but the situation is far fro resolved the case will now go back to the fifth circuit court of appeals, which is considered t be the most conservative appellate court and the country, where it will be argued in front of a three judge panel beginning on may 17th. meanwhile, there are at leas two other cases regarding th legality of mifepristone in a separate case out o washington state, a judg recently ruled that the fd must preserve access to th pill, although the ruling in that case only pertains to the 17 states and the district o columbia that signed on this point of three days ago, genbiopro, the manufacturer of the generi version of mifepristone filed new lawsuit against the fda, i a bid to ensure their produc doesn t get pulled off the mar it at eight yet another strand of complication to the entir issue. because of how contentious confusing and conflicting this situation has become in just a matter of days, it s almos guaranteed we are going to regardless of how the fift circuit
supreme court hasn t ruled i all of the issue of abortion since the conservative majorit decided to overturn roe v. wad less than a year ago as typical, when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the more g i majority did not provide a opinion to explain that ruling nor do we know exactly how eac justice voted except for justices samuel alito an clarence thomas both of whom voted in the order that they dissented with the majority. but, this situation is far fro resolved the case will now go back to the fifth circuit court of appeals which is considered to be the most conservative court in that country where it wil be argued in front of a thre judge panel beginning on may 17th meanwhile, there are at leas two other cases regarding th legality of messy purse stone. in a separate case out o washington state, a judg recently ruled that the fd must preserve access to th pill although the ruling in tha case only pertains to the 17 states and the district of columbia that s
took place over 23 years ago their research on tuesday at noon, and incident minister of state that justice alito as th fifth circuit circuit just issued last week, will laps on wednesday which means we are likely to get a decision for the supreme court before wednesday. midnight and again, the cour could act to stay the entirety of judge has merrick s decision, or it could quite at some, aspects of it as a court o appeals did, or it could d nothing as it did in the cas of sva that texas and allowed us to go int effect, which would further so chaos across the country aroun abortion access. melissa, i hate to entertai this possibility to think wher the point where we have to, if that is in fact the case, that last option there and they d nothing, and this goes int effect what then can the bide administration do to keep th pill on the market well then i think the biden administration really have t take up the question whether it s going to exercise fda o course minute discretion, a
of donald trump. plus chilling surveillance video, released and th stabbing of a tech executive the latest on that case in the live report coming up as well. we begin though once more with the major developments o access to abortion medication. two major rulings from two federal judges have left the future of mifepristone, th most common medication used an abortions and jeopardy the first ruling came from a judge in texas who argue tha the fda violated safet concerns when approving th pill 20 years ago, two decades ago. the second ruling coming les than an hour from a federa judge in washington state wh ordered the fda to keep th medication available and the 1 states plus the district of columbi that filed suit against decision want to bring in nbc sasha who has been following it for us and if you can dasha walk us through the latest development in all of this and the fallout we are seeing? well let s be clear her yasmin, what we are talkin about here is national concern
decisions imagine where that could lead vice president kamala harri in iowa earlier this week no holding back about the ongoing attack on reproductive right in this country and she wa referencing a forthcomin ruling on medication abortio by trump appointed federal judge matthew kacsmaryk, which could come any day now if you overturned the fd approval of that drug, one o the two drugs that has bee used for certain abortions, th pill would no longer b available even in states where abortions are still legal. at a four-hour hearing thi week the judge seemed open t the argument that the drug could be unsafe even though th fda has repeatedly found the use of mifepristone to be safe and effective. we know that many gop le states have already passed nea total abortion bans, which includes the use of medication but last night, one governor double down mark horton of wyoming signed bill specifically bannin