ABORTION PILL RULING: Judge SUSPENDS FDA Approval of Mifepristone

Here we go again-- on the Right Overreach Ride. One of the pharmacy drugs used for more than half of all abortions, mifepristone, has had its FDA approval invalidated by the Republican ringer judge in Amarillo, TX, Matthew Kacsmaryk. If this order goes into effect, it will no longer be available to anyone in the country. The judge has put a stay on his order for 7 days, before it goes into effect, to give the government the chance to appeal. But, the appeals court would be the most ideologically radical Right wing, 5th District. It would be up to them, whether to extend the judge's stay while they hear the case-- as would be expected, in normal times-- or let it go into effect, as the SCOTUS had allowed Texas's controversial law, allowing civil prosecution of residents who have abortions, remain in place, while in the appeals process.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna72117

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In an unprecedented move, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration's longtime approval of key abortion pill mifepristone, but gave the government a week to appeal his decision that could throw access to medication abortions into question nationwide.

The FDA approved mifepristone more than 20 years ago to be used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, to terminate pregnancies at up to 10 weeks. Over half of U.S. abortions are done by medication abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. The pills have become increasingly significant in the fights over abortion access that have ensued since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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What thickens the plot, is that another court, in D.C., hearing a different case, but on this same drug, today issued their own, opposite ruling, that the FDA has no authority to make any changes in this drug's approval; mifepristone has proven itself extremely safe, over 23 years of use, in the U.S. What this guarantees, is that this case will end up in a SCOTUS showdown. In fact, the government may take a page out of the playbook that the Right used, to speedily bump its abortion case to the Supreme Court-- basically, just asking the appeals court to rule against it, so it can be appealed, further up the chain.
It should be noted that this judge Kacsmaryk, had come from being a partner in a Right wing law firm, which had specialized in advancing these "conservative" types of legal objectives, though the federal court system.

 

republicans are destroying themselves with this nonsense

we told you all this would happen, next is birth control pills

 

Republicans just delivered 2024 to democrats on a silver platter.

 

Abortion pills should be available in free vending machines the world wide. We don't need stupid people having any more babies.

 

I think it’s hilarious how out of touch Republicans are. It could be a long time before they get the WH back.

 

To be fair, these are private citizen Republicans, who'd brought the case; and the Republican judge, is not an elected official, though he had been installed by Trump, for precisely this sort of dependable subservience to the hard right agenda. IOW, Republican politicians had certainly set the table, but did not initiate the serving of this particular course.



P.S.-- CORRECTION, For All: the other ruling, saying that the FDA is not allowed to pull approval from mifepristone, which came an hour after Kacsmaryk's, was from Washington State, not Washington, D.C.

 

Oh good, then the Washington state decision controls, being the most recent decision.

 

Great idea, but one would have to manually administer them daily.

 

Nonsense.

 

Christian right wing big money organizations bring the case and the plaintiffs are just a footnote name.
This is who backed the plaintiffs.

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"Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF, formerly Alliance Defense Fund) is an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group[6] that works to curtail rights for LGBTQ people;[7] expand Christian practices within public schools and in government;[8][9] and outlaw abortion.[10][11] ADF is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with branch offices in Washington, D.C. and New York, among other locations.[12] The global arm, Alliance Defending Freedom International, which is headquartered in Vienna, Austria,[13] operates in over 100 countries.[14]

ADF is one of the most organized and influential Christian legal interest groups in the United States[15] based on its budget, caseload, network of allied attorneys, and connections to significant members of the political right.[16][17][18] These include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett[16][19] and high-ranking Republicans such as former vice president Mike Pence,[20] former attorneys general William Barr[21] and Jeff Sessions,[22][17] and US Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley (husband of ADF senior counsel Erin Hawley).[23][24] ADF attorneys have argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court, including cases about religion in public schools, the Affordable Care Act, the legalization of same-sex marriage, business owners' right to not provide services for same-sex marriages, and prayers before town meetings.[25] They also wrote the model legislation for Mississippi's anti-abortion legislation, making them significant players in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the decision that overruled the fifty-year-old precedent case Roe v. Wade establishing the right to abortion"

cont:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom

 

Do keep up or at least check facts before posting.


