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Texas judge halts FDA approval of abortion pill mifepristone

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OKgrannie said:
No surprise, but still wrong.

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Access to widely used abortion pill in limbo after competing federal court rulings

For now, the drug the FDA approved in 2000 appears to remain at least immediately available in the wake of two separate rulings that were issued just minutes apart by federal judges in Texas and Washington.
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Yeah, the problem with this story is the misleading headline. The judge can't 'halt' the approval, the drug was approved 20someodd years ago, this judge wants to over-ride the approval.
 
OKgrannie said:
No surprise, but still wrong.

www.adn.com

Access to widely used abortion pill in limbo after competing federal court rulings

For now, the drug the FDA approved in 2000 appears to remain at least immediately available in the wake of two separate rulings that were issued just minutes apart by federal judges in Texas and Washington.
www.adn.com www.adn.com
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The situation is more complex than this news. In Texas, a district judge ordered the FDA to halt its approval of mifepristone, giving it seven days to appeal, while in Washington, a district judge ordered the FDA not to halt its approval of the drug.

The Texas case is just a Texas case, while apparently 12 Democratic states collaborated in the Washington case. The decisions were issued on the same day by judges on equivalent levels of authority, one appointed by Trump and the other appointed by Obama.

You can find articles on our thoroughly partisan judicial systems in both liberal and conservative sources.

www.opb.org

Dueling federal rulings leave abortion drug access in limbo, as Oregon, Washington prepare to fight back

Despite today's federal ruling by a Texas judge halting FDA approval of abortion drug mifepristone, in a handful of states including Oregon and Washington, a second federal suit may still affect the drug's availability.
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So much for Alito's bizarre dream of ending the abortion fight by sending the issue back to the states. This probably has to end up back at the SC.
 
choiceone said:
The situation is more complex than this news. In Texas, a district judge ordered the FDA to halt its approval of mifepristone, giving it seven days to appeal, while in Washington, a district judge ordered the FDA not to halt its approval of the drug.

The Texas case is just a Texas case, while apparently 12 Democratic states collaborated in the Washington case. The decisions were issued on the same day by judges on equivalent levels of authority, one appointed by Trump and the other appointed by Obama.

You can find articles on our thoroughly partisan judicial systems in both liberal and conservative sources.

www.opb.org

Dueling federal rulings leave abortion drug access in limbo, as Oregon, Washington prepare to fight back

Despite today's federal ruling by a Texas judge halting FDA approval of abortion drug mifepristone, in a handful of states including Oregon and Washington, a second federal suit may still affect the drug's availability.
www.opb.org

So much for Alito's bizarre dream of ending the abortion fight by sending the issue back to the states. This probably has to end up back at the SC.
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They're hoping it ends up back at the Scotus desk. Guy who they'll side with?

This is not politics. These Republicans are fighting us, it's their civil war. If it were politics they'd know this behavior will strip them of more votes. That's not on the menu. Suffering under their hands is what they're serving now.
 
Ginger Ale said:
They're hoping it ends up back at the Scotus desk. Guy who they'll side with?

This is not politics. These Republicans are fighting us, it's their civil war. If it were politics they'd know this behavior will strip them of more votes.
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Ann Coulter flips on abortion.

The Abortion Ban Backlash Is Starting to Freak Out Republicans​

Last May, when the Supreme Court’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked, [Ann] Coulter assured her readers that the end of Roe wouldn’t help Democrats. “Outside of the media, no one seems especially bothered by the decision,” she wrote.

[April 4, 2023] Ann Coulter tweeted, “The demand for anti-abortion legislation just cost Republicans another crucial race,” and added, “Please stop pushing strict limits on abortion, or there will be no Republicans left.”



www.nytimes.com

Opinion | The Abortion Ban Backlash Is Starting to Freak Out Republicans

But their voters won’t let them pivot to moderation.
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Republicans losing their minds:

In the last Congress, 167 House Republicans co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, conferring full personhood rights on fertilized eggs.

Last year, Idaho’s Republican Party defeated an amendment to the party’s platform allowing for an exception to the state’s abortion ban to save a woman’s life. In the weeks before the Wisconsin election on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers introduced a bill providing some narrow exceptions to the state’s abortion prohibition for cases of rape, incest and grave threats to a pregnant person’s health, but they lacked the votes in their own party to pass it.


Ginger Ale said:
That's not on the menu. Suffering under their hands is what they're serving now.
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Dobbs was the republican party shooting itself in the foot. It now has a bullseye on the other foot.
 
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