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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Behind the Expulsions of Two State Representatives in Tennessee</strong> - How Republican super-majorities in state legislatures are undermining the democratic process. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/behind-the-expulsions-of-two-state-representatives-in-tennessee">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ro Khanna’s Progressive Case for Saving Silicon Valley Bank</strong> - The ambitious California congressman has made a career of navigating the demands of Big Tech and the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/ro-khannas-progressive-case-for-saving-silicon-valley-bank">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What’s Behind the Fight Between Pope Francis and the Latin Mass Movement?</strong> - The discord has become a stand-in for conflicts over the decline in Catholics’ participation in Mass, over the progressive orientation of Francis’s pontificate, and over Vatican II itself. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/whats-behind-the-fight-between-pope-francis-and-the-latin-mass-movement">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Really Happened at Waco</strong> - Thirty years later, an avoidable tragedy has spawned a politically ascendant mythology. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/what-really-happened-at-waco">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A New Phase in the Rollback of Abortion Access</strong> - A Texas judge’s injunction on the use of mifepristone has further eroded the country’s standing as a leader in reproductive rights. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-new-phase-in-the-rollback-of-abortion-access">link</a></p></li>
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<img alt="A row of white crosses with blue hearts stand in front of the bank’s steps, which are covered in colorful flowers. The sun shines on them, golden with late afternoon light." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/r7qaAuQ3KbADEHUQ85tnHcywXFc=/0x0:4809x3607/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72165587/GettyImages_1251752467.7.jpg"/>
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A memorial to those killed in the Louisville Old Dominion Bank shooting on April 10, 2023. | Michael Swensen/Getty Images
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There were multiple casualties in a shooting at a downtown bank.
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On Monday, at least five people were killed and eight were injured<strong> </strong>in a shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, according to police. The shooter is also<strong> </strong>dead, officers said.
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The shooting took place around 8:38 am ET in the first-floor conference room of Old National Bank in downtown Louisville. The shooter, a 25-year old white male who was an employee at the bank, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/louisville-kentucky-shooting-04-11-23/index.html">reportedly opened fire during a morning meeting</a> and livestreamed the attack on Instagram. Bank employees who had joined the meeting via video call also witnessed the violence and were among those who called police.
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Louisville Interim Police Chief <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkBWgYOq4B4">Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel</a> said the shooter was an active employee and there was “no discussion about this individual being terminated,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/us/louisville-ketucky-incident/index.html">after CNN had previously reported</a> that he had been told he was going to be fired from his job.
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Police described the shooting as a “targeted” attack since he knew the victims.<strong> </strong>On Tuesday and Wednesday, they also released <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/us/louisville-kentucky-bank-shooting-wednesday/index.html">audio of 911 calls</a> and body cam footage that captured a shootout with the shooter, and a distressed call from a woman inside the bank.
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The five reported dead are Joshua Barrick, Thomas Elliott, Juliana Farmer, James Tutt, and Deana Eckert, all of whom were employees at the bank. Of the people who were initially injured, three — including a police officer who was shot in the head — were still hospitalized, as of Wednesday; one, Eckert, died due to their wounds. The city of Louisville plans to hold a vigil for the victims at 5 pm ET at the <a href="https://twitter.com/AliCenter/status/1645914288819961856">Muhammad Ali Center</a> on Wednesday evening.
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Officers said the shooter used an AR-15 rifle that was legally obtained during the attack and had no “prior engagement” with police.<strong> </strong>Police have yet to disclose a specific motive, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/louisville-kentucky-shooting-04-11-23/index.html">with a law enforcement source telling CNN</a> that the shooter left a note for his parents and a friend.<strong> </strong>The shooting in Louisville follows other recent workplace shootings, including at a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay, California, in January, and at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, in November 2022.
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Some regional Democratic lawmakers have called for gun reforms in the wake of the shootings. “This isn’t about partisan politics. This is about life and death. This is about preventing tragedies,” said Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, who has been the victim of gun violence himself.<strong> </strong>At the national level, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1645469188813619209">President Joe Biden</a> shared his condolences and similarly asked, “When will Republicans in Congress act to protect our communities?”
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear did not make similar calls in his initial appearances; at one press briefing, he<strong> </strong>spoke emotionally about one of his “closest friends” who was killed in the shooting and said there would be time to discuss “issues” in the days to come.
