BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas has ruled to suspend the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a medication abortion pill.
About half of all abortions in the U.S. were medication abortions as of 2020, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Such methods usually rely on mifepristone in a two-drug regimen along with misoprostol.
Erik Baptist, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, the group that filed the lawsuit, said after the hearing that the judge needed to provide a check on the FDA, which he said ignored safety concerns with mifepristone -- an allegation the government and most medical doctors refute. Used boxes of Mifepristone pills, the first drug used in a medical abortion, fill a trash at Alamo Women's Clinic in Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 11, 2023."The FDA never had the authority to approve these drugs and remove important safeguards," Baptist said.
Government lawyers defending the FDA said at the hearing that the government has reviewed extensive data and found no such safety concerns. "The public interest would be dramatically harmed" by siding with the plaintiffs, said Julie Straus Harris, an attorney for the Justice Department, while Baptist urged the judge: "Relief must be complete and nationwide."Outside, pro-abortion access advocates were blunt.
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