BREAKING: A federal judge has halted FDA approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
A federal judge on Friday halted the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, delivering a blow to abortion rights advocates in the wake of the Supreme Court's dismantling of the constitutional right to abortion., U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said the FDA's two-decades old approval violated federal rules that allow for accelerated approval for certain drugs and subsequent actions by the agency ran afoul of federal law.
But it wasn't until last November, 22 years after the FDA's approval of the abortion pills, that a group of physicians and medical associations filed a lawsuit seeking to undo the agency's approval of mifepristone. The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court in Amarillo, where only one judge, Kacsmaryk, is assigned cases.
"Removing access to mifepristone would cause worse health outcomes for patients who rely on the availability of mifepristone to safely and effectively terminate their pregnancies," the FDA told the court, adding that the"sudden absence" of medication abortion would likely impose"real and significant harms" to patients choosing to take abortion pills out of medical necessity, for privacy or to avoid further trauma.
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