The US Justice Department urged an appeals court on Monday to freeze a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that would ban a widely used abortion pill. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former Republican president Donald Trump, on Friday overturned the Food and Drug Administration's two-decade-old approval of mifepristone, which is used for more than half the abortions carried out annually in the United States.
The Texas ruling against the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, a pill that can be used for an abortion up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, could have major implications for abortion access throughout the country. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued his ruling, which could stop the prescribing and distribution of mifepristone, […]
they can only do things that involve the federal government, not the state. robert, this is a major issue in 2024. there s no question about it. look at the republican candidates in the primaries. mike pence is calling for an abortion pill ban. federally mandated. yeah. i think everyone who might have thought when this supreme court decision leaked that the issue had been settled, the months and really the hours after that certainly gave rise to the idea of just how tent this is in 2022 and in 2024. even if you talk to republican political strategists, a near ban or total ban on abortion polls at 10% nationally. it gives you a sense of really the exercise that goes on now to stake out the right ground here, to stake out ground that s politically safe, to stake out