A federal judge in Texas heard arguments but did not rule Wednesday on whether to block the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a pregnancy-termination drug, a case viewed as the most significant legal battleground on abortion since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
“We won’t let them take away our rights,” said the Women’s March in a statement. “We’re going to shine a light on these bad actors. All eyes on Amarillo.”
“Judge Kacsmaryk and the ADF were already making a mockery of our nation’s judicial system with this case challenging a pill that has been safely used publicly available for more than two decades — but the latest news that they are trying to do so out of the public eye is a new low even for them,” said UltraViolent co-founder and Executive Director Shaunna Thomas.
The lawsuit declared that “pregnancy is not an illness,” meaning that the FDA should not have approved mifepristone under the accelerated protocol. The FDA has countered that its regulations describe pregnancy as a “medical condition” that can put the patient’s health or life at risk. “Does this powerful drug impact adolescent development? Future fertility? No one knows, because the FDA never bothered to perform focused studies on girls under 18,” she said in a Wednesday statement.
The abortion pill has become the fallback in states with tight abortion restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe last June, moving the debate from Planned Parenthood clinics to the nation’s drugstores and post offices.
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