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…
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