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FIRST ON FOX: Top Republicans take abortion pill fight to Supreme Court, citing coercion and safety risks

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FIRST ON FOX: More than 100 Republican lawmakers are urging the Supreme Court to reinstate abortion pill restrictions, warning current policy allowing mifepristone to be mailed without in-person oversight has led to cases of women being coerced — and in some instances allegedly forced — to take the drug.
The amicus brief, led by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., backs Louisiana’s legal fight to restore an in-person dispensing requirement for the drug.
At the center of the filing are allegations that loosened federal rules have enabled coercion, with lawmakers arguing the Biden-era policy «increases the risk of coercion,» referring to changes to the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) that removed the in-person requirement.
The brief points to several alleged cases in which abortion pills were obtained online or administered without a woman’s consent, including plaintiff Rosalie Markezich, who says her boyfriend ordered mifepristone from a California doctor and coerced her into taking it.
ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE SPARKS NEW PRO-LIFE DEBATE AS SOME DOCTORS STRESS SAFETY CONCERNS
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., speaks during a Senate hearing while pointing to a chart showing fetal development stages on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Courtesy U.S. Senate Photographic services)
«Had she visited a doctor in person, her boyfriend would never have been able to obtain the drugs he made [her] take,» the brief says.
Lawmakers also cite additional reported incidents, including a case in which a Louisiana mother allegedly obtained abortion pills online for her teenage daughter, leading to a medical emergency, as well as another case involving a man accused of administering the drugs to a pregnant woman without her knowledge.
Lawmakers argue such cases are more likely under a system that allows abortion pills to be prescribed online and shipped without face-to-face medical screening.
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Activists for and against abortion demonstrate outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24, 2024, three years after the Dobbs decision. The demonstration coincides with a landmark Texas filing seeking to prevent interstate abortion pill mailing. (Allison Robbert/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
They say the policy not only weakens safeguards but puts women at risk while removing protections designed to prevent abuse.
Cassidy said those safeguards should be restored immediately.
«Chemical abortion drugs kill innocent children and put mothers’ lives at risk,» Cassidy said. «Safeguards protecting against coercion, such as the in-person dispensing requirement, must be reinstated immediately. The Fifth Circuit got this right, and I urge the Supreme Court to affirm that decision.»
ABORTION PILL FIGHT HEADS TO SUPREME COURT AS MANUFACTURER WARNS OF ‘CHAOS’ AFTER RULING

Anti-abortion activists hold signs outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022, following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP)
The filing comes after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Louisiana and reinstated the in-person dispensing requirement while litigation continues.
Lawmakers argue the FDA «overstepped its authority» by allowing abortion drugs to be distributed through the mail, saying the policy conflicts with the Comstock Act, which prohibits mailing items «designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.»
Smith also argued the drug poses serious risks, citing claims that more than one in 10 women experience complications such as infection or hemorrhaging.
They also contend the agency relied on insufficient safety data when it removed the in-person requirement, weakening adverse-event reporting standards and then using limited data to justify expanded access.
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Louisiana lawmakers approved a bill on May 23, 2024, classifying two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances despite criticism from doctors about their other reproductive health uses. (Allen G. Breed/AP)
The brief further argues that eliminating in-person visits prevents doctors from screening for serious medical conditions, including ectopic pregnancies, and makes it more difficult to detect coercion or abuse.
The legal fight intensified over the weekend when mifepristone manufacturers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro filed emergency appeals to the Supreme Court, warning the lower court ruling is already causing «immediate confusion and upheaval» across the country.
Danco argued the decision is disrupting access and forcing providers, pharmacies and patients to navigate rapidly changing rules, while GenBioPro said the order effectively eliminates mail-order access and upends a system relied on for years.
The companies are asking the justices to block the ruling while litigation continues, setting up a high-stakes legal battle that could reshape how the abortion drug is distributed nationwide.
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The Supreme Court is now weighing emergency requests from the manufacturers, which are seeking to pause the 5th Circuit’s order while the case proceeds.
The outcome could reshape access to abortion pills nationwide, determining whether they remain widely available by mail or are once again restricted to in-person medical oversight.
«There are legitimate concerns about these drugs putting women and girls at significant risk,» said Leader Thune. «I urge the Supreme Court to reinstate the safety guardrails that were in place before the Biden administration while the Department of Health and Human Services reviews these drugs.»
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Cuáles son las 8 especies de roedores silvestres que pueden transmitir el hantavirus en Argentina

