A Texas judge bans the use of the abortion pill in the entire United States
The Biden government has a period of 7 days to appeal the sentence. Kamala Harris has denounced that it is an “attempt by certain politicians to tell the Medicines Agency what to do.”
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Protests in defense of the right to abortion in May 2022 in the US Photo: EFE
A federal judge in Texas issued this Friday a suspension that would end the prescription and distribution in seven days nationwide of mifepristoneone of the two drugs used to abort medically and which has been distributed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States market for more than two decades.
The district court judge, Matthew Kacsmarykappointed by former President Trump, has given the government a week’s window to appeal before his ruling takes effect.
The lawsuit against the FDA, brought by doctors and anti-abortion associations, claims the drug is not safe and alleges that the FDA did not study it carefully enough before approving it in 2002.
A second federal judge, this time from the state of Washington, Thomas Owen Rice, has ruled a few hours later in a new ruling that the drug must be maintained in at least 12 states: “It is not the role of the Court to review the scientific evidence and decide whether the benefits of mifepristone outweigh its risks without REMS and/or ETASU. That is precisely the role of the FDA.” The states in which it would remain are: Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland and Minnesota.
the vice president Kamala Harris, who has championed the cause of reproductive rights in the Biden government, said that the court decision sets a “dangerous precedent.” “It is contrary to good public policy to allow courts and politicians to tell the FDA what to do,” Harris said.
Planned Parenthood, the largest network of reproductive services clinics in the US, has rejected the ruling in a statement, saying it is an “unprecedented and deeply damaging measure.”
According to data from the Guttmacher Institute, medical abortions represented 54% of all abortions in the US in 2022.
Source: Eitb
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