romain et Aurélie Pilliard. Construit pour la navigatrice Ellen MacArthur, qui battra le record du Tour du monde en 2005 avec lui, ce magnifique trimaran a ensuite été laissé à l’abandon sur un quai de Brest. Quand ils entendent parler de lui, le couple Pilliard monte un projet : rénover le trimaran, le retaper et assurer sa maintenance par l’économie circulaire , en utilisant un maximum de matériaux de récupération, et partir sur les mers pour promouvoir l’écologie. D’où son nouveau nom : Use It Again! by Extia, Extia étant une société de conseil informatique qui sponsorise le projet . « On ne pouvait pas le laisser comme ça. Ce trimaran était un super bateau, il était réputé pour être fiable et costaud. Il fait partie des plus gros bateaux de course du monde », explique Aurélie. Ce que confirme Romain qui souhaitait montrer qu’on peut « utiliser de l’existant pour des projets de haut niveau » .

Romain Pilliard reste trois semaines sur Papeete pour aller à la rencontre des associations de protection de l’environnement et des animaux puis repartira tout seul pour Cape Town et enfin remontera vers Lorient pour y arriver à la mi-juillet.

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C'est un bateau exceptionnel qui a fait son entrée ce matin dans la baie de Matavai , le trimaran Use it Again! L'ancien voilier de 23 mètres appartenait à la navigatrice Ellen Mac Arthur. Son nouveau propriétaire a décidé de le reconditionner entièrement et de battre le record du tour du monde à l'envers. Après une avarie à Ushuaia, il doit renoncer au record mais continue son voyage.

Un véritable défi à la fois sur le plan sportif et écologique . " On a eu un petit accident dans le grand Sud dans les canaux de Patagonie, vers Ushuaïa. Le record était de faire Lorient-Lorient sans s'arrêter, et on a décidé de poursuivre ce tour du monde d'est en ouest, ce qui est exceptionnel...et au-delà du record sportif, il faut aller au bout de l'aventure ", reconnaît Romain Pilliard , navigateur professionnel.

Il compte rester 3 semaines à Tahiti , le temps de bricoler sur son bateau.

Romain Pilliard et Christophe Colaris, commandant du Lyrial du Ponant, sont arrivés à Tahiti avec leur trimaran, Use It Again! by Extia . Ce bateau, construit en 2005 pour Ellen MacArthur, puis abandonné, a été rénové pour une seconde vie. L’objectif : vivre des aventures exceptionnelles tout en minimisant notre impact sur la planète .

L’ancien trimaran d’Ellen MacArthur, record du Tour du monde en solitaire en 2005, abandonné sur un quai de Brest entre 2011 et 2016, remis en état en 2017, arrivé 4e de la Route du Rhum dans la catégorie Ultimes en 2018 et aujourd’hui engagé dans un tour du monde à l’envers, est à Tahiti. Romain Pilliard et Christophe Colaris ont posté des photos de leur arrivée, expliquant qu’ils ont été accompagnés par le club de voile et de pirogues de Arue, jusqu’à la marina Taina de Punaauia.

Ce trimaran, baptisé Use It Again! by Extia , est particulier car il a été rénové selon les principes de l’économie circulaire . « Son équipement et celui du marin ont été choisi parmi du matériel de préférence reconditionné ou recyclé en tenant compte des contraintes techniques et de sécurité. » C’est un mix énergétique éolienne, hydrogénérateur et panneaux solaires qui assure le fonctionnement des instruments de navigation. Un matériel, lui aussi, issu de pièces reconditionnées par les fournisseurs.

Le projet Use It Again! , c’est le défi du navigateur Romain Pilliard . Le bateau est parti de Lorient en France le 4 janvier, pour tenter de battre le record du tour du monde à l’envers, sans escale. Mais une casse au large du Cap Horn a mis fin au défi sportif. L’aventure se poursuit cependant pour boucler ce tour du monde et mettre en avant les principes de l’économie circulaire .

