A coalition led by the anti-abortion rights group Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a lawsuit to force mifepristone, a drug commonly used to induce abortion, off the market — and a Trump-appointed judge in Texas is handling the case.
with the religious right, including work as an attorney with a conservative Christian legal group based in the state., says Elizabeth Sepper, a University of Texas at Austin law professor.
"The way the district courts in Texas dole out cases makes it so that there are a few places where you pretty much know which judge you're going to get," Sepper says."So they know they have a very sympathetic ear." Any appeals in the case would go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit – widely known asIf Judge Kacsmaryk sides with the anti-abortion group, mifepristone would have to be pulled from the market, at least temporarily. The FDA could choose to restart the approval process, which could take years.
Jenny Ma stresses that because this is a federal case, the impact could be felt nationwide, not only in states with abortion bans., it almost seemed like there were two Americas – where abortion access was allowed in some states and not in others," Ma says."This would amount to a nationwide ban on medication abortion, and patients who seek this care would not be able to get this care from any pharmacy, or any prescriber or any provider."Copyright 2023 NPR.
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