Ruling on Abortion Medication, Recovery in Maui, Elections in Guatemala
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A new ruling sets up a legal show down over abortion pills.

A federal appeals court decision would restrict access to the common drug with a pistone. What happens if the case makes IT to .

the supreme court? I'm lela a folder that Michelle Martin. This is a first from N, P, R. news. In mari, residents say they're filling in the gaps left by a slugged h federal response to the deadly wildfires.

It's difficult because these are our people who are trying to take care of.

and rescue teams are still combing the area for human remains.

Elections are set for this weekend in guana, ala. A few years ago, the country was battling corruption, but that battle has stalled. Voters decide to pick up the fight again.

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court issued a ruling on the abortion medication method stone yesterday.

The F D, A approved methods stone twenty three years ago and today is widely use. Medication abortions account about half of all abortions in the us. And for now, if a pistone is still available, any place aversion is legal. But wednesday's ruling sets the stage for the supreme court to wait in on that empty .

cilliers cement stuff and is covering this story. And she's with us.

not to to tell us more. Good morning, good morning, the show.

So so tell us what this ruling does broadly.

So a panel of judges at the face circuit court of appeals and new rulings decided that mysteria should still have F D. A approval, but IT should be much harder to access. So as a reminder, this case came out of texas from several medical groups and doctors that oppose abortion.

They chAllenge to the food drug administration approval of member pistone and the changes IT made later to how the medicine is prescribed. So on wednesday, this appeals court agreed with those chAllenges and part and said, the fd should never have made IT easier to prescribe me per stone. Nothing changes yet though, because the supreme court ruled in April that access to mia per stone must remain the same until IT gets a chance to weigh in.

So when could that up and what could change at that point?

The supreme court can hear oral arguments in this case as soon as this fall. Um its decision could be different than this appeals court ruling. But if it's the same, access to this drug would change dramatically.

So under yesterday's ruling, access would essentially be rolled back to before twenty sixteen when doctors needed to prescribe this medication in person. And there were other restrictions. Here's how greer dominy put IT. SHE is a health law professor at the university of pittsburgh.

He would cost three significant changes to the sax, que. In terms of how build their access in this country.

Changes like no more telehealth appointments from if a prytany and no access after those very first few weeks of pregNancy. And this would be nationwide. So the ruling would reach out is that have been working to protect access to abortion and change things for patients and doctors in those states, too.

What is this ruling expected? Or is that a surprise?

IT was definitely not a surprise. This was a penal of three judges. They were all appointed by republican presidents.

Two were appointed by former president trump. In the hearing, they really hammed attorneys for the F. T and danko, which is the pharmaceutical company behind with a python. The alliances defending freedom, which is representing the plaintives in this case, was thrilled by the ruling and called IT a significant Victory. Department of justice released a statement saying it's strongly disagrees with the decision and will be seeking supreme court review.

And of course, this is the same court, the same supreme court, that overturned roady wait last year. What is our expectation about how they are going to respond to this ruling?

I mean, we will have to wait and see what happens. But many legal experts say this case has some weaknesses, especially when IT comes to the plenty of the argument that they have standing to sue. So mary zg ler is a law professor, A U. C. Davis, who's written books about the history of abortion.

My impression is that this is irritate, trying to resurrect what had been a pretty flag case in the hope that this supreme court is conservative enough that there's no case, two week or extreme relief for this cord on abortion.

I think many people will remember there was a separate federal case and with a briston, which was made by democratic states. Where's that now? yeah.

So a federal judge in washington state agreed with the chAllenges, who said that F. D. A. Was being too restrictive.

I, when I came to via pistone and ziller says these conflicting lower rulings makes IT more likely. The supreme court will take this up. So that's what will .

likely happen next. That's epr, sila sions, deff, sina. Thank you. Thank you.

Residents of west mali are starting to head back to their homes or what is left to them. As recovery from last week's wildfires continues.

Disaster responders have loosened restrictions on parts of the island, but with the death toll still climbing and thousands of people now homeless, some residents are frustrated by what they perceived to be a slow recovery.

Mp Gabriel spicer has been reporting from hana, hawaii, and he's with us now to tell us what he's seeing. Gabriel talks so much for joining us.

Sure thing the show.

gay bro, just to start t yourself. What are you able to see?

Well, they fully open the main road into west mail for the first time since the fire struck more than a week ago. The actual burry is still off limits, but we were able to visit in aid hub in a beach side park just a few miles north of central aha. And many people there are still had really basic needs, things like pet food and underwear. And and honestly, there's no real end and site for now is this is likely to be a really long recovery .

effort will just from we've all been able to see that this was just enormous in lahaina. Why do you think that people say that the recovery is moving slowly?

Well, there's a lot to be cautious about as they go through the burner. For one thing, it's extraordinary ly difficult to identify and even to find human remains. I talked with this forensic anthropologist and he said, that really takes a trained expert eye to spot, say, bone fragments in the rubble.