Après une casse au large du Cap Horn, l’aventure se poursuit sans record, toujours en cherchant des vents portants pour boucler la traversée du Pacifique. Tahiti marque la fin de la deuxième étape du tour. L’équipage de Use It Again! pose les pieds sur terre pour trois semaines. Les grands bateaux de courses sont plutôt rares dans les eaux polynésiennes . Tahiti se positionne pour devenir une escale des grandes courses au large.

Dans son voyage au tour du monde, Use It Again! se penche aussi sur la pollution sonore . L’équipage compte réaliser la première cartographie sonore des océans .

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People across the country in the path of the total solar eclipse on April 8 are scrambling to pick up viewing glasses, but few have considered what they'll do with their glasses after the 4-and-a-half-minute phenomenon is over.

Before trashing a pair of hard-won glasses , only to scrounge for a new pair ahead of the next eclipse , consider this expert's advice about keeping or reusing eclipse glasses.

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Astronomers Without Borders has launched its second eclipse glasses recycling program ahead of April's eclipse.

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FILE - Erin Hawley, with Alliance Defending Freedom, exits the federal courthouse on March 15, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas. The Supreme Court will again wade into the fractious issue of abortion when it hears arguments Tuesday, March 26, 2024, over mifepristone, a medication used in the most common way to end a pregnancy. Hawley, who is married to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is representing the abortion opponents at the Supreme Court. Both Hawleys served as law clerks to Chief Justice John Roberts early in their careers. (AP Photo/David Erickson, File)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will again wade into the fractious issue of abortion this week when it hears arguments over a medication used in the most common way to end a pregnancy , a case with profound implications for millions of women no matter where they live in America and, perhaps, for the race for the White House.

Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and cleared the way for bans or severe restrictions on abortion in many Republican-led states, abortion opponents on Tuesday will ask the high court to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to the medication mifepristone, which was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States last year.

That decision to reverse Roe had immediate political consequences, with Democrats making the case that the court had taken away a right that women held for half a century and winning elections as a result. Even conservative-leaning states like Kansas and Ohio voted against abortion restrictions. If the court were to uphold restrictions on medication abortions it could roil the election landscape in races for Congress and the presidency.

By rolling back Food and Drug Administration changes to the use of mifepristone, the ruling would cut off access to the drug through the mail and impose other restrictions, even in states where abortion remains legal. The restrictions would shorten the time when mifepristone can be used in pregnancy, to seven weeks from 10 currently.

Most adults in the U.S., 55%, believe medication abortion pills are very or somewhat safe when taken as directed by a doctor, according to a KFF poll from May 2023, and 65% have “a lot” or “some” confidence in the FDA to ensure that medications sold in the U.S. are safe and effective.

A decision should come by late June. But no matter the outcome, the Supreme Court has not seen its last abortion case. Legal battles are pending over state restrictions, and new federal limits are likely if former President Donald Trump, Republicans’ presumptive nominee for 2024, returns to the White House.

Next month, the justices will hear arguments over whether a federal law on emergency treatment at hospitals must include abortions, even in states that have otherwise banned them.

AP AUDIO: Supreme Court again confronts the issue of abortion, this time over access to widely used medication.

AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports on a Supreme Court hearing Tuesday surrounding access to an abortion pill.

Mifepristone, made by New York-based Danco Laboratories, is one of two drugs, along with misoprostol, used in medication abortions. Their numbers have been rising for years, and they accounted for 63% of the more than 1 million abortions in the U.S. last year, according to an estimate by the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. More than 5 million people have used mifepristone since 2000.

Mifepristone is taken first to dilate the cervix and block the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy. Misoprostol is taken 24 to 48 hours later, causing the uterus to contract and expel pregnancy tissue.

Health care providers have said that if mifepristone is no longer available or is too hard to obtain, they would switch to using only misoprostol, which is somewhat less effective in ending pregnancies.

