The plaintiffs in this case are questioning the FDA’s scientific process for evaluating the benefits of drugs. According to the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, if the appeals court rules in favor of the plaintiffs, its effects will extend beyond abortion access: A constant barrage of legal challenges to federal approval could discourage drugmakers from bringing … Read more
Federal judges seem open to restricting access to mifepristone abortion pill A case like this is without precedent and, former FDA commissioners have warned in court-submitted briefs, could severely impair the agency. Pharmaceutical companies have also suggested that revoking mifepristone’s approval could discourage them from bringing new drugs to market. Read more at 19th News … Read more
The letter asks Steven H. Collis, the company’s president and CEO, to provide “the full list of states and jurisdictions” where the company intends not to distribute Mifeprex and “clearly outline the determination process and the rationale used to develop that list.” Read more at 19th News
The influential anti-abortion group Students for Life on Wednesday launched the next phase of its campaign to use the nation’s environmental laws to restrict the ability to terminate a pregnancy. Read more at Politico
Faced with a complex risk calculus, some clinics will continue offering mifepristone they have stockpiled, while others are preparing to drop medication abortion altogether. Read more at The 19th
Supreme Court Issues Stay, At Least Temporarily Blocking Mifepristone Restrictions From Taking Effect The Supreme Court granted the Department of Justice’s emergency request to temporarily halt lower court rulings that would have reimposed restrictions on mifepristone that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had lifted in recent years. The stay is in place until 11:59 … Read more
No, The Appeals Court Didn’t Save Us From Insane Decision Blocking Abortion Pill The Fifth Circuit panel broke from Kacsmaryk on rejecting the 2000 FDA approval, saying that the six-year statute of limitations to challenge that agency action has passed (though without much conviction, saying that the anti-abortion plaintiffs may win on that topic at … Read more
GOP largely silent on Texas ruling with party in a bind on abortion The Texas decision, which the Justice Department has appealed, could have far-reaching implications for access to abortion nationwide, as well as the authority of the entire FDA. It could restrict access to one of the two FDA-approved abortion drugs in every state, … Read more
A group of 69 Republican members of Congress filed a brief urging an appeals court to uphold the decision of a federal judge in Texas last week that would halt the prescription of a widely used abortion pill, after over 200 congressional Democrats lobbied for a reversal of the ruling. Read more at The Hill
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 … Read more