Clashes Over Access to Birth Control Could Divide GOP’s Fragile House Majority


"After the Supreme Court tossed “Roe,” 195 House Republicans voted against the Right to Contraception Act"
December 8, 2022

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I"n July, a few weeks after the Supreme Court threw out the constitutional right to abortion, House Democrats passed the Right to Contraception Act with a small handful of Republicans. The relatively brief legislation protects the rights of patients and medical providers to access contraceptives, which are broadly defined to include condoms, IUDs, birth control pills, Plan B, and other methods. Contraception is widely used and largely uncontroversial, and the bill says nothing about abortion, but a whopping 195 House Republicans voted against it anyway.

Unsurprisingly, poll after poll has shown that a vast majority of voters support the fundamental right to access contraception and other basics of reproductive health. In 2019, about 92 percent of Gallup respondents said the use of birth control is “morally acceptable.” However, more recent surveys and midterm election results suggest that many voters did not know House Republicans voted against a bill to codify contraceptive rights, and when voters did hear about it, Republicans with extreme views faced headwinds among women and swing voters.


https://truthout.org/articles/clash...rol-could-divide-gops-fragile-house-majority/

 

That is NOT the way it is being depicted. I have heard no one mention the sequence of the rulings, being relevant. The appeal of Judge Kacsmaryk's ruling will be heard by the conservative 5th District Court, which will have the power to either stay that order, or allow it to go into effect. The fact that it contradicts the Washington judge's ruling, only means that the FDA will be damned, either way, so will be the reason that the SCOTUS will need to sort this out. It would be startling, if they allowed Judge K's order to go into effect, prior to the High Court ruling-- but no longer an unbelievable possibility.

 

That’s not how it works

 

Epically horrible decision... We'll have to add this idiot to the likes of ..... dammit... what was the name of that other idiot who granted Mango a special master?

They flame out so quickly, it's hard to remember them all..

That's right, Loose Cannon....

I hope people plan on ignoring this ridiculous ruling, regardless of what happens in higher courts...

 

Republicans appoint the judges, time to vote them out

 

that is what the right said about over turning Roe vs Wade

some Republicans even want to ban IUDs

 

That is also a fair point-- that even if it wasn't elected Republicans pulling the strings at this moment, the ones who were, the big donors to Republican politicians, are the ones who ultimately call the tune, and 'publican pols have faithfully sung in the choir, after these types of actions (and sometimes even sign on, with Amicus briefs).

 

Already presaged by Clarence Thomas

 

((((Sigh)))

If children being blown into small pieces by assault weapons does not move the GOP why should they care about young women being butchered in backyard “clinics”?

 

Agreed. Those assault weapons literally blowing kids into millions of pieces is horrible. I've seen it myself how young women having their arms and legs cut off and made into sausage on a sunny Saturday afternoon. I couldn't believe the Republicans could be so evil.

Honestly though, the GOP needs to reign in these idiots or they are going to hand the whole country over to the loony left.

 

They already have

Gen Z is very underwhelmed by the GOP

 

When our federal legislators set aside situations which arise in our society and spend their efforts and time in raising campaign funds and opposing the process of compromise, the result is legislation from the bench. When that in turn is driven by ideological considerations, we end up with the decisions noted above.

Sooner or later, someone is going to realize that interstate commerce is also involved and another layer of suits will follow. If nothing else, we're keeping lawyers off the bread lines.

Regards, stay safe 'n well.

 

Well, this should be a wake up call for all America. AND, you must respect to long game being played by some uber riche Dominionistic MEGA donors. Let's not (normal America) underestimate them again because they have KEY judges in place all down the line in control of most cases brought in the future.

 

Crickets from the resident conservatives. They know they done ****ed up. Thanks for guaranteeing four more years of democrats in the White House. You probably just handed them the House of Representatives, too.

 

Just more of their cancel culture.