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“Acts of violence like this hurt,” Beshear said. “They tear at the fabric of who we are, at our society, at our state, at our country, and this city. Today, I’m hurt and I’m hurting, and I know so many people out there are, as well.” <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article274175600.html">According to the Lexington Herald-Leader</a>, the legislature’s Republican supermajority has recently focused on bills loosening gun laws, including recently approving a policy that <a href="https://www.wtvq.com/bill-to-make-ky-a-second-amendment-sanctuary-becomes-law/">bars local and state police from enforcing federal regulations</a>.
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The Louisville bank shooting follows <a href="https://www.vox.com/23142734/covenant-school-nashville-mass-shootings">more than 100 mass shootings</a> that have taken place this year, including a school shooting at <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/27/23658533/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-school">Covenant School in Nashville in late March</a> that left six people dead.
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The country’s large number of shootings <a href="https://www.vox.com/23142734/covenant-school-nashville-mass-shootings">points to the unique problem</a> that the US, which has a significantly high rate of civilian gun ownership relative to other countries, has with firearms.<strong> </strong>A second shooting in the Louisville area on Tuesday at Jefferson Community and Technical College only served to underscore the pervasiveness of gun violence. At least <a href="https://www.wlky.com/article/lmpd-suspect-run-shooting-jctc-louisville-jefferson/43553620">one person was killed and another injured</a> in that shooting, which is not believed to be connected to the Old National Bank mass shooting.
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The US has a unique problem with guns
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<a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?page=1">According to the Gun Violence Archive</a>, which defines mass shootings as an incident in which four or more people are shot, the Louisville incident <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081">marks the 146th mass shooting</a> in the US in 2023.
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That’s far more than other places: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/health/u-s-most-mass-shootings/index.html">While it accounts for 5 percent of the world’s population</a>, the US made up 31 percent of the public mass shootings that occurred globally between 1966 and 2012, according to a 2016 study from <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26822013/">University of Alabama criminal justice professor Adam Lankford</a>.
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The US also has more civilian-owned guns than any other country in the world, <a href="https://www.vox.com/23142734/covenant-school-nashville-mass-shootings">with one 2018 estimate</a> putting the number at <a href="https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-BP-Civilian-Firearms-Numbers.pdf">120.5 firearms per 100 residents</a>. For comparison, the countries with the next highest civilian gun ownership levels are Yemen, at 52.8 firearms per 100 residents, and Montenegro, at 39.1 firearms per 100 residents.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/23142734/covenant-school-nashville-mass-shootings">As Vox’s Nicole Narea has explained</a>, researchers have identified clear links between gun ownership and gun violence. Notably, <a href="https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/">a study from the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety</a> has also found that states with weaker gun laws have higher rates of gun violence.<strong> </strong>According to Everytown, Kentucky is among the states with weaker laws, with legislators rolling back a permit requirement for <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-03-01/kentucky-lawmakers-pass-nra-backed-concealed-carry-law">carrying concealed handguns in 2019</a>. The Kentucky legislature also recently passed <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3903941-kentucky-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-make-state-a-second-amendment-sanctuary/">“Second Amendment sanctuary” legislation</a> that directs local law enforcement to ignore federal firearms bans.
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More aggressive gun reforms, like an assault weapons ban, have been stymied at the federal level due to Republican opposition. Last year, Congress <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/6/23/23180893/senate-gun-control-bipartisan-bill-2022-pass">passed a bipartisan gun control package</a> that included a narrow set of reforms including funding for states to implement “red flag” laws, more screening for gun buyers under 21, and a crackdown on illegal guns.
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Republicans, who have close ties to the National Rifle Association and who fear backlash from their base voters, have broadly signaled, however, that they aren’t interested in doing more on the issue at this time.
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<em><strong>Update, April 12, 5:15 pm ET:</strong></em><em> This piece was originally published on April 10 and has been updated with new developments, most recently to reflect the shooter’s employment status and the release of additional law enforcement documents. </em>
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Bouquets of flowers lie at the entrance of the Old National Bank for the victims of the mass shooting on April 11, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. | Michael Swensen/Getty Images
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The Louisville shooting is the latest such incident, though they remain rare.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/10/23677156/louisville-shooting-kentucky-active-shooter-police">Monday’s mass shooting</a> at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, is the latest instance of horrific gun violence in a workplace. According to Louisville police, the shooter was an “active employee” at the bank, and there had been no “discussion about this individual being terminated.” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/us/louisville-ketucky-incident/index.html">CNN had previously reported</a> the shooter had been told he was being fired from his job.
