Posted on 04/08/2023 7:55:09 AM PDT by Morgana
A federal judge has issued a ruling that will stop the sales of abortion drugs nationwide and possibly save hundreds of thousands or even millions of babies from abortions.
The abortion drug mifepristone is used for more than half of all abortions in the U.S. every year, or hundreds of thousands of unborn babies, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.
But a new lawsuit, filed by a group of doctors with the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, challenges the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval and later expansion of the deadly drug under the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations. Represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, the doctors point to evidence that the FDA ignored safety problems and failed to properly study the risks of mifepristone.
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas issued a ruling blocking approval of the dangerous abortion pill.
Kacsmaryk issued a ruling in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA that halts Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone. The Court provides seven days before this order will go into effect to allow the federal government time to appeal to the Fifth Circuit. This evening the Biden Administration filed its notice of appeal.
Separately, a district court judge, Judge Thomas O. Rice, issued a ruling in the State of Washington v. FDA that preliminarily enjoins the FDA from “altering the status quo and rights as it relates to the availability of Mifepristone under the current operative January 2023 Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy under 21 U.S.C. § 355-1 in Plaintiff States.” In his decision, Judge Kacsmaryk noted the following:
Over twenty years ago, the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved chemical abortion (“2000 Approval”). The legality of the 2000 Approval is now before this Court. Why did it take two decades for judicial review in federal court? After all, Plaintiffs’ petitions challenging the 2000 Approval date back to the year 2002, right? Simply put, FDA stonewalled judicial review — until now. Before Plaintiffs filed this case, FDA ignored their petitions for over sixteen years, even though the law requires an agency response within “180 days of receipt of the petition.” (pg. 1) Most readers would not define pregnancy to be a serious or life-threatening illness. Even FDA does not earnestly defend that position. True, complications can arise during pregnancy, and said complications can be serious or life-threatening. But that does not make pregnancy itself an illness. (pg. 44) One study revealed the overall incidence of adverse events is “fourfold higher” in chemical abortions when compared to surgical abortions. Women who underwent chemical abortions also experienced far higher rates of hemorrhaging, incomplete abortion, and unplanned surgical evacuation. (pg. 45) Contrary to popular belief and talking points, the evidence shows chemical abortion is not “as easy as taking Advil.” Compelling evidence suggests the statistics provided by FDA on the adverse effects of chemical abortion understate the negative impact the chemical abortion regimen has on women and girls. When women seek emergency care after receiving the chemical abortion pills, the abortionist that prescribed the drugs is usually not the provider to manage the mother’s complications. Consequently, the treating physician may not know the adverse event is due to mifepristone. Studies support this conclusion by finding over sixty percent of women and girls’ emergency room visits after chemical abortions are miscoded as “miscarriages” rather than adverse effects to mifepristone. Simply put, FDA’s data are incomplete and potentially misleading, as are the statistics touted by mifepristone advocates. (pg. 47) The Court does not second-guess FDA’s decision-making lightly. But here, FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns — in violation of its statutory duty — based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions. There is also evidence indicating FDA faced significant political pressure to forego its proposed safety precautions to better advance the political objective of increased “access” to chemical abortion — which was the “whole idea of mifepristone.” (pg. 57)
The Texas judge ruled that the FDA cannot allow chemical abortion to be prescribed via telemedicine or without an in-person doctor’s visit, while the Washington judge ruled that the FDA must continue providing the abortion pill in accordance with the Biden-era rule changes
While the ruling in the Washington case technically only applies to 12 states, it still stands in direct conflict with the Texas ruling. With two rulings that directly contradict with each other, it is certain that this issue will be resolved by the United States Supreme Court, which just last summer overturned Roe v. Wade.
“This decision shines a light on something that the Biden Administration wants to sweep under the rug – that these drugs do not treat or cure disease but kill unborn children and expose their mothers to dangerous side effects. The FDA should be in the business of ensuring safety, not in taking lives,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life.
Tobias continued, “The abortion industry has pushed for lowering protections for women undergoing a chemical abortion, while it peddles lies about the ease of the method.”
Mifepristone is used in combination with misoprostol, a prostaglandin, to cause an abortion. Mifepristone blocks progesterone, leading to the death of the unborn baby, while the second drug, misoprostol, causes powerful, painful uterine contractions to expel the dead or dying baby.
The FDA recently weakened the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) requirements for the drug to allow it to be dispensed and even mailed by pharmacies.
“Promoters of these pills like to trumpet high safety rates, but neglect to mention how that with hundreds of thousands of women taking these pills, even a couple of percentage points of women hemorrhaging, dealing with infections, and ectopic pregnancy, represents thousands of women desperately seeking treatment, which may or may not be nearby,” said Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., director of Education and Research for National Right to Life.
First approved under the Clinton administration, mifepristone is used to abort unborn babies up to about 10 weeks of pregnancy – although some abortionists use it later. It works by blocking the hormone progesterone and basically starving the unborn baby to death. Typically, abortion groups also prescribe a second drug, misoprostol, to induce labor and expel the baby’s body.
