A federal judge in Texas delivered a major blow to reproductive rights advocates Friday, ordering a hold on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone, an abortion medication used in the United States since 2000
The Trump-appointed Texas judge in an abortion pill case is a former attorney for a Christian legal group who has ruled on LGBTQ, immigration issues.
The administration is “very much concerned about this challenge to FDA authority and want to fight it in the courts as robustly as possible,” said Kirsten Moore, executive director of the EMAA Project, which advocates for access to medication abortion. “We are ensuring at the state level that we — not only Planned Parenthood but all abortion providers that provide medication abortion in California — have the option of switching to a [misoprostol]-only protocol if that becomes necessary in light of the decision and subsequent actions by the FDA,” said Lisa Matsubara, general counsel and vice president of policy at Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California.
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine filed the case in Amarillo, Texas, in hopes of landing it in front of a conservative judge sympathetic to their cause. The federal court in Amarillo is represented by only one judge, so plaintiffs knew Kacsmaryk would hear their case.
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