Posted on 04/21/2023 3:57:28 PM PDT by Coronal
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday granted a request from the Justice Department to leave in place the Food and Drug Administration's approval of a widely used abortion pill, preserving access to the drug and reinstating a number of steps by the agency that made it easier to obtain while legal proceedings continue.
The decision from the conservative court came in the most significant case involving abortion since it overturned Roe v. Wade less than one year ago, a ruling that threw the legal landscape into chaos and led to near-total bans on abortion in more than 12 states. In addition to granting the Justice Department's request for emergency relief, the Supreme Court also approved a similar request from Danco Laboratories, the maker of the abortion drug mifepristone.
Justice Clarence Thomas said he would have denied the emergency applications, and Justice Samuel Alito dissented from the decision, writing that neither the Justice Department nor Danco have shown they are likely to suffer irreparable harm while the appeals process plays out. Alito authored the majority opinion reversing Roe.
The Biden administration and Danco turned to the Supreme Court in the legal battle over mifepristone after a federal judge in Texas suspended the FDA's 23-year-old approval of the drug on April 7, which would have disrupted access to the medication nationwide, including in states where abortion is legal.
"The district court countermanded a scientific judgment FDA has maintained across five administrations; nullified the approval of a drug that has been safely used by millions of Americans over more than two decades; and upset reliance interests in a healthcare system that depends on the availability of mifepristone as an alternative to surgical abortion for women who choose to lawfully terminate their early pregnancies," the Justice Department wrote to the court.
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A legally correct decision.
The judge in Amarillo was way out of his lane, and the lane of the courts.
Some folks here don’t see it that way. Anything goes in the name of fighting abortion.
True. You are correct on that matter
“Anti-abortion group blasts Trump over federal ban comments”
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-abortion-2024-president-81373a7c8523db24f928d713ff90aa31
This issue falls under the states not the feds.
“The decision from the conservative court..”
I get so tired of hearing this propaganda from the corrupt media. This court hat two conservatives, three radical leftists and four wishy washy justices. That does not a conservative court make.
Religion, basically.
>This issue falls under the states not the feds.
Abortion would generally be a state issue as the US Constitution, contrary to Roe, is slient on the issue. However one of the attacks on the abortion pills, I’m not sure whether it is this one, does involve a federal issue. An 19th century federal law forbids the use of the US Mail (which use is a Federal issue specifically discussed in the US Constitution) as a delivery mechanism for any abortificient. And Biden administration’s strategy to get around red states blocking abortion services is to deliver the pills via US mail. Congress certainly has the right and power to regulate what goes in US mail, so although it could change the law to allow such it also is permitted to block it. SCOTUS should allow whichever course we choose.
The Texas case involves FDA approval of one of the drugs used in medical abortions. That’s a federal matter. There’s also another case in another state which ruled the opposite way of this one. Resolution of such situations ends up going to the Feds.
I know, but I believe the states can ban its use or not.
I agree but congress will not do anything, one of the states will ban its use and back to the court it will go
The losses keep piling up.
On what basis? Bear in mind that it has other uses.
SCOTUS is reluctant to make a new law on abortion issue.
They shoved it off to states to decide.
My other point is pro-life people are helping democrats because majority of younger women are pro-chouce. Evidence is higher than normal came out to vote last midterms, causing red wave to fizzle.
ru-486 aka mifepristone AKA the morning after pill
Bet it Roberts, he’s the worst.
It’s also used for treatment of Cushing’s syndrome, as well as uterine fibroids and endometriosis.
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