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Another pitfall is that subplots featuring abortion storylines are hard to pull off without feeling like a break from scheduled programming for an antiabortion or pro-abortion-rights PSA, or worse, a pointless exercise in bothsidesism.

The Supreme Court upheld access to the drug for early pregnancies under previous FDA regulations last year, but it has remained a target of antiabortion conservatives.

At the Senate hearing, Kennedy cited “new data” from a flawed report pushed by antiabortion groups — and not published in any peer-reviewed journal — to question the safety of mifepristone, calling the report “alarming.”

Franklin said she and her husband spent the hours after the explosion debating possible motives, speculating about a disgruntled patient or an extremist from the far fringe of the antiabortion movement, who might have sought to destroy embryos to “make a statement.”

Nate Hargus, an antiabortion activist, told the City Council: “Y’all guys are not voting on healthcare. You are voting on whether or not to kill innocent children. ... Y’all guys are willing to protect everyone but the ones that cannot protect themselves.”