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,
for a stay of judge ha merrick s ruling, the ruling i scheduled to take effect as yo know on april 14th if the department does not get any response or an expedited briefing schedule for exampl that stays his ruling, befor april 14th, i expect that they will seek emergency relief fro the supreme court. that can come in a variety o forms, but one of the things that i think is really interesting here, and michelle can confirm this is that durin the trump administration, we saw an exponential rise in the number of times that conservatives and the trum administration itself tried to leapfrog federal courts and go straight to the supreme cour for the relief that they wanted now we are going to see that turned on its head as the bide administration learned those lessons well the fifth circuit is arguabl the most ideologically driven, the one most penetrated by trump appointees during hi administration i don t expect the fifth circuit, unless they are reall sympathetic to how