Federal judges issue conflicting rulings in a pill used for medication abortion<\/p>\n
A federal judge in Texas blocked the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. Another in Washington state issued a conflicting ruling. The matter now seems poised to head for the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Read more at The 19th<\/a><\/p>\n Federal judge blocks abortion pill approval<\/p>\n But the stay means FDA\u2019s longstanding approval has been blocked, a move that the Justice Department argued was \u201cextraordinary and unprecedented.\u201d In court filings ahead of the March 15 hearing, the government said the lawsuit was based on false claims of severe complications from the drug.<\/p>\n Read more at The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n Rival rulings on medication abortion hypercharge the post-Roe legal war<\/p>\n Jack Resneck Jr., the president of the American Medical Association, said in a statement that Kacsmaryk\u2019s ruling \u201cflies in the face of science and evidence and threatens to upend access to a safe and effective drug.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe court\u2019s disregard for well-established scientific facts in favor of speculative allegations and ideological assertions will cause harm to our patients and undermines the health of the nation,\u201d the AMA president said.<\/p>\n Read more at CNN<\/a><\/p>\n Democrats condemn Texas abortion pill ruling and the Trump judge who issued it<\/p>\n Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the ruling “another massive step towards Republicans\u2019 goal of a nationwide abortion ban,” adding that it “could throw our country into chaos.”<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Trump Judge in Texas Outlaws the Abortion Pill Nationwide<\/p>\n A federal district court judge in Texas<\/a> has issued an injunction suspending distribution of mifepristone<\/a> \u2014 a critical component in the two-step abortion pill regimen \u2014 nationwide. It\u2019s hard to overstate the magnitude of the order, which could make the drug used in most abortions in America unavailable to women throughout the country, even in states where abortion is legal.<\/p>\n Read more at Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Federal judges issue conflicting rulings in a pill used for medication abortion A federal judge in Texas blocked the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. Another in Washington state issued a conflicting ruling. The matter now seems poised to head for the Supreme Court. Read more at The 19th Federal judge blocks abortion pill approval But the … 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":[172,107,168,141,10],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-abortion-pills","tag-anti-abortion-judges","tag-anti-abortion-strategy","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}