The U.S. Supreme Court refused to restrict nationwide access to mifepristone.
Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Women's Reproductive Clinic of New Mexico in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, January 13, 2023.While experts and advocacy groups applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday to not restrict nationwide access to
Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023.Ramachandran called the Supreme Court decision "a relief." "Although the Court refused to allow these particular people to bring this case, anti-abortion politicians are waiting in the wings to attempt to continue pushing this case before an extremist judge in Texas in an effort to deny people access to medication abortion care," Jennifer Dalven, director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said in a statement.
"A number of us have been watching these court cases, and have been worried about the idea that judges -- without clinical or technical expertise -- would be weighing in on the scientific decisions that are being made by the FDA," said Ramachandran, who is also the chair of Doctors for America's task force on FDA policy."It's a very lengthy process to be able to get drug approval.
The FDA went "above and beyond in terms of regulatory standards approval for mifepristone," because of the politicization of abortion care and the anticipation that there would be a number of different stakeholders looking at the drug, Ramachandran said. Had the Supreme Court ruled differently it could have been "catastrophic" for drug development and regulation in the U.S., Dhruva said."It could have potentially cast out on the FDA being the determinant of what drugs meet the safety and effectiveness threshold to be on the United States market," Dhruva said.
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