Access to mifepristone in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the abortion medication.
PUBLISHED 6:02 PM CT Apr. 07, 2023Federal judges in Texas and Washington on Friday issued conflicting rulings within minutes of one another regarding federal approval of the abortion medication mifepristone.
For now, the drug that the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 remains at least immediately available in wake of the separate rulings But that decision was quickly followed by U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, an Obama appointee, essentially ordering the opposite and directing U.S. authorities to not make any changes that would restrict access to the drug.
The abortion drug has been widely used in the U.S. since 2000 and there is essentially no precedent for a lone judge overruling the medical decisions of the Food and Drug Administration. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used for medication abortion in the United States, along with misoprostol, which is also used to treat other medical conditions.
The lawsuit was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was also involved in the Mississippi case that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned. At the core of the lawsuit is the allegation that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone was flawed because it did not adequately review its safety risks.
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