Experts highlighted examples of the unprecedented nature of Judge Kacsmaryk's ruling on abortion pills, including his politicized language and nod to the idea of fetal personhood.
The ruling, issued Friday, is set to go into effect at the end of this week unless a higher court intervenes. The Justice DepartmentIn interviews, several legal and medical experts said Kacsmaryk’s decision was unprecedented and clearly ideological. His language and reasoning, they said, closely mirrored arguments and concepts put forward by the anti-abortion movement — at the expense of scientific consensus in some instances.
In his ruling Friday, Kacsmaryk used various terms closely associated with the anti-abortion movement, according to the experts who were interviewed. Notably, Kacsmaryk referred to the two-pill regimen that is the most common way to terminate a pregnancy in the U.S. as"chemical abortion," rather than"medication abortion." The plaintiffs in the suit, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, use the same term in their filings and messaging.
Villavicencio characterized"chemical abortion" as an"emotive" term meant to inspire fear about the risks of ending a pregnancy.Kacsmaryk wrote that mifepristone"blocks the hormone progesterone, halts nutrition, and ultimately starves the unborn human until death." Kacsmaryk’s language implies a belief about when life begins — a question that continues to roil American society. Medical experts generally recognize around 24 weeks’ gestation as the point at which a fetus is able to survive outside the womb.
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