Some Democrats are calling on the Biden administration to ignore a federal judge’s ruling to halt the approval of an abortion pill, prompting criticism from w/in their own party who say public defiance could undermine efforts to appeal the decision.
A handful of Democrats, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounced the decision to halt the FDA’s approval of mifepristone until a lawsuit challenging the safety of the pill can be resolved, effectively banning the sale of the abortion pill across the country. Instead, Ocasio-Cortez called on President Joe Biden to defy the federal judge and not enforce his ruling.
The ban on mifepristone is not set to take effect for another week, giving higher courts time to consider the Biden administration’s appeal. The Biden administration announced on Friday it would appeal the decision, but that didn’t stop Democrats such as Ocasio-Cortez from calling on the president to do more.
"There is no way this decision has a basis in law,” Wyden said in a statement. “It is instead rooted in conservatives' dangerous and undemocratic takeover of our country's institutions.” Shortly after the Texas decision, a federal judge in Washington State issued a conflicting order that would block the FDA from restricting access to the pills in roughly a dozen blue states that initially filed the lawsuit. That ruling clashes with the Texas decision, making it more likely that the issue could be brought to the Supreme Court.
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