A legal battle in Texas could have implications in Colorado when it comes to access to abortion pills. The ruling could force the FDA to remove a widely used abortion pill from pharmacies and physicians’ offices nationwide.
: mifepristone, which blocks the pregnancy hormone, progesterone; and misoprostol, which induces a miscarriage. Both drugs have long and safe track records: Misoprostol was approved in 1988 to treat gastric ulcers, with mifepristone earning approval in 2000 to end early pregnancy.
“He’s made statements in opposition to reproductive rights, linking up reproduction to the feminist movement and making anti-feminist statements,” said Elizabeth Sepper, a law professor at the University of Texas-Austin, adding that the Supreme Court’s decision last summer in, allowed the suit against the FDA to proceed. “Prior to, the right to abortion would have stood in the way of this lawsuit. But now the conservative legal movement feels empowered.
Harle, however, said that the FDA used a provision to approve the drug that should be used only for medications that treat illness, and that pregnancy is not an illness, but a condition.Mifepristone’s approval was investigated in 2008 — during the Republican administration of George W. Bush — by the Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog, which found that the process was consistent with FDA regulations.
“I think chemical abortion does great harms to women and their unborn children,” she said. “And that’s what this lawsuit is really about.”
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