Judge’s abortion pill decision embraces extreme language and ideology of anti-abortion movement, experts say
In interviews, several legal and medical experts said Kacsmaryk’s decision was unprecedented and clearly ideological. His language and reasoning, they said, closely mirrored arguments and concepts put forward by the anti-abortion movement — at the expense of scientific consensus in some instances.
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The Hidden Radicalism Of The Abortion Pill Ruling: A Nationwide Abortion Ban
Tucked into a Texas judge’s decision to invalidate the federal approval of the medical abortion drug mifepristone is a much more sweeping goal: the implementation of a nationwide ban on all abortions.
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Upholding Kacsmaryk’s Decision Would Invite Challenges To Vaccines, Contraception
These problems with the case make it an enormous risk — even beyond making mifepristone unavailable for the millions who need it — should Kacsmaryk’s ruling be upheld. It could fling wide the floodgates to those seeking to challenge the FDA’s approval in an attempt to get certain drugs removed from the market.
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The Dishonesty Of Matthew Kacsmaryk’s Abortion Pill Ruling
Before we move on to the aftermath of the abortion pill ruling from Friday, it needs to sink in how bad U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s opinion was by any objective standard of intellectual honesty.
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