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,
That were literally endangerin the lives of both patients who need abortions for any reaso and patients to doctors woul have relied upon this drug t help manage their miscarriages , but there is a plot twist, within an hour of his ruling out of texas came anothe ruling, this time for th federal judge in washingto state. a group of democratic people had filed a suit to force th fda to make the same abortio drug, mifepristone, more accessible and to block th government from taking any action that would restrict access to that drug. the judge in that case, and bomb appointee thomas rice partially granted th plaintiffs request he did not agree to make the drug more accessible, but hi ruling does barr the fda fro doing anything that would make it less available in the state that brought the lawsuit states where abortion remain legal. so now the fda is looking at two directly contradictory orders, both from federa judges which means that one wa
A judge has merrick s ruling had in terms of inflammatory and partisan language. he said patience use this to quote kill the on born baby, judges usually use the ter fetus, he referred the process as a chemical abortion kill, baby, chemical burin are words we usually hear from judges when discussing abortion whether not they have antipath towards abortion judge has merrick knows that this is is an important ruling that is going to be scrutinized. does this give forces that don t agree with him and h likes? you know, judge has merrick was opposed when he wa nominated to the bench because people understood that he wa going to be a zealot he is a person whose lif experience includes voluntee -ism in the crisis pregnancy movement that is a series of center across the country that offe themselves to women as if they are reproductive healt clinics. really what they are offerin
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
Mentioned matt because merrick and ultraconservative devout christian trump appointee whos history of antiabortion view is well documented following the senate confirmation hearing republican senator susan collins joined every votin democrat in opposing car merrick s nomination to th bench, citing his extreme view on abortion and opposition t lgbtq rights she said the time quote, suc extreme statements reflect poorly on his temperament an suggest an inability to respec president and to apply the law fairly and impartially and quote. now as you would expect, mat incas barricades delivered t the antiabortion movemen exactly what they came for and order to remove from the market a safe effective an widely used abortion drug. it is a ruling that will force doctors to treat our patient with what they know is a lower standard of care every link that will roll back the bodily autonomy an reproductive freedom of half the american population and on