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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 03:51 PM Mar 2023

Transcript of Abortion Pill Hearing Reveals Texas Judge Used Anti-Abortion Terms During Questioning

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk promised on Wednesday to issue his “order and opinion as soon as possible” following a hearing in the federal case that could decide the future of mifepristone, an abortion drug that’s been on the market for two decades. But the details of the hearing weren’t publicly available until Friday night, when a transcript was finally released to the media.

According to the transcript, Kacsmaryk—a conservative Trump appointee with ties to the anti-abortion industry—seemed open to arguments made by the rightwing organization Alliance Defending Freedom to restrict mifepristone. In a back-and-forth with Julie Straus Harris, the Justice Department attorney representing the Food and Drug Administration, Kacsmaryk asked about “abortionist/patient relationships,” a term common in anti-abortion rhetoric.

ADF senior counsel Erik Baptist told the court that the “only practical and reasonable way” forward in the case was to issue an preliminary injunction blocking mifepristone use nationally (or at least rescind the FDA’s approval of the drug). “The FDA’s unlawful actions have harmed women and girls for far too long,” Baptist said. When it concerns mifepristone, that is categorically untrue.

Medication abortion is safer than penicillin and Viagra, and, in the U.S. where maternal mortality rates are already higher than in other developed countries, it’s also safer than carrying a pregnancy to term. If Kacsmaryk issues an injunction to—at least temporarily—ban mifepristone, it would throw chaos into the abortion care arena, where patients are already dealing with a dwindling number of providers and safe states to access care. However, a number of providers have said they are able to switch to using only misoprostol, which is currently used in conjunction with mifepristone in medication abortions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/transcript-abortion-pill-hearing-reveals-170000480.html

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WarGamer

(12,103 posts)
1. I've said this 300x
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 04:05 PM
Mar 2023

Make sure PP (or other similar groups) is well funded...

Develop a phone app... have airline tickets in your inbox within 15 minutes along with free vouchers for Hotel stays, rental car and living expenses like food, etc...

Someone meets you at the airport and you're driven to a facility near the airport and get the necessary care. Then go home.

I mapped this out once, there's not a single spot in the USA that's farther than like 75 minutes from abortion care.

no_hypocrisy

(45,771 posts)
2. After less than six months after he rules against mifepristone,
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 04:17 PM
Mar 2023

guess what?

Same plaintiffs will be back, asking the FDA no longer has the authority to approve birth control pills. (Fertilized egg thwarted from implantation on the wall of a uterus. MURDER!)

in2herbs

(2,942 posts)
6. Maybe tfg stirring the pot about his imminent arrest is bc he knows the opinion
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 06:05 PM
Mar 2023

is set to be release on Tuesday and he wants to deflect because K is one of his appointees. Wouldn't surprise me.

PlanetBev

(4,098 posts)
9. From one Bev to another
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 07:46 PM
Mar 2023

That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking. I wouldn’t put anything past this reptile.

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