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The Louisville attack follows other recent workplace shootings including on a mushroom farm in <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/26/23571698/asian-americans-california-mass-shootings-monterey-park-half-moon-bay">Half Moon Bay, California</a>, in January and <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/shooting-virginia-walmart.html">at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia</a>, in November 2022. Both were perpetrated by someone who was employed or formerly employed by these establishments.
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Mass shootings at work, like mass shootings generally, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/shootings-us-news-wisconsin-united-states-brewery-shooting-950c07fc95752095d7336b0a053ffd9b">are rare occurrences</a>. Though more common in the US than elsewhere in the world, mass shootings make up less than <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/26/1101423558/how-can-mas-shootings-be-prevented-definitive-answers-are-hard-to-come-by">1 percent of gun violence deaths in the US</a>, and workplace shootings comprise a smaller subset of those fatalities. The workplace is the most common location for a mass shooting, however, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/workplaces-common-mass-shooting-site-data-shows/story?id=98502802">the Violence Project</a>.
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And mass shootings in the workplace have seen a slight uptick in recent years. Since 2020, there have been eight such mass shootings, per data that James Densley, a sociologist at Metropolitan State University, shared with Vox. That’s a higher rate than in preceding years, when there were nine workplace mass shootings documented between 2010-2019. In the decades before, such shootings were more prevalent, however, with 14 taking place between 2000-2009 and 17 occurring between 1990-1999.
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According to gun violence experts, workplace mass shootings typically involve current or former employees who have a problem with the workplace, who have easy access to guns, and who may be experiencing their own mental health challenges. “They are underlined by some grievance with the workplace and the people in it. But mass shootings generally, including workplace shootings, are more deeply driven by despair,” says Densley.
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There could be several factors behind the increased frequency of workplace mass shootings in recent years compared to the previous decade. The data suggests they’ve gone up slightly as more people <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fedex-killings-mark-return-mass-workplace-shootings-paused-pandemic-n1264355">physically returned to work</a> when different places reopened. Around that same time, overall workplace gun violence also spiked. In 2021, for example, there were 387 fatal shooting injuries in workplaces, compared to 304 in 2020 and 351 in 2017, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t02.htm">per data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>.
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“It’s quite possible there will be an increase in these kinds of killings when people who have been working remotely start to return,” James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston, told NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fedex-killings-mark-return-mass-workplace-shootings-paused-pandemic-n1264355">in April 2021.</a> <a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/11/i-team-workplaces-top-target-for-mass-shooters-attackers-usually-have-connection/">According to the Violence Project</a>, most of these mass shootings — 70 percent — involved an employment issue like a firing, 23 percent involved interpersonal conflict, 13 percent involved an economic issue, and 13 percent involved a legal issue.
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<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64377360">Mass shootings have also increased overall</a>, and workplace mass shootings appear to be following the same trends as gun violence in general, says Jaclyn Schildkraut, the executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute. Workplace shooters tend to pick these locations because of “ease of access and familiarity of the location,” she adds.
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There were <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64377360">33,599 gun-related deaths in the US in 2019,</a> and that number jumped to 44,290 in 2022. That broader increase has taken place as more people have purchased guns during the pandemic, and as people continue to navigate emotional and financial stressors related to it. According to one <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8697522/">paper</a> published in the <em>Annals of Internal Medicine</em>, roughly 7.5 million people, or nearly 3 percent of US adults, became new gun owners between 2019 and 2021. A study from the University of California Davis and the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center noted that <a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/gun-violence-statistics-covid-19-pandemic/">increased gun ownership</a> as well as factors like “financial stress, tension [and] trauma,” exacerbated by the pandemic have played a role in rising violence.
