constitutional right t abortion was eliminated in thi country nearly a year ago. a federal judge in texas las night issued a sweeping ruling to reverse the food and s 23 year old approval of a key abortion drug, the rulin orders the fda to hold thi medication from pharmacy shelves in every state regardless of whether or not abortion is legal in tha state. u.s. district judge matthew ha put a seven-day hold on hi willing to give the government the opportunity to repeal it the justice department did fil a notice of appeal last night. let me tell you what is at stake here the drug in question is one of a standard two drug regiment commonly prescribed by doctors for medication abortion across the country. medication abortions account for more than half of al abortions in the united states according to the good doctor institute. and this was approved by the fda in 2000 is one the mos heavily studied and scrutinize drugs on the market. studies show that it is safe than penicillin,
mifepristone, first, federal judge in texas invalidates the drugs fda approval, hours later, a judge s ruling in anothe case, saying the opposite. that abortion rights advocat leans in on what the dueling rulings mean, for women access to potentiall lifesaving care. plus, the case against donal trump. we ll dig into the facts behin those 34 felony counts acros falsifying business records, i new york and where the histori prosecution goes from here i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. 136,378 people in tennessee ar now without representation i their own state house, all thanks to the action of th republican majority. yeah, this week republican lawmakers in tennessee, treate the second memo with mor reverence than the very bedroc of the republic they claim t love i m talking about democrac itself as parents students and legion of other everyday tennessean s demonstrated against gun violence, passionately but peacefully, at the state capital last week
transformative this ruling i and the need to pause it t grant that stay, i expect we will be in front the supreme court sooner than we know it ali. let s assume that to be the case michelle, let s take the supreme court, there are a lot of people in this audience and in this country who would say, this is doomed, if it goes t the supreme court we know ho that s going to go except there are specifics about this case that are a little bit perverse. the judge s comments in a lo of cases that far exceed wha the faintest were even saying. the issues of standing, th comments he makes about wome and their inability to represent themselves in a case if you had an abortion, yo have to musculature partly think straight the fact that there is a competing decision by anothe federal judge. it - is a less obvious that it migh be the supreme court, they may have an issue with this really but one would hope so excep that what we understand from the dobbs decision, from the lobby decision is that t