An antiabortion group seeking to block access to a widely used abortion pill asked a federal appeals court late Tuesday to allow a lower court’s ruling that would pull the medication off the market to proceed.
, was based on a “misguided assessment of the drug’s safety,” the Justice Department argued. Kacsmaryk’s ruling, the Justice Department said, “upended decades of reliance by blocking FDA’s approval of mifepristone and depriving patients of access to this safe and effective treatment.”The federal government and the drug’s manufacturer have asked the right-leaning U.S.
President Biden said if the ruling blocking access to the pill is allowed to stand, “there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks.”Medication-induced abortions typically use mifepristone in concert with a second medication, misoprostol. The former induces an abortion and the latter prompts contractions that expel the embryo or fetus.
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