Dozens of Republican and Democratic attorneys general filed competing arguments on Friday in a heated Texas lawsuit that seeks to reverse the FDA’s approval of abortion pills, the most common method to terminate pregnancy in the U.S.
The lawsuit was filed in November by conservative group Alliance Defending Freedom in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. It argues that the FDA lacked the authority to approve mifepristone and did not thoroughly study the medication, while claiming that the drug is unsafe.
. He could rule as early as next week. An appeal would go to the right-leaning Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and could eventually present the Supreme Court with another major abortion case less than a year after it upendedArguing for the Democratic attorneys general, James in a statement said that “decades of medical and clinical research have proven that medication abortion is safe.”
“Blocking access to this safe and effective medication is a dangerous attack on reproductive freedom and public health,” James said. “Access to safe reproductive health care could be in jeopardy for millions of Americans because of a baseless lawsuit.”On the Republican side, Fitch stated that the FDA is defying federal and state laws in its decision to allow access to the drug.
“In the Dobbs case, the Supreme Court affirmed that states may enact laws that protect unborn life, women’s health and the integrity of the medical profession, and we will not allow the Biden administration to trample on this fundamental constitutional building block,” Fitch said.
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