A ruling by a Texas judge has halted the distribution of a safe and effective abortion pill. It is the latest judicial assault on reproductive rights since the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade ruling that guaranteed a woman's right to an abortion.
A Texas judge has issued a judgment that halt the distribution of a safe abortion pill.US President Joe Biden said his administration will fight the ruling.
But, in an illustration of how deep the fracture on abortion runs in US society, a judge in Washington state moments later ruled in a separate case that access to the drug must be preserved in more than a dozen states.The duelling legal opinions, as well as an immediate vow by the US Department of Justice to appeal the Texas ruling, means the issue is almost certain to end up before the Supreme Court.
The president of the powerful American Medical Association, Jack Resneck, said that allowing judges to interfere in "extensive, evidence-based, scientific review of ... well-established FDA processes is reckless and dangerous." Kacsmaryk's ruling came after a coalition of anti-abortion groups sued to freeze the national distribution of mifepristone.
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