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Policies may be a factor, too. During that same time, more states abolished permitting requirements for carrying a concealed handgun in public, which research has <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/fact-sheet-weakening-requirements-to-carry-a-concealed-firearm-increases-violent-crime/#:~:text=Scientific%20research%20consistently%20shows%20that,gun%20homicides%20and%20violent%20crime.">linked to a rise in shootings</a> as well. “The relaxation of laws about carrying guns in public has clearly led to a rise in gun violence generally, and I assume this impacts workplace violence along with schools, malls, grocery stores, and so on,” says Drury Stevenson, a University of Houston law professor who has studied workplace violence.
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Moving forward, experts note that there are proposals that have the potential to reduce mass shootings. Specific gun control policies — such as permitting requirements — have been tied to lower incidences of mass shootings overall. And specific workplace responses, such as early reporting of threats, could help curb such incidents.
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There are policies, such as requirements for gun permits and licenses, that researchers have found to be related to lower mass shooting rates overall, while other policies, like stronger concealed carry laws, have been found to lower workplace violence in general.
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According to a <a href="https://rockinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/policy-solutions-public-mass-shootings.pdf">report from the Rockefeller Institute</a> compiled by multiple gun violence researchers, there are state laws that effectively lead to fewer mass public shooting incidents. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/13/17658028/massachusetts-gun-control-laws-licenses">Massachusetts</a>, which has the lowest rate of gun deaths in the country, for example, requires that people obtain a background check, complete paperwork, and sit for an interview in order to get a license to purchase a gun. Making it harder to get a gun reduces the number of guns in circulation, which appears to reduce rates of gun violence.
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Additionally, laws that banned large-capacity magazines, or the ability for a gun to fire off many rounds of ammunition in a short period of time, were tied to fewer victims in shootings. According to <a href="https://www.everytown.org/solutions/prohibit-high-capacity-magazines/">data from Everytown for Gun Safety</a>, a gun control advocacy group, mass shootings that included shooters using high-capacity magazines had nearly 10 times as many casualties.
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“Several studies have demonstrated that permit laws reduce overall rates of firearm homicide,” <a href="https://rockinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/policy-solutions-public-mass-shootings.pdf">the researchers write</a>. “Thus, an increased difficulty in obtaining a gun appears to translate into a decreased use of guns in the commission of crime. This same conceptual framework may explain our finding that states with permit laws experience a lower rate of mass public shootings.”
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A study published in the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6951380/"><em>American Journal of Public Health</em> in 2020</a> focused on lowering not just mass shootings, but all workplace violence. It found that “as states strengthened regulations related to firearms, workplace homicide rates decreased.” In particular, more stringent concealed carry permitting, domestic-violence-related restrictions, and stronger background checks, coupled with other gun control polices, could reduce <a href="https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/nation-world-society/social-work/researchers-probe-gun-policies.html">workplace homicides by 3.7 percent</a>.
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These laws can ensure that those who’ve made violent threats don’t have access to guns, Stevenson notes. In San Diego, there have been more than 1,000 restraining orders put <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11939499/red-flag-laws-in-california-san-francisco-san-diego">forth under the state’s ERPO law</a>, including in cases of workplace and school threats<strong>. </strong>
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“HR processes are key to workplace violence prevention,” says Densley, including “training all employees to look for warning signs of despair and establishing reporting mechanisms so people can get connected to help they need.” Educating people about how to identify and report threats, and then developing a plan that manages the concern, is important, experts say.
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The thinking behind an approach like this — much like in the case of extreme risk protection orders — is that there are observable behaviors that some perpetrators of violence have exhibited in the past, and that identifying these behaviors could help prevent or restrict them from going down a dangerous path.
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Studying the effectiveness of threat assessments can be difficult, as <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/can-researchers-show-that-threat-assessment-stops-mass-shootings">the New Yorker’s Matthew Hutson writes</a>, since they are designed to prevent violence before it happens. But putting together a process to identify and address such threats is one thing companies of all sizes can do in the face of government inaction.<strong> </strong>
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<em><strong>Update, April 12, 5 pm ET:</strong></em><em> This story was originally published on April 11 and has been updated to reflect police statements about the shooter’s employment status. </em>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/17/23512766/supreme-court-matthew-kacsmaryk-judge-trump-abortion-immigration-birth-control">Matthew Kacsmaryk</a>, a federal judge in Texas, issued an April 7 decision <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/4/7/23593396/medication-abortion-pills-mifepristone-misoprostol-pregnancy-texas">suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s approval</a> of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to conduct medication abortion — a procedure that makes up the majority of abortions in the US.
