Posted on 12/14/2020 3:26:46 AM PST by xomething
Regulations that protect women and unborn babies from a dangerous abortion drug will remain blocked after a federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump’s administration Wednesday.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, of Maryland, means abortion facilities may continue to send the abortion drug mifepristone to women in the mail, potentially without ever seeing them in person for a check-up or exam.
Mifepristone is used to abort unborn babies up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.
The AP reports Chaung suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules for the abortion drug in July after the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Civil Liberties Union and other pro-abortion groups sued. They argued that the FDA should halt its requirement that the drug be provided in person because it would protect women from potential exposure to the coronavirus at an abortion facility.
The Trump administration appealed the ruling, pointing to changes with the coronavirus situation, but Chaung rejected its arguments, according to the report.
“Accordingly, while the progress on vaccines and medical treatments for COVID-19 are cause for optimism and may advance the day that the Preliminary Injunction will no longer be warranted, the impact of these advances to date has not meaningfully altered the current health risks and obstacles to women seeking medication abortions,” the judge wrote.
He also refused to limit his order geographically, meaning it applies to the whole United States, the report continues. Chuang said the pandemic remains “uniformly dire across the nation.”
“Thus, at the present time, there is no meaningful basis by which to distinguish one state or region from others as uniquely free from the health risks, and thus the undue burden, imposed by the COVlD-19 pandemic,” he wrote.
The dangers of de-regulating the abortion drugs are serious, and the consequences are being seen in England. In March, the British government temporarily allowed the abortion drugs to be mail-ordered during the pandemic. By July, reports began to surface of women dying after taking the drugs. In another case, a woman who was 28-weeks pregnant allegedly received the abortion drugs in the mail and used them to abort her viable, late-term unborn baby past the legal abortion limit.
In the United States, mifepristone has been linked to at least 24 women’s deaths and 4,000 serious complications. Risks of mifepristone and misoprostol, the most common abortion drugs taken together to abort and then expel an unborn baby from the womb, include excessive bleeding, severe abdominal pain, infection and hemorrhage.
A 2009 study “Immediate Complications After Medical Compared With Surgical Termination of Pregnancy” in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology found a complication rate of approximately 20 percent for the abortion drugs compared to 5.6 percent for surgical abortions. Hemorrhages and incomplete abortions were among the most common complications.
Pro-abortion groups are not just aiming for a temporary suspension of the regulations either.
As National Review pointed out:
The plaintiffs insist that the COVID-19 outbreak is the reason for the suit, but in reality they are using the pandemic as cover to push for a policy they already wanted.It is difficult to imagine that such a policy, if enacted, actually would be reversed when the COVID-19 outbreak dissipates. It is far easier to imagine that, if the policy were enacted and later reversed, the ACLU would then sue the government a second time. In fact, the ACLU already has a separate lawsuit pending against the Health and Human Services Department pushing to remove the safety regulations entirely.
The abortion drugs are used up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, and the FDA recommends that they be provided in-person by a licensed medical professional. In-person exams are important for dating the pregnancy; the abortion drugs do not work well later in pregnancy and potentially could lead to more complications. Exams also can detect ectopic pregnancies, which can be deadly on their own but especially so if the woman takes the abortion drugs.
Even pro-abortion President Barack Obama did not entirely do away with the regulations for mifepristone. His administration did loosen the regulations by allowing the drug to be prescribed later in pregnancy and allowing non-doctors to provide it, but it kept other regulations in place to protect women’s safety.
Pro-life leaders have been urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to protect lives by keeping the safety regulations in place. They also have raised concerns about the abortion drugs being used for forced abortions. A Wisconsin man recently was accused of buying abortion drugs online and trying to force his girlfriend to take them.
The ACLU lawsuit is on behalf of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, New York State Academy of Family Physicians, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and a doctor.
While I don’t think President Trump should have the political power of a dictator, I do think he ought to have more political power than U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, of Maryland. But, apparently, President Trump has less power than anybody.
Exactly!!
Indeed. Look up!
The only power that will change this wicked mess is in our Bible and Declaration of Independence. We need to draw from the wisdom and act as a free people.
Why is it that these tyrants in black have no issues (repercussions) exceeding their authority by over-ruling Trump’s actions, but are afraid to take on real cases such as election fraud?
Funny how only Constitutional oriented individuals are being threatened against bringing “frivolous” election lawsuits,
Evil is surrounding us! And, coming at us at warp speed. Time has come.....
So where’s the constitional issue, you black-robed tyrant?
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Most of us have sung the song “God Bless America” for all of our lives. Many don’t even realize how much He has blessed our magnificent country from its inception, arguably more than any country on earth throughout history. And what have we done with it? Many glorious and wondrous things, for sure. But in the last 3 decades, we have slipped into a pattern that somehow we are entitled to that blessing. God HAS blessed us beyond belief. He raised us up to do the many world changing missions that He assigned to us. Now, we are in danger of losing His blessings by His Hand being removed from us, because we have become ungrateful and unbelieving. That is about to change, and very soon.
Agreed.
But in what context do you mean to say "that is about to change"?
a) We are about to be judged?
b) We are able to turn the tide and God relents in His immanent judgement?
c) Jesus returns in power and glory for all to see?
Oh, we have been judged.
And “He” is not coming any time soon.
We are on our own. And we are not doing so well.
“..Most of us have sung the song “God Bless America” for all of our lives. Many don’t even realize how much He has blessed our magnificent country from its inception, arguably more than any country on earth throughout history. And what have we done with it? Many glorious and wondrous things, for sure. But in the last 3 decades, we have slipped into a pattern that somehow we are entitled to that blessing. God HAS blessed us beyond belief. He raised us up to do the many world changing missions that He assigned to us. Now, we are in danger of losing His blessings by His Hand being removed from us, because we have become ungrateful and unbelieving. That is about to change, and very soon....”
THIS!
That’s why China wants ALL of our farmland and energy resources and will do absolutely anything to get it...including election interference, infiltration of our key corporations and even our very government itself.
With control of the original blessings of God to the USA, Satan can, and will, control the entire world simply by deciding who will eat and who will starve.
Without repentance, there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Judgement is knocking on the door....which will it be, America?
The President keeps trying....
...he doesn’t give up
Federal courts no longer have standing in America.
btt
If biden wins we will turn back to full term abortions, or post birth ones.
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