“Similarly, FDA’s assertion that the district court’s injunction will harm pregnant women or other members of the public does not speak to the irreparable injury factor (although it may speak to other factors), because those persons are not stay applicants in this case.”
— from Wednesday’s ruling by a federal appeals court panel on whether to stay U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s overturning FDA approval of a drug used in more than half of all abortions in the United States.

Oh, good. I was just thinking: I have too many rights. We’ve got to cull, cull, cull! Do I really need to be voting and controlling my own body? That feels like much too much. Also, it’s spring! What better time to go through all the rights and see which ones spark joy and which ones don’t (uncensored proximity to books, bodily autonomy). Just like they’re doing in Florida! Constitution? Please! If we were all meant to be covered by it, we would have been explicitly included!
Isn’t all this rights nonsense getting in the way of more important things, like the ability of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to consider exciting hypotheticals not borne out by science: What if a drug that has been proven safe for decades … weren’t? Plus, millions of Americans have been given the gift of learning the name Matthew J. Kacsmary, most often used in the sentence, “Wait, Judge Kacsmaryk can undo the FDA approval of a drug used safely by millions for 20-plus years just … because?” It was good that the 5th Circuit did not need to think about the people most impacted by the decision to overturn Food and Drug Administration approval. After all, we’re not really people! If we were supposed to be people, we wouldn’t have uteruses.
Clearly, I have been addled by having too many rights, too much autonomy. All the voting had gone to my head. I see that now.
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Do I really need to be considered in cases that determine my ability to access medical care? No! It’s good that I am invisible to the people making this decision! Being invisible sounds nifty. Now I, too, can go into people’s homes and slap prescriptions out of their hands! I can get between them and their doctors without warning!
It is good that the impact on folks who are not the disgruntled doctors bringing this lawsuit is being cast aside like so much chaff. The last thing a court making a decision that could impact people capable of becoming pregnant should have to do is treat us like we’re relevant to the case. Because are we, really? Without the full protection of the law, I feel lighter already!
They say that with great power comes great responsibility. Well, it is good to know that I don’t have as many responsibilities as I thought I did! I say, laughing, through clenched teeth. Ha, ha, ha!
(I’m not sure how to feel about the fact that it’s Samuel Alito who, temporarily at least, restored my rights!)
Naively, I had thought this sort of thing could not happen because I was an individual with rights. But it turns out that judges can decide not to care about such things! The way they say there are laws and precedents that courts were bound to respect, I thought that meant people could not simply yank away rights in the night like a recalcitrant blanket, without regard to the evidence or impact. Then again, I am not a stay applicant in this case. What do I know?