The US Supreme Court on Friday protected access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower-court rulings that placed restrictions on its usage as appeals play out.
The Supreme Court on Friday protected access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower-court rulings that placed restrictions on its usage as appeals play out.
The case is the most important abortion-related dispute to reach the high court since the justices overturned Roe v. Wade, triggering conservative states across the country to either ban or severely restrict the procedure. How the dispute over medication abortion is ultimately resolved could make it more difficult for women to obtain abortion, even in the states that still allow it.
Biden also urged Americans"to use their vote as their voice, and elect a Congress who will pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v Wade." Alito wrote that the stay would not"remove mifepristone from the market" but would have simply restored"the circumstances that existed" from the time the drug was approved in 2000 to when the FDA passed new regulations to ease access to the pill starting in 2016.
"Today's Supreme Court ruling keeps mifepristone lawful and available," the company's CEO Evan Masingill said in a statement responding to Friday night's order."GenBioPro is continuing to serve its customers and is committed to providing our evidence-based, essential medication to all who need it." Rejecting the consensus of the medical community, Kacsmaryk raised questions about the safety of the drug, peppering his opinion with jargon that is often used by opponents of abortion. He labeled doctors who perform the procedure"abortionists" and explained that he would reject the term"fetus" in favor of the more inflammatory"unborn human.
Stunned by the breadth of the decision, the Biden administration and Danco, a manufacturer of the drug, filed an appeal with the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The 5th Circuit claimed that the FDA's rules for the drug created"an exceedingly unusual regime," and that the anti-abortion doctors had the right to sue over it because they would"necessarily be injured by the consequences" of the FDA's decision"to cut out doctors from the prescription and administration of mifepristone."
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