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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 thats been on the market for two decades. But the details of the hearing werent publicly available until Friday night, when a transcript was finally released to the media.
According to the transcript, Kacsmaryka conservative Trump appointee with ties to the anti-abortion industryseemed 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 FDAs approval of the drug). The FDAs 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, its also safer than carrying a pregnancy to term. If Kacsmaryk issues an injunction toat least temporarilyban 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
WarGamer
(12,103 posts)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)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!)
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)roamer65
(36,739 posts)Fuck the son of a ..
Bev54
(9,957 posts)in2herbs
(2,942 posts)is set to be release on Tuesday and he wants to deflect because K is one of his appointees. Wouldn't surprise me.
Bev54
(9,957 posts)PlanetBev
(4,098 posts)Thats exactly what Ive been thinking. I wouldnt put anything past this reptile.