Underscoring the importance of the case, the number of medication abortions is rising for several reasons. Taking pills at home to end a pregnancy is less invasive than surgery, more convenient than having to travel to an abortion clinic and more private, allowing women to avoid anti-abortion protesters who picket clinics.

It’s becoming even easier to get the two drugs in some states now that CVS and Walgreens have announced pilot programs to dispense the pills at their pharmacies.

For women living in states with abortion bans or restrictions, mail order delivery may be their only practical option, said Julie F. Kay, executive director of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine.

The medication is sent by providers in states that have laws meant to shield them from any legal trouble for working with people who live in states that don’t permit medication abortions. The pills cost $150 and usually arrive within three to five days, Kay said.

Last year, 85,000 women worked with order-by-mail abortion provider Aid Access to obtain the medication, said Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, the group’s founder. Of those, 50,000 live in states with abortion restrictions, she said.

The current case followed closely the Supreme Court decision in June 2022 that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. That ruling has led to bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy in 14 states, with some exceptions, and once cardiac activity can be detected, which is around six weeks, in two others.

Abortion opponents filed their challenge to mifepristone the following November and initially won a sweeping ruling six months later from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk , a Trump nominee in Texas, which would have revoked the drug’s approval entirely. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals left intact the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone. But it would reverse changes regulators made in 2016 and 2021 that eased some conditions for administering the drug.

The Supreme Court put the appeals court’s modified ruling on hold, then agreed to hear the case, though Justices Samuel Alito, the author of the decision overturning Roe, and Clarence Thomas would have allowed some restrictions to take effect while the case proceeded.

The doctors and groups that initially wanted mifepristone pulled from the market now say, in their main Supreme Court brief, that those recent changes “jeopardize women’s health throughout the nation” and didn’t follow the rigorous procedures required by federal law to alter safety restrictions on drugs.

“The Supreme Court’s got a chance to decide whether some agencies get a pass in decision making,” said Sarah Parshall Perry, a lawyer at the Heritage Foundation who supports the challenge.

Pregnant women who wish to take mifepristone, for example, no longer need an in-person visit with a doctor before getting a prescription, said Erin Hawley, the Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer who is representing the abortion opponents at the Supreme Court.

“Our clients are asking the FDA to put back in place safeguards that were there for nearly 20 years,” Hawley told The Associated Press. She is married to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. Both Hawleys served as law clerks to Chief Justice John Roberts early in their careers.

But the administration said the elimination of doctor visits and the other changes were the product of more than 20 years of experience in regulating mifepristone, including evaluating safety data and studies of thousands of women. Its view is shared by several leading medical organizations, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Seven former FDA commissioners said in a court filing that the agency exercised special care in its initial approval of mifepristone because it was dealing with an abortion drug. Subsequent changes were “driven by a straightforward and thorough application of the expert scientific review process that Congress entrusted to FDA,” they wrote.

Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California at Davis who has written extensively about abortion, said rolling back the FDA rules “would render pretty much all the doses of mifepristone on the market potentially misbranded and mislabeled, which could mean, I think, you know, months of disruption in terms of the drug being available.”

More broadly, Ziegler said, the “case has the potential, obviously, to upend how drug approvals function.” The prescription drug industry also has weighed in forcefully on the administration’s side.

The administration and Danco both make extensive arguments, contested by the other side, that the abortion opponents lack the legal right, or standing, to bring the case.

If the court agrees they’re right, it would preserve access for mifepristone without touching on the more politically sensitive issues in the dispute.

Associated Press writer Linley Sanders contributed to this report.

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T o the dismay of Republicans, and the advantage of Democrats, abortion rights remain a high-priority issue for voters nearly two years after the Supreme Court ended a half-century of constitutional protection nationwide. That should come as no surprise.

The topic has rarely been out of the news since the Dobbs decision , what with all the coverage of red states’ bans , voters’ backlash and horror stories of women denied healthcare or forced into unnecessary procedures, costs and travel to get the care they want or need. An Arizona state senator made national headlines in recent days after describing the invasive sonogram and erroneous lecture on abortion alternatives that she had to endure before she could end a pregnancy that wasn’t viable — actions prescribed by state law, not her doctor.

