the abortion pill can remain available but imposes temporary restrictions texas court judge recently blocked approval was done too recently. sean duffy co-host of the bottom line on fox business and rachel campos-duffy who hold the bottom line at her house on fox & friends weekend joining us now. what happened with this 2-1 washington decision? well, you had a step in and say look at fda they approved this drug by saying it was a life-saving drug to get around the rules around an abortion law. so now you have a process for women to have a chemical abortion at home via this pill and the problem is you haven t looked at the real risk this causes to women who have this drug van abortion at home. a chemical abortion. spikes in rates of women who take this pill going to the emergency room.
is a crisis for women. we saw a lot of this tension when, right in the immediate aftermath of the dabs decision when you heard from advocates you want to do, for example, declare a public health emergency. on abortion. the biden administration declined to do that. they have also emphasized that they re not going to just ignore this judge s ruling, like some democrats have called for, so they re trying to make another case, obviously working its way through the justice department, and they re also trying to make the public relations case the white house actually just distributed a brief from from pharmaceutical executives just now that they filed with the court that emphasizes, for example, the ripple effect that this kind of decision could have on actual life saving drugs and the fda approval. or the ability to approve those, so they re trying to make that case. but sometimes advocates say it s not enough. and so part of the legal arguments just regulatory authority. take abortion of t
going to happen at this moment. and one of the subsets about this is you mentioned judge kaczmarek, a trump appointee. question the plaintiffs. in this case, the original case sought him out a single district judge in west texas to get him and one of the things when people look at this is the bad administration says will follow. the law will fight this in the courts. but they also if you talk to people, a lot of people look at the wording in his decision, and they say this is this politics even here in his legal arguments he uses bud words. buzzwords from the anti abortion movement. chemical abortion. abortion is unborn, human, unborn child. so the critics of this decision say, you know if we re having a political conversation, the judges part of it, and it s actually a challenge that biden himself has dealt with so often over and over. because he is this traditionalist. he wants to kind of play by the rules. kind of not rock the boat a little bit, but especially progressives . abortio
and avoid the scrutiny. and quite frankly, it s not just about abortion. yes abortion is the pressing question. but we re talking about women with non viable pregnancies. we re talking about women going through miscarriages. we re talking again about other uses of these drugs for things that are not directly related to abortion, and that i think is what s also going to really put republicans in a tough spot because when you start talking about women s health um, and suburban women being such an important block that can sway an election. um there they republicans don t have a good answer right now. one just to back that up. if democrats thought this was a difficult argument for them, they would be quiet, too. but instead you see them stepping forward and we have again. a red state versus blue state thing. the governor of california, the governor of michigan, the governor, massachusetts among the democratic governors in blue states, saying we re going to by a lot of supplies of this myth