And then there's a huge concern about toxics. This fires burned so many buildings and vehicles that IT unleased just a whole stew of hazardous chemicals. So certain rescue teams are moving extremely. Meathead ally.

we've been hearing from a local residents who say they're filling in gaps that they feel have been left by their federal response. Are you hearing that? Yeah.

very much so. And and this eight hub that we visited, IT, actually a really good example. It's almost completely run by locals. And talking to folks there, you get a sense of the detention between these grassroots eight efforts and in the government response. Jeff Garcia lives just across the street from the aid station, and he's been volunteering every day at the info tent.

IT makes me kind of frustrated that like police telling us to start to move people towards the federally organized shelters just because we're more grassroots and not centralized, which is what they want, which is a valid concern. But also, it's difficult because these are our people who are trying to take care of.

You know, speaking of that, i'm just trying to think about how how this is all going to take place when so many people in community are also of victims themselves.

exactly. I think I talked to so many people who who went through hell themselves and then just put their heads down to go help their neighbors. I had a, got him, adam Perry, who's a former wild firefighter himself, and who who lives in lahn.

A he went up sheltering with a few thousand other people in a concrete parking structure. Is the fire past his own house was leveled. But adam says his firefighting training just kicked in .

the parking garage to go look for survivors and fireplace, even me up a couple times, I had to dive into need to fire and read over my back, felt like more we were at, more than in a fire country was exploding. Things were blowing up. I i've never seen anything like and like.

You really get the sense machine that people are still getting their heads around this unprecedented fire. One Young man who lost his Younger brother told me that he looked like .

paradise in hell. Well, before you let you go, as we are speaking now, just a small fraction of the victims have been identified. Even smaller percentage of them have a name so far. Do you have any sense or to people there have any sense of what people are going to expect to learn the coming days.

what people have been told again and again that these numbers are going to rise, that the search rescue teams have only come through about forty percent of the burning so far. And so this hostel, what officials call fees zero, which is the recovery of human remains and the clean up and eventually rebuilding, seem a long way off still.

That equals gave your spitter from lahinch in mail, gave you all, thank you so much.

You're welcome.

Now we're going to look ahead at the presidential election set for this weekend in guadala.

The first round in june was met with apathy, but IT produced a surprise candidate and a real choice about where the country is headed to step back. A second guard, ma, had been a place of hope. A few years ago, a brave movement back by the U.

S, N. U, N was fighting corruption and unity, but the establishment fall back, closing corruption probe, sidelining judges process. s. And even presidential hopeful.

And paris, a parotid is with a snail from mexico city to talk about how this vote could determine which way gana ma goes next to. Welcome, thanks for joining us. So the country is down to a run off vote between two candidates for prisoners briefly, as you can tell us about who they are and who's backing them so um .

the establishment is backing son at thoughtless from two thousand and eight two thousand twelve he was the first lady of what in my life and SHE let her husband's social programs which made her very popular but in two thousand eighteen and what the I was on this boracic ous anti corruption campaign, SHE was jailed. SHE was charged with misusing campaign funds.

But once this anti corruption test force was disbanded, the charges against her were dropped, and SHE launched a presidential campaign. The surprise candidate is Better, not A I, A, I. And he also has a political bloodline.

His father was the first democratically elected president in what they might lie in the mid forties. And he's been in ambassador wt, foreign minister. He ran anti corruption campaign, but his party didn't have much money. He was the one candidate you didn't see on billboards, so no one thought he could actually make IT to a second round. But here he is, and his campaign has reinvigorated this whole election process.

Granma was once a focus of the U. S. And the U.

N. Trying to address crime. That what happened to .

that effort is dead, uh, there was A U N. Back task force that conducted hundreds of investigations, but they were kicked out of the country. Many judges and prosecutors have fled, uh, or they've been bought off.

And we've seen some of the effects of that during the presidential campaign, the candidate who was leading in the polls during the first round was an outsider. He presented himself as an anti corruption crusader, but he was disqualified. Five weeks before the first round of this election, there was a moved that was condemned as anti democratic by the international community.

And he said he was the corrupt of what that my, I love trying to stop any effort to bring them to justice. But this campaign did change during the second round. Suddenly, corruption is the talk on the campaign, even on the authorities who had kind of side step.

The issue is now clear. Jail, the corrupt SHE says. So you have you've been .

telling us about lots of problems with these elections. Given all that, one of the chances that this vote, however IT turns out, will be disputed.

Well, there's already a lot of uncertainty. The offices of not allow the surprise candidate have been raided, and the court actually ruled that he should be disqualified from the race. Elector authority said that they didn't know if that decision was legal. So the elections in the campaigns that have continued, but also polls, show that guatemala's have little confidence in their electoral authority. So the table is set for either side to contest the results, and the table is set for a legal battle.

And the elections are this sunday. And when we going to have preliminary .

results overnight.

we should get them. All right, that's mp. s. AA corolla's mexico either.

Thank you. thank.

And that's up first for thursday, August seventeen.

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