Los hantavirus son un grupo de virus que viven en roedores silvestres. Son transmitidos a los humanos sin que el animal portador se enferme.
Si bien los roedores pueden transmitir esos virus con una mordedura, la vía más común es través de sus heces, orina y saliva. Esas secreciones liberan partículas virales en el aire, y así cualquier persona que las inhale queda expuesta al contagio.
La dimensión global de esa amenaza quedó en evidencia esta semana: la OMS confirmó un brote a bordo del crucero MV Hondius, que partió de Ushuaia en abril, con tres muertos y al menos siete casos.
La hipótesis principal es que el caso índice contrajo el hantavirus Andes antes de embarcar, durante un viaje por el Cono Sur.
Esa cepa es una de las nueve que circulan en territorio argentino asociadas a enfermedad humana.
En diálogo con Infobae, la bióloga Karina Hodara, quien hizo su tesis de maestría en Biometría sobre un modelo de transmisión de hantavirus en la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), señaló que «ya se han identificado ocho especies de roedores silvestres con capacidad de portar y transmitir hantavirus a personas en el país».
Los roedores silvestres no buscan al ser humano ni lo atacan. Son parte de los ecosistemas naturales y el contacto con ellos ocurre cuando las personas ingresan a su hábitat o cuando la expansión urbana reduce los espacios silvestres disponibles.
“Tienen una función clave en las cadenas tróficas. Son predadores de insectos, artrópodos y semillas. También son predados por predadores terrestres y aéreos de cada zona”, acotó la experta.
Para entender por qué los virus llevan ese nombre y cómo llegaron a Argentina, hay que “viajar” hasta un río coreano en plena guerra.

El nombre de la enfermedad viene del río Hantaan, en Corea del Sur, a orillas del cual soldados de las Naciones Unidas contrajeron una enfermedad hemorrágica grave durante la Guerra de Corea en la década de 1950. Más de 3.200 militares enfermaron con una tasa de mortalidad del 7%.
El virus tardó décadas en identificarse. Recién en 1977, el doctor Ho Wang Lee aisló el agente causal en un roedor capturado cerca del río que le daría nombre al patógeno.
“Durante décadas, los hantavirus se conocieron solo como enfermedades de Europa y Asia. Estaban asociados con síndrome renal por hantavirus en humanos“, aclaró Hodara, quien actualmente es profesora asociada del Departamento Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información de FAUBA.
Todo cambió en 1993, cuando un brote en la región de Four Corners, en el suroeste de Estados Unidos, mató al 90% de los primeros infectados detectados, todos por falla respiratoria aguda.
Ese brote reveló una variante americana del virus, bautizada Sin Nombre, y dio origen a un nuevo síndrome clínico: el Síndrome Cardiopulmonar por Hantavirus, que es la forma en que estos virus se presentan en el continente americano. Puede alcanzar tasas de mortalidad de hasta el 50% según la región y la cepa viral, según informó la OMS.

Ese nuevo síndrome no tardó en aparecer en el Cono Sur. En la Argentina, los primeros casos se detectaron en 1995.
En diciembre pasado, la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) informó que “Argentina continúa siendo el país que reporta el mayor número de casos de hantavirus” en la Región de las Américas.
Hasta principios de 2020, el Ministerio de Salud de la Nación había confirmado 1.982 casos distribuidos en cuatro regiones endémicas, con una mortalidad promedio histórica del 15,4% que trepó al 32% en 2025.
La mayoría de esos casos tuvo origen en el contacto con alguna de las especies de roedores silvestres que portan el virus, que se detallaron en un estudio publicado por investigadores del Conicet y la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba en la revista PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases el año pasado.
El virus Andes, sin embargo, es el único hantavirus del mundo con transmisión persona a persona confirmada, lo que significa que puede causar infecciones sin intervención de ningún roedor.

