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,
junk science that was pu forward by antiabortio opponents that contradicts the 20 plus years of safe access t mifepristone that women have relied on two and pregnancie safely it just is really a crisis o democracy and it s a crisis of health care. right after the, texa ruling a judge in washington state ordered the fda not to rollback approval of the drug. however, that ruling only flie to the 17 states in washington d.c. where democratic s tierne general made the challenge meanwhile, national outlet - after two black lawmakers rose expelled from the tennesse house after protesting gun violence in the chamber. their white colleague wa spared, msnbc s simone sanders sat down with the legislator in an interview later today. this whole process has been a farce of our due process it s been a farce of our constitutional system of government and so everything about this, even the trial tha they had, it was when the verdict was decided before we even started talking. we re n
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
transformative this ruling i and the need to pause it t grant that stay, i expect we will be in front the supreme court sooner than we know it ali. let s assume that to be the case michelle, let s take the supreme court, there are a lot of people in this audience and in this country who would say, this is doomed, if it goes t the supreme court we know ho that s going to go except there are specifics about this case that are a little bit perverse. the judge s comments in a lo of cases that far exceed wha the faintest were even saying. the issues of standing, th comments he makes about wome and their inability to represent themselves in a case if you had an abortion, yo have to musculature partly think straight the fact that there is a competing decision by anothe federal judge. it - is a less obvious that it migh be the supreme court, they may have an issue with this really but one would hope so excep that what we understand from the dobbs decision, from the lobby decision is that t
a very good day to all of yo from msnbc headquarters in new york welcome to alex reports. we begin this hour breaking, news women across the countr face growing uncertainty dis overdoing federal court ruling on whether they can use th abortion pill, mifepristone, a texas judge walked the fda approval of the drug it s now on hold for seven days earlier the president and ce of planned parenthood gave her reaction to msnbc. an opinion like this that is s politically motivated that it not grounded anything but junk science, he literally cites th