A Trump-appointed Texas judge could force a major abortion pill off the market

[Nevilledog]

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/01/1153593174/mifepristone-abortion-pill-federal-texas-lawsuit-restrict-access-nationwide

A case before a federal judge in Texas could dramatically alter abortion access in the United States – at least as much, some experts say, as the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision last year, which overturned decades of abortion-rights precedent.

A decision is expected soon in the case challenging the Food and Drug Administration's approval more than 20 years ago of the abortion drug mifepristone, which a growing number of patients use to terminate pregnancies.

Jenny Ma, senior counsel with the Center for Reproductive Rights, says the outcome of the suit brought by a coalition of individuals and groups opposed to abortion - could amount to a "nationwide ban on medication abortion" with a greater impact than Dobbs.

"That decision left the decision about abortion up to the states," Ma says, "but this would be one court in Texas deciding whether or not medication abortion could be allowed across this country, even in states that have protected abortion since the Dobbs decision."

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[JohnSJ]

1. Does that asshole judge have the authority to overrule the FDA? If the SC allowed that, it would

set a terrible precedent, where any judge could overrule drugs over the FDA

[ck4829]

2. I'm sorry, I don't remember voting for any Texas judges

Kinda weird how they’re making federal government-spanning decisions.

[UTUSN]

3. Said it better than I could.