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Although mifepristone has been used for more than 20 years in the US with few severe side effects, the judge agreed with the argument put forth by the plaintiff, the anti-abortion group Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which claimed that the FDA had <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/4/7/23593396/medication-abortion-pills-mifepristone-misoprostol-pregnancy-texas">bowed to political pressure</a> from the Clinton administration in approving the medication and did not adequately evaluate safety concerns. Former FDA Commissioner Jane Henney <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169318342/former-fda-commissioner-defends-original-approval-of-mifepristone">defended her agency’s approval to NPR</a> this week, saying, “Mifepristone was handled in a very proper way. It was given a very thorough review. It was not rushed.”
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Kacsmaryk’s ruling provided a seven-day waiting period for the case to be appealed. But the situation has raised big questions about mifepristone and medication abortion. Here are some of those questions and their answers.
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Mifepristone is one of two drugs used to perform an abortion. It blocks the hormone progesterone, which maintains the interior of the uterus. If progesterone is blocked, the uterus can’t support a pregnancy and the embryo is detached. The FDA recommends the drug be taken within the first 10 weeks of a pregnancy, though the World Health Organization recommends it up to 12 weeks.
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Medication abortion — the combination of mifepristone and<strong> </strong>a second drug, misoprostol — has <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/02/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions">become the most common method</a> for ending pregnancies in the United States, partly due to its <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/evidence-you-can-use/medication-abortion">safety record</a>, its <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01528">lower cost</a>, diminished access to in-person care, and greater opportunities for privacy.
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Mifepristone has been used by over 5 million women in the United States since it was first authorized by the FDA 23 years ago. In 2016, the FDA <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/nda/2016/020687Orig1s020MedR.pdf">reported</a> that mifepristone’s “efficacy and safety have become well-established by both research and experience, and serious complications have proven to be extremely rare.”
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Mifepristone is also used for other situations like miscarriage management, and <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/mifepristone-oral-route/side-effects/drg-20067123?p=1">helping patients</a> with Cushing’s syndrome who also have Type 2 diabetes. <em>—Rachel Cohen</em>
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Kacsmaryk’s decision has not gone into effect yet, meaning nothing has changed since before the decision was issued. Doctors in <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-later-abortions">states without total abortion bans</a> can still prescribe mifepristone for abortions, and patients can still get it at clinics, by mail, or at a <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/blog/i-heard-that-you-can-get-the-abortion-pill-at-pharmacies-now-instead-of-directly-from-a-nurse-or-doctor-is-this-true-and-what-if-abortion-is-illegal-in-my-state">pharmacy</a> (if their pharmacy has been certified to dispense it).
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If the FDA is ultimately forced to rescind its approval of mifepristone, it will have to decide how to enforce that decision, which will determine how health care providers respond and where and how patients can get the medication.
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But, regardless of what happens, the medication will not become a controlled substance like heroin or other illegal drugs. Instead, for people who are still able to get mifepristone (more on that below), possessing it will be legally the same as having most other drugs<strong> </strong>without a prescription — a misdemeanor, not a felony, in most states. Having mifepristone would be akin to having Viagra or a statin drug without a prescription, said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel and policy director at the reproductive justice legal group If/When/How.
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Reproductive justice advocates aren’t especially worried about people being prosecuted for possessing mifepristone without a prescription, but are concerned about people being criminalized for taking mifepristone to end a pregnancy if Kacsmaryk’s ruling goes into effect.
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Currently, taking the drug is not explicitly illegal in most states — <a href="https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/sma-faq/">only two</a>, South Carolina and Nevada, actually have laws against self-managed abortion, procedures patients complete<strong> </strong>outside the medical system using pills obtained online or through friends or acquaintances.
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In other states, prosecutors have attempted to charge people for ending their own pregnancies under homicide or assault laws or other statutes, often after they sought medical treatment. Prosecutors may become more zealous in prosecuting people for taking abortion medication in the wake of Kacsmaryk’s ruling, Diaz-Tello said, but only because it will increase attention to and scrutiny of medication abortions — the actual laws around self-managed abortion have not changed.
