Ya can’t make this shit up…..
A Texas Trump appointed judge finally hands down a decsion that was waited for over month striking down the Biden admin’s FDA support of a abortion pill that has been on the market for years citing ‘political pressure’ for Biden’s effort to assure continued access to pill for those in states that have outlawed most abortion access…
The judge left a 7 day ok pending a Appeal effort from the Federal Government…..
Well?
The US Justice Department appealed the Texas judge’s actions within hours….
A few hours later we have a second ruling….
Upholdimng the ‘safety’ of the mifepristone pill from a Federal judge in Washington State!…..
THERE WILL NO STOP IN DISPENSING OF THE ABORTION PILL nationwide for NOW…..
The Biden admin FDA rule means things remain the same….
The case may or maynot end up before the Supreme ‘s who don’t start doing new cases until October….
Or…
They could do a expedited review at anytime…..
In a competing opinion late Friday, a federal judge in Washington state ruled in a separate case involving mifepristone that the drug is safe and effective. U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice ordered the Food and Drug Administration to preserve ‘the status quo’ and retain access in the 17 states — along with D.C. — that are behind the lawsuit seeking to protect medication abortion….
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Within hours of the Texas ruling, the Justice Department and drug manufacturer Danco Laboratories filed their notice of appeal. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the government would ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to allow the FDA to maintain approval of the pill pending the outcome of the case. Garland said in a statement that the department was still reviewing the decision out of Washington state.
President Biden criticized the Texas ruling in a statement Friday, saying the court had “substituted its judgment for FDA, the expert agency that approves drugs. If this ruling were to stand, then there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks.”
He called the decision “another unprecedented step in taking away basic freedoms from women and putting their health at risk.”
The conflicting and complicated decisions will likely put pressure on the FDA and the Biden administration to determine how to enforce the new mandates set by these rulings.
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Medication-induced abortion has become increasingly contentious since the high court overturned the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision last June, which allowed states to outlaw or sharply restrict the procedure.
Abortion clinics reached Friday night emphasized that the Texas ruling would not affect their care for the next seven days. Even then, if Kacsmaryk’s ruling takes effect, several providers said they would not stop prescribing mifepristone until they are instructed to do so by the FDA.
Many abortion clinics have been preparing for the Texas ruling for months. If they are forced to stop providing mifepristone, they say, they will continue to provide surgical abortions and, in many cases, a different medication abortion regimen that includes only misoprostol, the second drug in the standard two-step medication abortion regimen….
Note….
At some point the Supreme ‘s WILL have to decide if the Federal Government CAN issue national guidlines for things , or will it be up to the 50 state to run their own show on any and all things….
Will Red state’s just ‘do their own thing from now on?
Picking Republican appointed judges to get their way?
But ask for Federal money when things go sideways?
White House Plans Support for Abortion Pill Battle
“The White House is re-upping discussions with abortion pill manufacturers and U.S. pharmacy chains on ways to push back against efforts to ban mifepristone, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, as it gears up to appeal a Texas court ruling suspending the approval of the drug,” Reuters reports.