Biden administration appeals Texas abortion pill ruling, setting up legal fight

The Biden administration announced it would appeal a ruling by a federal judge in Texas to halt the approval of mifepristone, effectively banning the sale of the abortion pill across the country.

The Justice Department declared on Friday evening that it would contest the ruling, opening the door for a protracted legal battle over abortion access across the country. Higher courts will have time to consider the Biden administration’s’s appeal before the ban on mifepristone goes into effect for another week.

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According to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Justice Department will invoke the District Court’s’s ruling in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine volt. FDA and request a stay pending appeal. The FDA’s’s professional opinion that mifepristone is safe and effective, which was made more than two decades ago, is overturned by the current decision. The Department will keep defending the FDA’s’s choice.

The FDA’s’s approval of mifepristone was halted on Friday by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk until a legal dispute over the medication can be resolved. Kacsmaryk claimed in his 67-page decision that the FDA had failed to assess the pill’s’s mental or long-term care effects despite its safety and effectiveness.

A federal jury in Washington State issued a conflicting order shortly after the Texas ruling that would prevent the FDA from limiting access to the products in the almost 12 blue state that previously filed the lawsuit. It is more likely that the matter may be brought before the Supreme Court because that ruling conflicts with the Texas choice.

The Supreme Court’s’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June, which made it possible for red states to enact strict abortion restrictions, led to the filing of the lawsuit to ban the pill. Many anti-abortion health organizations claimed that when the FDA approved mifepristone back in 2000, it went beyond its governmental authority.

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The FDA has stated time and time again that abortion remedy is a secure and efficient substitute for medical abortions. Reversing mifepristone’s’s agreement did” cause serious and irreparable harm to patients across the country ,” according to arguments made in a court filing by the American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and some health associations.

Although abortion rights organizations had previously warned that taking mifepristone off the market might induce pregnancy clinics to turn to medical pregnancies only, which was flood many facilities, the extent of the effects of doing so is unknown.