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These legal nuances are likely to be confusing to the average American who is, as Diaz-Tello put it, “just living their life and trying to figure out a way to exercise some control over their reproductive future.” If/When/How <a href="https://www.ifwhenhow.org/repro-legal-helpline/">maintains a legal helpline</a> where people can get free, confidential advice about self-managed abortion. “I really want people to know that they’re not alone in trying to have to parse this,” Diaz-Tello said. <em>—Anna North</em>
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Many FDA-approved drugs come with some safety risks. But the high level of scrutiny means that over the last 23 years, we’ve learned a lot about mifepristone — and it’s shown that medication abortion is very, very safe. Rates of patient deaths due to mifepristone are lower for mifepristone than they are for <a href="https://www.ansirh.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/mifepristone_safety_4-23-2019.pdf">Tylenol, penicillin, or Viagra</a>.
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A 2013 <a href="https://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(12)00643-9/fulltext">report</a> reviewed results from 87 studies, which included data from more than 45,000 people who’d had medication abortions worldwide. It found the drug combination effectively ended pregnancy in 95 percent of patients. It also showed that serious side effects — symptoms so severe they required hospitalization — were very rare. The most common ones were vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain, and infection. Symptoms this serious occurred in only 3 out of every 1,000 patients, and only 1 out of 1,000 needed a blood transfusion.
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For Americans, taking mifepristone is far safer than pregnancy: A 2012 study found the death rate associated with childbirth was <a href="https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/2012/02000/The_Comparative_Safety_of_Legal_Induced_Abortion.3.aspx">14 times</a> that associated with abortion.<em> </em>—<em>Keren Landman</em>
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The first of the two is Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision in <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/jnm4r233xat6tv4/ND%20Tex%20FDA%20decision.pdf?dl=0"><em>Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA</em></a><em>, </em>which halts the FDA’s 23-year-old decision to allow mifepristone to be marketed in the United States. Kacsmaryk’s order is not currently in effect, but it will take effect on April 14 unless a higher court intervenes.
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The second order is from Judge Thomas Rice in a case called <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/832ff674-557b-4ee0-b8e8-34663b927302.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5"><em>Washington v. FDA</em></a>, and prohibits the FDA from “altering the status quo and rights as it relates to the availability of Mifepristone,” at least in the 17 states plus the District of Columbia which filed this lawsuit. It is not possible for the FDA to simultaneously maintain the status quo, as Rice’s order requires, and to effectively bar mifepristone from the marketplace, as Kacsmaryk’s order will require if it takes effect.
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Neither of these orders are paragons of legal reasoning. Kacsmaryk’s order is a <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/23678636/supreme-court-anthony-comstock-abortion-mifepristone-matthew-kacsmaryk">train wreck</a> riddled with <a href="https://adamunikowsky.substack.com/p/mifepristone-and-the-rule-of-law-9c4">so many legal errors</a> that it raises serious questions about whether Kacsmaryk, a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/17/23512766/supreme-court-matthew-kacsmaryk-judge-trump-abortion-immigration-birth-control">longtime Christian right operative</a>, even attempted to comply with the law when he wrote his opinion. Rice’s decision, meanwhile, is less of a disaster than Kacsmaryk’s. But it is unclear why he had the authority to issue an injunction requiring the FDA to keep doing what it is already doing.
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In any event, there is a <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/16/23642927/supreme-court-abortion-matthew-kacsmaryk-mifepristone-texas-trump">decent chance that a higher court will intervene</a> before Friday — thus rescuing the FDA from the impossible task of trying to comply with these two mutually contradictory orders.
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The Justice Department has asked the Washington judge to clarify his order. But more importantly, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is right now considering the Justice Department’s <a href="https://affordablecareactlitigation.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/5c-us-stay-ms.pdf">request to temporarily block Kacsmaryk’s order</a> while this case is fully litigated on appeal. The DOJ asked the Fifth Circuit to rule on this request by noon on Thursday. And the court, which required both parties to brief this case on a highly expedited schedule, appears likely to honor that request.
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That said, the Fifth Circuit is probably the <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/27/23496264/supreme-court-fifth-circuit-trump-court-immigration-housing-sexual-harrassment">most right-wing appeals court in the entire federal system</a>. So it is more likely than not that the Fifth Circuit will deny the DOJ’s request; if that happens, the agency will almost certainly seek an emergency order from the Supreme Court halting Kacsmaryk’s order before it goes into effect.
