The High Court’s ruling overturns a Texas Federal judge ruling against the Biden FDA abortion avaialble policy and a Appeals Court, that ruled partially who followed the Texas judge’s action.
The order from the court was a one paragraph and actually sent the case BACK to the Appeal’s Court….
They will are now ordered to ‘reveiew’ the Texas judges’ order….
I’m no lawyer….
But in sending this back I would assume the Appeal’s Court has been told that the Teaxs judge screwed up….
The case could bounce around for another year…
This IS a YUGE victory for women usimng a medication abortion, which has moved above 50% in America….
The two leading judges against Dobbs and Roe, Alito and Thomas dissented ….
That ruling is disapproved by more than 60% of the American public….
Supreme’s CAN read…..
The Supreme Court said Friday evening that the abortion pill mifepristone would remain widely available for now, delaying the potential for an abrupt end to a drug that is used in more than half of abortions in the United States.
The order halted two rulings that had sought to curb the availability of the mifepristone as an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit moves forward: one from a federal judge in Texas who suspended the drug from the market entirely and another from the appeals court that had imposed significant barriers on the pill, including blocking access by mail.
The one-paragraph order, which was unsigned, is the second time in a year that the Supreme Court has considered a major effort to sharply curtail access to abortion. In overturning Roe v. Wade in June, a conservative majority said that it was leaving the issue of abortion to elected officials.
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Two justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., dissented publicly. Justice Thomas gave no reasons. Justice Alito wrote that he was aware that the court had been criticized for issuing orders through the emergency applications docket, what critics call the “shadow docket.”
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Reaction was swift, from both abortion rights proponents and opponents. “The Supreme Court’s decision is a huge relief, but we’re not out of the woods yet,” said Nancy Northup, head of the Center for Reproductive Rights, adding that the Texas ruling blocking access to mifepristone had “sowed chaos, confusion and panic.” Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, said through a spokesman that the ruling was a disappointment.
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The order was in one sense no surprise, as members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority have generally supported the F.D.A.’s authority to make decisions about drug safety.
Source...NY Times
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Washington Post explination of the Appeals Court action….
The justices were considering a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that reversed several FDA actions since 2016 that increase access to mifepristone — approving the drug’s use through 10 weeks of pregnancy instead of seven, allowing patients to get mifepristone through the mail and authorizing prescriptions by medical professionals other than doctors.
The appeals court action followed U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s recent ruling in Texas to suspend the FDA’s approval of mifepristone altogether. More than 5 million women have used mifepristone to end their pregnancies since it was first cleared for use in the United States in 2000.
The Biden administration and drugmakers called Kacsmaryk’s decision an unprecedented attack on the expertise of the FDA, which relied on data from dozens of clinical trials when it approved the drug. They told the Supreme Court that the lower court rulings would create chaos for abortion providers and upend the FDA’s regulatory authority, with far-reaching repercussions for other drugs.…
Note….
This IS also about a single Federeal judge shuting down FDA approval of drugs for the entire country by their experts after 20 years….The Texas judge it has been revealed, has been hostile to any abortion access….
Alto is NOT a happy camper on this….
BTW?
The Supreme Court has NOT ruled AGAINST abortion in America…
It just sent the decesions to the states….