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the pro-abortion movement has been pushing abortion drugs even more heavily, and some groups send the drugs to women in pro-life states illegally.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has been trying to expand the life-destroying drugs even further, first by allowing abortion drugs to be sold through the mail without any direct medical supervision, and, more recently, by allowing pharmacies like Walgreens, CVS and RiteAid to sell them.
In California, public colleges and universities also are required to provide abortion drugs for free on campus, and other Democrat-run states are considering similar mandates.
Along with millions of unborn babies’ deaths, the FDA has linked mifepristone to at least 28 women’s deaths and 4,000 serious complications. However, under President Barack Obama, the FDA stopped requiring that non-fatal complications from mifepristone be reported. So the numbers almost certainly are much higher.
Studies indicate the risks of the abortion drug are more common than what abortion activists often claim, with as many as one in 17 women requiring hospital treatment. A recent study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the rate of abortion-related emergency room visits by women taking the abortion drug increased more than 500 percent between 2002 and 2015.
Another new study from the University of Toronto, “Short-Term Adverse Outcomes After Mifepristone–Misoprostol Versus Procedural Induced Abortion,” published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that one in ten women who took the abortion pill had to go to the emergency room, according to Pregnancy Help News.
I think our side needs to do a better job of pointing out that the abortion pill this is talking about is totally different than the morning after pill.
The morning after pill only works in the first 5 days and is meant to prevent pregnancy
The abortion pill works for 70 days and is meant to induce a medical abortion and terminate a pregnancy
Birth Control pills are cheap & over the counter.
Too lazy to pay attention & use a condom?
Too stupid to take care of yourself???
NO SYMPATHY from me.
BUT stop getting pregnant-—IT isn’t that hard.
Don’t want ANY kids ever? Get your tubes tied.
Bttt
This one is also one of two pills used in conjuction. Without this pill such abortions will probably be more risky.
That said, that the FDA was corrupted into approving this without necessary safety studies, or at least legitimate ones, is sorta their SOP.
In other words, to kill a baby. No need for euphemisms. That is how the other side sells abortion. The time for clinical soft talk is over.
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Just tell the protesters “Trust the Science”.
What depraved and sick society America has become...
That’s one killer pill
people used to go to jail for murder. The devil has won too many hearts and turned them black. he has turned this world upside down and made murder fashionable and a badge of courage!
I don’t know if anybody’s ever seen “justpearlythoughts” on YouTube it’s a conversation that is moderated. The women are quite frank on their lifestyle choices and what their expectations are after they sow their wild oats.
The man usually disagree and basically have been totally turned off by modern womanhood (as opposed to traditional womanhood), and the men are not about to submit to a woman who has taken on a modern sexual bender, and seek to manage modern women’s expectations in that modern men are not willing to participate in sham matrimony.
It’s very revealing and the moderator is very good at what she presents and her take on modern women who are leading themselves down a path to nowhere and what they should expect in their failed attempts to catch a male after their sexual/party allure diminishes.
Here is the stark difference in the rulings (besides the pro life v pro death aspect.) The Texas ruling tells the FDA what they must do as part of FDA’s statutory and regulatory duty as as currently required. The Washington ruling is telling FDA they must ignore any such concerns arising from that very duty. The whole purpose of FDA is supposed to be a duty to review, approve, regulate, police, and possibly take action regarding the safety of drugs. To tell them they shall not change whether a drug is available goes against that principle.
Honestly I think if one of the two sides took a more moderate view instead of the extreme views they would actually win a ton of votes.
The issue is the right sees all abortion as murder. But they also used to think using a condom was murder as well. Or at least sinful and illegal.
The left believes the other extreme...abortion up to delivery and even then on some cases after.
Chemical abortion prevents the fertilized egg from attaching to the Uterus. It’s definitely better than waiting until after the egg attaches and the baby starts to form an nervous system.
As I mentioned earlier there are two different abortion medications
The morning after pill - which does what you say and simply prevents pregnancy
(I believe most people, including a lot of conservative support this one)
and the abortion pill being discussed in the news now, which kills an unborn baby up to 70 days after development.
(I believe most people who are against abortion would not approve of this, since it results in the death of a baby)
But it is my belief that people are confusing these two entirely different things in the recent news coverage of the abortion pill.
Serious question. Why don’t most people have a funeral for a miscarriage if they consider the abortion pill murder?
See that’s what I’m saying...both sides are not consistent with their rhetoric.
I can assure you many tears are shed when a woman has a miscarriage. But often there is not much to “bury”, just a heavy flow
“Too stupid to take care of yourself???
NO SYMPATHY from me.”
Comments like this lose the argument for us. Liberals are going to say, 15 year old girl gets raped, and conservatives think she is stupid and deserves no sympathy because she should have had a condom for her rapist.
Get some empathy or there is 100% chance we will get abortion legalized at the federal level next time Dems win the senate. You have to win hearts and minds on this issue.
I watched some of it, wow, talk about delusional women. Godlessness seems to have left them with half a brain.
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