- La especie con mayor presencia en casos humanos es Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, conocida como el colilargo. Puede tener dos cepas distintas según la región: el virus Andes en la zona andino-patagónica y el virus Orán en el noroeste argentino.
- En esa misma región del noroeste, Oligoryzomys chacoensis es el reservorio del virus Bermejo, otra cepa del mismo género adaptada a ambientes más áridos.
- Calomys callosus, un roedor de campo, porta el virus Laguna Negra en esa misma región. Esa cepa registra la mortalidad más baja del país: alrededor del 1%, según datos del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación.
- Oligoryzomys flavescens —el colilargo pampeano— puede portar dos cepas diferentes: el virus Lechiguanas y el virus Central Plata, ambas presentes en la región central. Según Hodara, la mortalidad combinada de estas cepas en esa región alcanza el 30,8%.
- Oligoryzomys nigripes es el reservorio del virus Juquitiba, que circula en el noreste argentino —Misiones y Corrientes—. Hodara registró para esa cepa una mortalidad del 17,1% en los casos diagnosticados en esa región.
- Oligoryzomys microtis porta el virus Río Mamoré, originario de Bolivia, que también registra casos en territorio argentino.
- Akodon azarae porta el virus Pergamino en la región central del país.
- Necromys benefactus es el reservorio del virus Maciel en esa misma región.
Los hantavirus Pergamino y Maciel circulan en roedores pero hasta la fecha ningún caso humano de hantavirus fue atribuido a alguna de esas dos variantes.

Ante la ausencia de vacuna y tratamiento específico, la prevención es el único recurso disponible para reducir el riesgo de transmisión.
La cartera de Salud nacional recomendó mantener las viviendas limpias, sellar grietas de más de 0,5 centímetros, almacenar la leña a más de 40 metros del hogar y ventilar durante 30 minutos cualquier espacio cerrado antes de ingresar.
El organismo aclaró que “las partículas virales eliminadas por las excreciones de roedores infectados sufren rápida inactivación con la luz solar”, lo que refuerza la importancia de airear los espacios antes de entrar.
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Iranian dissidents seize on Trump remarks about armed resistance, fueling revival of Reagan doctrine

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After President Donald Trump suggested this week that Iranians «would fight back» if they had weapons, Iranian dissidents, military analysts and some Republican lawmakers are openly reviving a once-taboo question: should the West move beyond «maximum pressure» on Tehran and actively support armed resistance inside Iran?
«They have to have guns. And I think they’re getting some guns. As soon as they have guns, they’ll fight like, as good as anybody there is,» Trump said in an interview with «The Hugh Hewitt Show,» while discussing anti-regime unrest and the Iranian government’s crackdown on protesters.
The comments come as the Iranian regime emerges weakened from weeks of war, while frustration continues to simmer among many Iranians after years of failed protests and violent crackdowns by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
LINDSEY GRAHAM URGES US, ISRAEL TO ARM IRANIAN CIVILIANS IN ‘SECOND AMENDMENT SOLUTION’ TO TOPPLE REGIME
Protesters rally in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2026, supporting regime change in Iran following U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Supporters of a more aggressive approach argue sanctions, diplomacy and unarmed demonstrations have failed to produce meaningful change inside Iran and say the current moment may represent the best opportunity in decades to challenge the regime from within. Critics warn that openly discussing armed resistance could endanger protesters, deepen divisions inside the opposition and risk pushing Iran toward civil war.
The idea of armed resistance echoes aspects of the Reagan Doctrine, the Cold War-era strategy in which the U.S. backed anti-Soviet resistance movements around the world, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua.
«We need to give Iranians the tools now, and they’ll finish the job themselves,» Brett Velicovich, founder of Powerus and a former U.S. military and intelligence specialist focused on drone warfare, told Fox News Digital.
«It’s their time to do something. There has never been a better chance.»
AS AIRSTRIKES RAIN DOWN ON THE IRANIAN REGIME, CAN A FRACTURED OPPOSITION UNITE TO LEAD IF IT FALLS?

Smoke and flames rise at an oil depot in Tehran after airstrikes on March 7, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Feb. 28, leading to Iranian missile retaliation and increased concerns about global energy and transport disruption. (Sasan/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
Velicovich described the strategy as «Reagan Doctrine 2.0,» updated for the age of drones and decentralized warfare.
«Cheap FPV drones, loitering munitions, and small arms let motivated fighters turn Iran’s streets and mountains into a nightmare for the IRGC,» he said. «This isn’t fantasy; it’s asymmetric warfare that works.»
He argued that modern drone technology has fundamentally changed the balance between governments and insurgent or resistance movements.
«Drones democratize power,» Velicovich said. «The regime’s monopoly on violence ends the day the people get eyes in the sky and precision strike capability.»
IRANIAN KURDISH FIGHTERS SAY THEY’RE READY TO STRIKE TEHRAN, WAITING FOR OPENING

Iran is building a decentralized FPV drone capability in basement factories using Chinese parts, defense expert Cameron Chell warns, citing a potential threat to the U.S. homeland. (Getty)
Still, even some critics of the Iranian regime caution that the comparison to Cold War proxy movements has limits.
Unlike Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe or Afghanistan in the 1980s, Iran is a highly nationalistic country with a fragmented opposition and deep fears of foreign intervention following decades of conflict across the Middle East.
Still, calls for more direct support for anti-regime forces are increasingly moving into mainstream Republican foreign policy discussions.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., recently called for what he described as a «Second Amendment solution» inside Iran.
«If I were President Trump and I were Israel, I would load the Iranian people up with weapons so they could go to the streets armed and turn the tide of battle inside Iran,» Graham said on «Hannity.»
The question of who would actually receive support, however, remains deeply controversial.

Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi speaks at the Women’s Forum hosted by Vital Voices in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2023. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
Some opposition supporters continue to rally around exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose name has surfaced during anti-regime protests inside Iran and who has urged the international community not to give Tehran «another lifeline.»
Another group that has acted in various operations against the regime is the controversial People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran, or MEK, which has long positioned itself as an organized opposition force against the Islamic Republic. The MEK recently posted videos showing its members targeting «regime centers and symbols of crime and repression,» in response to the execution of two of its members last month — Hamed Validi and Mohammad (Nima) Massoum-Shahi.
Others point to existing armed or semi-organized anti-regime groups, including Kurdish organizations, Baloch insurgent networks and underground resistance cells operating inside Iran.
Sardar Pashaei, director of the Hiwa Foundation and a former Iranian wrestling champion now living in the United States, warned that publicly discussing arming protesters could itself put lives at risk.
«I think we must be extremely cautious on this issue, especially publicly, because the regime can use it as a pretext to arrest protesters, fabricate cases and even justify executions,» Pashaei told Fox News Digital.
IRAN’S INTERNET BLACKOUT HIDING STRIKE DAMAGE AND SUPPRESSING DISSENT, ISRAELI OFFICIALS SAY

A woman walks across a nearly empty public square in Tehran, Iran, with a large billboard displaying the portrait of the late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the background on March 3, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)
«For decades, the Islamic Republic has used accusations of ties to the United States, Israel, or espionage to target dissidents and political prisoners.»
Pashaei argued the better approach is supporting Iranian civil society, restoring internet access and backing democratic opposition groups that reflect Iran’s ethnic and political diversity.
The issue became even more sensitive after Trump said during a phone interview with «Fox News Sunday» in early April that his administration had previously attempted to send firearms to Iranian protesters through Kurdish channels, though the effort failed.
IRAN REGIME FACES ‘BEGINNING OF THE END’ AS EXILED CROWN PRINCE SEES ‘GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY’

Men and women hold Kurdish scarves and roses during Nowruz festivities in Saqqez, Iran, on March 15, 2024. (Barbod Khorshidi/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
«We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them. We sent them through the Kurds. And I think the Kurds took the guns,» Trump said.
Several Kurdish groups have denied receiving such shipments.
Pashaei warned that claims of foreign weapons support could deepen divisions inside the opposition while also exposing Kurdish groups to further retaliation from Tehran.
«During the so-called ceasefire period, Kurdish opposition groups were targeted more than 30 times with drone and missile attacks,» he said, adding that four young Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed, including 19-year-old Ghazal Mowlan.

Cars burn in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency’s value in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, 2026. (Stringer/West Asia News Agency via Reuters)
One source familiar with discussions surrounding Iranian opposition strategy said supporters of a more aggressive approach increasingly believe the current moment presents a rare opportunity to identify, train and support local resistance networks capable of protecting protesters and challenging the regime from within.
The source argued that while Iran spent decades building and cultivating proxy networks across the Middle East, Western governments largely avoided investing in organized anti-regime infrastructure inside Iran itself.
Others warn that empowering armed factions could trigger ethnic fragmentation, civil war or a Syria-style conflict inside Iran.
According to the source, supporters of a more aggressive approach increasingly believe the current moment presents a rare opportunity to identify, train and support local resistance networks capable of protecting protesters and challenging the regime from within.
Whether Washington is willing to move beyond pressure campaigns and sanctions toward something closer to a modernized Reagan Doctrine remains unclear.
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Members of security forces watch over the crowd during a funeral procession for IRGC Navy Chief Alireza Tangsiri and other senior naval commanders killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes in Tehran, Iran, on April 1, 2026. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
For now, Trump’s comments have pushed a once-theoretical conversation into the open, while some argue the current moment may represent the best opportunity in decades to challenge the regime.
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