it s been a very busy week all we start with the continue assault on women s ability t make decisions about our own bodies today, people rallied across the country for the right to have abortions that ryka change in just a few days because a little over a week ago, a federal judge in texas issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the fda 23 year old approval of th abortion pill, mifepristone. this was nothing short o devastating. the ruling effectively ban mifepristone and further restrict abortion access in ou country, even in states wher abortion is protected. now less than an hour afte that, ruling a judge i washington state issued contradictory ruling in anothe case, ordering the fda not t make changes to mifepristone access the justice department immediately appealed the rulin
it could be the case that this ruling from judge matthew because merrick is so an principled and lawless and frankly so not smart that even the fifth circuit can t hold its nose and deferment so that s one option they could simply say this ruling is completely and principled and they coul invalidated. they could also uphold the ruling they could also do nothing right? they could pause the rulin while the appeal is pending. but either way, whatever the outcome, i think we know where this goes next that s to the united state supreme court. so this circuit is just an intermediary way station on th way, and the real question her is the landscape of chaos an confusion be heard from around the country, doctors who don t know what is possible, whether they can prescribe medicatio abortion we have heard about states stockpiling mifepristone stockpiling misoprostol. this seems like a soviet red line for anyone who is in need o
how do you see this playing out? it could be the case that this ruling from judge matthew because merrick is so an principled and lawless and frankly so not smart that even the fifth circuit can t hold its nose and deferment so that s one option they could simply say this ruling is completely and principled and they coul invalidated. they could also uphold the ruling they could also do nothing right? they could pause the rulin while the appeal is pending. but either way, whatever the outcome, i think we know where this goes next that s to the united state supreme court. so this circuit is just an intermediary way station on th way, and the real questionhere is the landscape of chaos an confusion be heard from around the country, doctors who don t know what is possible, whether they can prescribe medicatio abortion we have heard about states stockpiling mifepristone stockpiling misoprostol. this seems like a soviet red line for anyone who is in need o
to remove its existing restrictions on mifepristone so, it is exactly the opposite of what was requested of judge kacsmaryk. they want more accessibility o mifepristone whereas those filing i amarillo want to sow complet inaccessibility of mifepristone and that judge in washington did not actually remove th rounds these are the risk mitigatio protocols of the fda puts in place on a drug. but it did say that the fda ha to maintain the status quo i those 12 states that were part of this lawsuit. and obviously, that is still a conflict with the texa decision because the texas decision essentially invalidates the approval process for a nationwide rulin on this question of the drug approval katie, new topic, the justice department is no conducting a probe into th classified u.s. documents abou the war in ukraine that someho ended up online. what can you tell us about thi and the doj s role so, anytime you see a lea
abortion that ruling came on friday evening, from a district judge in texas, who was appointed by donald trump it would suspend the food an drug administration s 20 yea old approval of mifepristone which is one of two medication that s used together in th majority of medication abortions in this country. in fact, they make up th majority of all abortions in this country now and that further complicates things, another federal judge, this time in washington state, issued a dueling ruling on mifepristone on friday night his decision, in an entirely separate case, bars the fd from, quote, altering th status quo and rights as i relates to the availability of mifepristone and now that we have these two contradictory rulings, the issue could soon land before the supreme court. in the meantime, there i bipartisan agreement, among th likes of new york democratic alexandria ocasio-cortez, an south carolina republican, nancy mace, who both say the republicans on the wrong sid of this issue, and