Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday addressed a controversial ruling that rescinded the FDA's approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S.
Los Angeles leaders sounded off on the abortion pill ruling that rescinded the FDA's approval of the mifepristoneon Monday addressed a controversial ruling that rescinded the FDA's approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S.
"This Texas decision is a disgrace. It has no immediate impact on abortion and reproductive health services here in LA County," said Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell.Mifepristone was approved by the FDA more than twenty years ago."What the judge did was suspend the approval of mifepristone and implement a preliminary injunction that applies nationwide. He also paused that preliminary injunction for a week, allowing the Department of Justice and others to appeal.
The whiplash of the conflicting decisions is likely to put the issue on an accelerated path to the Supreme Court. The abortion drug has been widely used in the U.S. since securing FDA approval and there is essentially no precedent for a lone judge overruling the medical decisions of the Food and Drug Administration. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used forin the United States, along with misoprostol, which is also used to treat other medical conditions.
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