The drumbeat of real-life testimonials and political controversies won’t let up between now and November. It could well get louder: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in the most significant abortion case since Dobbs, weighing whether to restrict mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions, now the way most pregnancies are terminated.

The court takes up the case just days after the pro-reproductive rights Guttmacher Institute reported that the number of abortions in the United States was more than 1 million in 2023, the first full year since the justices overturned Roe vs. Wade — despite that ruling and the resulting state bans and strict limits in nearly half the states. That figure represents a 10% increase over 2020, the last year for which data are available. Medication abortions accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total, 63%, up from 53% in 2020.

In other words, the antiabortion Supreme Court will now decide whether to restrict what has become the most common procedure in states where abortion remains legal, and what’s virtually the only method available — through the mail — in states with abortion bans.

To antiabortion groups, this pill delivery amounts to a “national mail-order abortion scheme” that subverts their long-sought court victory, and they set out to stop it almost as soon as Dobbs was decided. Thus the case against mifepristone that’s now made its way from a like-minded federal judge in Texas, Donald Trump appointee Matthew Kacsmaryk , to the Supreme Court.

At least the justices narrowed the scope of what they’ll decide: There’s no chance of an outcome as noxiously sweeping as Kacsmaryk’s ruling , which would have removed mifepristone from the market entirely. Even for the very conservative Supreme Court, as well as for the right-wing 5th Circuit Court of Appeals before it, Kacsmaryk went too far.

In reaching his decision, the district judge, formerly a lawyer for a Christian conservative legal group, substituted his scientific expertise — none — for that of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Way back in 2000, the FDA determined that mifepristone was safe as part of a two-drug regimen with another medication, misoprostol, to abort pregnancies up to seven weeks. By 2021, with more safety data in hand, the FDA had liberalized the drugs’ use so that patients up to 10 weeks pregnant could get the pills by prescription from pharmacies or by mail, without a doctor dispensing them in person.

Kacsmaryk ruled — in a decision replete with antiabortion jargon about “unborn humans” and citations of scientific studies since retracted — that the FDA should never have approved the drug in the first place. (The Texan is prime evidence for my argument that voters this year must pick a president as if the federal courts are on the ballot too, to make sure Trump never again has power to pack them.) The 5th Circuit disagreed, but it upheld Kacsmaryk's finding that the FDA had erred in its decisions expanding and easing the pills’ usage.

Now it's up to the Supreme Court to decide whether to turn back the clock, returning to the days when abortion pills could only be administered by doctors in their offices, and only up to seven weeks into a pregnancy.

Women, including in the vast swaths of the nation that ban or severely limit abortion, could still get the second pill, misoprostol, an ulcer medicine used off-label for abortions. But taken alone, it is associated with more cramping, bleeding and nausea. Realistically, women in restrictive states who want or need an abortion will have to hit the road and go elsewhere.

The Guttmacher Institute report on the increase in U.S. abortions attested to how frequent that extraordinary step already is. States without bans saw a 25% increase in abortions last year, on average, compared to 2020. The increase was greatest in states bordering those with bans. Blue-state Illinois, neighbor to antiabortion Indiana and Missouri, had a 72% increase; two-thirds of its patients weren’t Illinois residents. New Mexico, adjacent to Texas and Oklahoma, had 257% more abortions.

If the Supreme Court decides, again, for the antiabortion groups, those percentages will only increase. Scores of thousands more women will be forced to expend time, money and stress to travel out of state for medically approved healthcare, when for most of them, a prescription and pills taken at home is all they’d need.

It's little wonder that the demand for abortion rights has been driving voters to the polls. As Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. patronizingly wrote in the Dobbs opinion, “Women are not without electoral or political power.” And neither are the men who support women’s freedom. As in past elections since 2022, let's show the justice how right he was, if only in that one regard.

@jackiekcalmes

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times .

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