Steve HermanAP: Judge halts FDA approval of abortion pill #mifepristone but delays the order to give time for the federal government to appeal.
And here’s a conflicting injunction from a judge in #WashingtonState prohibiting the FDA from pulling #mifepristone off the market. (It might apply only to the 17 plaintiff states plus #DC) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.waed.102225/gov.uscourts.waed.102225.80.0.pdf
The conflicting orders appear to create a legal standoff likely to escalate to #SCOTUS, notes the NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/health/abortion-pills-ruling-texas.html
AP: Access to the abortion pill #mifepristone in limbo after competing rulings from federal judges in #Texas and #Washington.
“Today’s ruling is another massive step towards Republicans’ goal of a nationwide abortion ban and could throw our country into chaos.” - Senate Majority Leader Schumer
“Today’s unprecedented decision threatens the rights of women nationwide to make decisions about their health care and the ability to access medication prescribed to them by their doctors.” - VP Kamala Harris in a statement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/07/statement-from-vice-president-harris-on-decision-in-alliance-for-hippocratic-medicine-v-fda/
Statement from Vice President Harris on Decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA | The White House
Today’s unprecedented decision threatens the rights of women nationwide to make decisions about their health care and the ability to access medication prescribed to them by their doctors. Simply put: this decision undermines the FDA’s ability to approve safe and effective medications—from chemotherapy drugs, to asthma medicine, to blood pressure pills, to insulin—based on science,…
“If this ruling were to stand, then there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks.” - President Biden in a statement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/07/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-decision-in-alliance-for-hippocratic-medicine-v-fda/
Statement from President Joe Biden on Decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA | The White House
Today a single federal district judge in Texas ruled that a prescription medication that has been available for more than 22 years, approved by the FDA and used safely and effectively by millions of women here and around the world, should no longer be approved in the United States. The Court in this case has…
“We will vigorously fight this unprecedented decision in court. We have appealed the decision and will seek a stay.” - HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
“This ruling by a hard-right Trump appointed judge is simply bullshitt...nothing more than another attempt by the GOP to take away the rights of women and implement a nationwide abortion ban," says Sen. John Fetterman in a statement.
#Mifepristone "remains safe and legal in Pennsylvania. We will fight this, and we will win.”
#Mifepristone "remains safe and legal in Pennsylvania. We will fight this, and we will win.”
LisaSoCal@w7voa “a hard-right Trump appointed judge…” some of us sure were outraged when Trump himself suggested rulings could be impacted if a judge was an “Obama judge.” Then we see decisions by Aileen Cannon, or the latest Trump-appointed SCOTUS and we’re all like “hmmm.” Does bias only lean one way?
kwh@w7voa turns out conservatives like regulation and the administrative state when they can weaponize it against women. 🤔
Laure@w7voa Washington judge orders FDA to not suspend abortion pill approval https://www.axios.com/2023/04/08/washington-judge-abortion-pills-texas
Darwin Woodka@w7voa or literally any other product, really.
Catherine is not complacent@w7voa I’m not saying they’d use this precedent to make estrogen unavailable or even to manipulate stock prices, but they would.
Realworldrj@w7voa someone shoild file a lawsuit canceling every merger because it was approved sloppily - id atart with t-mobile and sprint and just keep going
Myrha Cheval 🦆@w7voa If this misogynistic, irrational, radical decision banning this medication is allowed to stand, we should immediately go after Viagra and Cialis, because there is no Constitutional right to an erection and those drugs have numerous far more potentially dangerous side effects than mifepristone.
Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy@w7voa @Alienated53 Up next on GOP war on choice: Contraception.
JD@w7voa the states rights party 🙄
mf MD 
@w7voa Country's already in chaos, Chuck
Zhi Zhu 🕸️The GOP wants lawyers and judges, not doctors, to decide healthcare in the US.
Right now, they are focusing on limiting women’s healthcare, but if they succeed in setting laws that limit healthcare choices for women, they can succeed in limiting other freedoms for US women.
See thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/110028237201423897
Based on article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/15/abortion-pill-fda/
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Locksmith
Kevin RussellSay it is a step they planned to remove the right of women to control their own bodies, choose when to be pregnant, it is not a step to ending, because it will not be ended, and the corrupt supreme court will be repaired.
Sascha Siekmann 
@[email protected] Mason-Dixon line morphs into mifepristone line.
Flyover Project
Old Hippie Ⓥ@w7voa If these judges refuse to adhere to the law and precedence, their rulings should be ignored.
Jim Neal@w7voa Judge is fast lane for right wing legal alchemy.
Profile:
✅ Roman Catholic
✅ Five children “plus one stillborn”
✅ Federalist Society
✅ Trans are “mentally ill”
✅ Appointed by [yup]
You get it.
Scott Nasello 🐿️🏃♂️🏂@w7voa states rights except : abortion and guns amirite?