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Though the Supreme Court is very conservative, it claimed in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</em></a> (2022), the decision overruling <em>Roe v. Wade</em>, that “it is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” Similarly, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a separate concurring opinion that his Court “must scrupulously adhere to the Constitution’s neutral position on the issue of abortion.”
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The current fight in the Fifth Circuit (and the possible coming fight in the Supreme Court) concerns only whether Kacsmaryk’s order will be temporarily blocked while this case is being appealed. There will be <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/16/23642927/supreme-court-abortion-matthew-kacsmaryk-mifepristone-texas-trump">another round of appeals</a> to determine whether Kacsmaryk’s decision should be permanently reversed. Those appeals will also be heard first by the Fifth Circuit, and then potentially by the Supreme Court.
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So, while there’s a real chance that a higher court will temporarily halt Kacsmaryk’s attempt to ban mifepristone as soon as Wednesday afternoon, the case may not be permanently resolved for months or more. <em>—Ian Millhiser</em>
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Until and unless Kacsmaryk’s ruling actually goes into effect, access to mifepristone is unchanged — people can still get mifepristone in <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/medication-abortion?gclid=CjwKCAjwitShBhA6EiwAq3RqAwEQp_3MkBVU--r8P9hZXRPbGfCusirs_kScLNghPFyHYr7BLSx8jRoCgPUQAvD_BwE">states that allow medication abortion</a>. If the ruling does go into effect, patients may not be able to get the medication at a clinic or pharmacy, or from <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22968993/abortion-pills-mail-medication-fda-texas">telehealth providers</a>.
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However, they will still have options for obtaining the drug. They can order pills either from the European-based nonprofit <a href="https://www.vox.com/23056530/aid-access-abortion-roe-wade-pills-mifepristone">Aid Access</a>, which bypasses US restrictions by prescribing the drugs to patients from overseas, or through <a href="https://www.plancpills.org/find-pills">alternative methods</a> vetted by the reproductive justice group <a href="https://www.plancpills.org/">Plan C</a>, such as mail forwarding, as <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/4/7/23593396/medication-abortion-pills-mifepristone-misoprostol-pregnancy-texas">Vox’s Rachel Cohen reported</a>. In addition, at least two states, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1162182382/california-strikes-deal-to-stock-up-on-abortion-pills#:~:text=Last%20week%2C%20Washington%20Gov.%20Jay,and%20Drug%20Administration%20in%202000.">Massachusetts and Washington</a>, have stockpiled doses of the medication in case it becomes unavailable nationwide. These states are also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/us/democratic-states-abortion-pills.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share">developing legal workarounds</a> to allow health care providers to stock and dispense the drug if Kacsmaryk’s ruling goes into effect.
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Though nothing is certain in the current legal climate, providers in states that are stockpiling mifepristone would probably be at low legal risk if they continue to prescribe it, said Rosann Mariappuram, senior policy counsel for reproductive rights at State Innovation Exchange, a group that works with state lawmakers on progressive policies. Authorities in those states, she said, are signaling that they are friendly to mifepristone and unlikely to cooperate with efforts to remove it from the market. <em>—Anna North </em>
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Getting Food and Drug Administration approval for a drug is an arduous process, and if it’s ever revoked, it’s usually because an investigation has revealed safety concerns, said Mariappuram.<strong> </strong>But that’s not what happened in this case; instead, if the drug’s approval is revoked, it would be because of a court ruling.
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The agency could simply send warning letters to providers who are prescribing mifepristone stating that the medication is no longer approved. “They don’t have to go further than that,” Mariappuram said. The FDA could also be more aggressive, by working with local law enforcement to seize the medication, or by filing suit to keep an individual or group from prescribing it. However, several progressive-leaning states, including New York and Washington, have already signaled that they want to safeguard medication abortion access, and may be unlikely to work with federal regulators to seize mifepristone or otherwise penalize providers who offer it.
