Federal judges seem open to restricting access to mifepristone abortion pill<\/p>\n
A case like this is without precedent and, former FDA commissioners have warned in court-submitted briefs, could severely impair the agency. Pharmaceutical companies<\/a> have also suggested that revoking mifepristone\u2019s approval could discourage them<\/a> from bringing new drugs to market.<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n Federal judges grill Biden administration on abortion pill<\/p>\n The American Medical Association and other leading health groups, as well as the pharmaceutical industry, have warned that a win for the challengers would invite ideological challenges to a host of medications \u2014 from contraception to Covid shots \u2014 and deter companies from developing and marketing new cures out of fear that FDA approval could someday be second-guessed and overturned by courts.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n Judge Chides Abortion Pill Lawyer for Being Mean to Trump Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk<\/p>\n Advocates for reproductive rights were not optimistic going into the hearing. \u201cWe know that the Fifth Circuit in general is incredibly hostile to abortion, and the judges who have been assigned to this case happen to be particularly conservative,\u201d Jennifer Dalven,\u00a0 Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said Monday on a call with reporters. She added that some have gone so far to call the three jurists \u201cone of the worst panels of judges that could have been assembled\u201d from the perspective of anyone hoping to protect access to the abortion pill<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more at Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n Right-Wing Judges Mulling Restricting Abortion Drug: Isn\u2019t The Real Problem Here How Mean You All Were To Kacsmaryk?<\/p>\n A panel of 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges \u2014 all Republican appointees \u2014 unapologetically carried water for the anti-abortion litigants Wednesday during oral arguments in a case where those litigants are trying to get an abortion pill, mifepristone, yanked from the market.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n Conservative judges hear challenge to abortion pill access in controversial lawsuit<\/p>\n \u201cThis case should\u2019ve been laughed out of court from the start \u2013 it has no basis in science, it has no basis in law, it\u2019s been roundly criticized by experts from across the ideological spectrum,\u201d Dalven said during a virtual briefing with reporters. \u201cBut we\u2019re living in strange times, and some judges have shown that they\u2019re willing to blatantly ignore the rule of law to achieve their own ideological goals.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019s approval could discourage them from bringing new drugs to market. Read more at 19th News … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,168,181,147,184],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-pills","tag-anti-abortion-judges","tag-anti-abortion-laws","tag-fda","tag-fifth-circuit-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}