The FDA's 23-year approval of the abortion drug, mifepristone, could be vacated in a Texas case arguing the agency improperly fast-tracked the drug for the market in 2000.
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier on mifepristone-induced abortions and new clearance that would allow the drug to be sold at pharmacies.
A pro-life medical group is suing the Food and Drug Administration to overturn its 20-year-old approval of abortion drug mifepristone – just months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.last November arguing the drug was improperly fast-tracked in 2000 by categorizing pregnancy as"an illness."
Now, legal experts are at odds over whether a law from the 1800s will come into play given the Biden administration's decision to allow the drug to continue to be shipped via email, as some believe the case can be headed all the way to the Supreme Court. "They really did fast-track the approval of mifepristone," Sarah Parshall Perry, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital.
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