drug kristen, which has been safely used for decades by millions of women in medication, abortions, that competing ruling as well affecting 12 states, from a judge, a federal judge in washington state just moments ago, attorney general garland said the justice department will appeal the texas ruling, quoting from the statement, quote today s decision overturns the fda as expert judgment. rendered over two decades that mifepristone is safe and effective. the department will continue to defend the fda decision. joining us now by phone is minnesota democratic senator amy klobuchar, who sits on the senate judiciary committee. senator klobuchar. i m wondering what your reaction to the two rulings is particularly texas ruling. this is just a complete shock for women across the nation. um this is medication. abortion is safe . it was approved, as pointed out by the attorney general over 20 years ago. the approval process took four years. yet this judge and notoriously
more than nearly five decades of precedent protecting a woman s right to make her own decision about her health care. he s now said this drug, which is literally used for more than half the abortions in the u. s um it cannot be used. now he stayed as opinion for one week so the justice department will appeal on behalf of the fda. they re going to have one week to do that. and they go to the fifth circuit. notoriously again conservative circuit, um and then they will decide if it could stayed for a longer time. and if that doesn t work, of course, they go to the supreme court. i was talking to congresswoman alexandria, casio cortez earlier in the program. she said she believed the biden administration should just ignore the texas ruling. is that something that you would support? um but i believe that in the law and i think what you re going to see here, um is an uprising of women across the country that you ve already
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prior history and background there on so there s no question that not just forum shopping in the sense of well, i d like to file this in the southern united states were or you know, in the northeastern united states where i might have a better chance of winning, but specifically seeking out, one particular judge and trying to engineer or an outcome. this wasn t many respects sort of a policy decision in search of a core to help effectuate it. laura that the fda is obviously federal agency. presumably state legislatures can t really intervene in this. no, i remember look back to the dobbs decision. remember a lot of this. pandora s box has been opened, obviously, by the overturning of roe v. wade and much of this should have been foreseeable for the nine supreme court justices to anticipate what it would look like when you have a patchwork or confusion with respect to what it looks like in terms of a surgical abortion or a medication abortion, the latter of which of the doctors spoke ab
is not doing enough to ease access to this drug totally opposite from the other case, and the federal judge here. who is an obama nominee. he gave them a partial win. he said. look for now, the fda cannot withdraw this drug. so if you re confused, you have a right to be one judge blocking it, although he put it on hold and the other saying that in the states where he has jurisdiction, it has to stay on the market. very confusing. so what happens when they re conflicting rulings like this? so one thing we know when you have to district courts who are saying opposite things, you know for sure that there is going to be a quick appeal. so a higher court an appeals court or the supreme court can sort this out, and that s what we know it s going to happen. it s going to move quickly with the appeals and it is going to end up back somehow, in some form before the supreme court and keep in mind. it was less than a year ago that the supreme court reversed roe