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Some lawmakers, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/04/10/abortion-pills-ruling-mace-aoc">have said</a> that the FDA should simply ignore Kacsmaryk’s ruling. That will likely be difficult, Mariappuram said, since the conflicting ruling by Rice in Washington state requires the FDA to maintain approval of mifepristone. Moreover, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/08/biden-appeals-abortion-pill-ruling-texas-mifepristone-00091105">legal experts</a> have cautioned that just ignoring Kacsmaryk’s ruling wouldn’t really protect access to the drug, since doctors might be afraid to prescribe it in such an uncertain legal landscape, and a future Republican administration could always decide to abide by Kacsmaryk’s ruling and act aggressively to get mifepristone off the market.
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With two competing rulings, too, Mariappuram said, the FDA will probably have to do something — and what it does will probably depend on how or if the rulings hold up in court. Even if Kacsmaryk’s ruling prevails, one legal scholar <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/08/biden-appeals-abortion-pill-ruling-texas-mifepristone-00091105">told Politico</a> that the FDA could “re-initiate the approval process of mifepristone all over again to get it back on the market.” However, it’s unclear if that option is on the table at this point. <em>—AN </em>
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In states where in-person abortion clinics exist, people can still access surgical abortions. But those procedures typically <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01528">cost more</a> and wait times for an appointment will likely be longer, given the already existing staffing challenges clinics have been managing since <em>Roe’s </em>overturn.
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Another option would be ordering pills either from the European-based nonprofit <a href="https://www.vox.com/23056530/aid-access-abortion-roe-wade-pills-mifepristone">Aid Access</a>, which bypasses US restrictions by prescribing the drugs to patients from overseas, or through <a href="https://www.plancpills.org/find-pills">alternative methods</a> vetted by the reproductive justice group <a href="https://www.plancpills.org/">Plan C</a> such as mail forwarding. “We will not let this unjust ruling stop people from accessing abortion pills, which are readily available through alternate supply routes in the US,” Plan C co-director Elisa Wells said after the Texas court ruling came down.
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It’s also possible to pursue medication abortion using only <a href="https://www.vox.com/23672829/what-is-misoprostol-abortion-medication-mifepristone-kacsmaryk">misoprostol</a>. While not FDA-approved, this method is backed by the World Health Organization, and is a common way of ending pregnancies <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/abortion-pill-misoprostol-effectiveness/671465/">around the world</a>. In February, researchers found <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1363/psrh.12219">misoprostol-only abortions in the US</a> to be 88 percent effective, with few incidents of serious adverse events or signs of a potential abortion complication.
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Some abortion providers have been preparing to offer misoprostol-only abortions if mifepristone is taken off market, though many say it will take them time to transition. The National Abortion Federation, <a href="https://prochoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-CPGs.pdf">in its clinical guidelines</a>, says that “where mifepristone is either not legally available or inaccessible, misoprostol-alone regimens may be offered.” Because misoprostol has been FDA-approved to treat stomach ulcers and can be prescribed off-label for solo use, there is less concern that access to that drug will disappear. <em>—RC</em>
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asks his Dad, “Daddy, what is politics?” Dad says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I’m the breadwinner of the family, so let’s call me Capitalism. Your mom, she’s the administrator of the money, so we’ll call her the Government. We’re here to take care of your needs, so we’ll call you the People. The nanny, we’ll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we’ll call him the Future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense.” So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. The little boy goes to his parents’ room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father having sex with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, “Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.” The father says, “Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.” The little boy replies, “Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in Deep Shit.”
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Two prawns were swimming around in the sea one day. The first one was called Justin and the second one was called Kristian. They were continually being chased and threatened by the sharks that inhabited the area.
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Eventually Justin had had enough. He said to Kristian, “I’m fed up with being a prawn. I wish I was a shark, and then I wouldn’t have to worry about being eaten all the time.”
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Then one day he was swimming all alone as usual when he saw the mysterious cod again. He thought it’d be better if he could go back to his old life so he swam to the cod and begged to be changed back. The cod worked his magic and suddenly Justin was a prawn once more.
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As he opened the coral gate, the happy memories came flooding back. He banged on the door and shouted, “Kristian, it’s me, Justin, your old friend. Come out and see me again.”
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I’ve found Cod. I’m a prawn again Kristian."
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The waitress comes to take their orders. Cheney orders an omelette. She turns to the President and asks for his order. President Bush turns to the waitress, smiles, and says sweetly, “honey, could I have a quickie?”
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“Mr President!” shouts the waitress. “I thought you were bringing a new era of decency and morality to the White House, but now I see that was all a LIE!!” She storms off.
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