Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday described fears by Democrats that a court ruling against the abortion pill mifepristone could uproot the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of other drugs as vastly exaggerated.
“I think that’s totally alarmist,” the Louisiana Republican and former physician said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I also think that the FDA should not be above the law.”
A federal appeals court last week partially blocked a ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas that suspended the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. Judge Kacsmaryk ruled that the court “does not second-guess FDA’s decision-making lightly” but that the “FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns — in violation of its statutory duty — based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions.
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