Concerns that Texas abortion ruling will upend FDA authority are ‘totally alarmist’: Sen. Cassidy

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Concerns that Texas abortion ruling will upend FDA authority are ‘totally alarmist’: Sen. Cassidy
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Sen. Cassidy dismisses concerns that the Texas judge’s recent abortion pill ruling will upend the FDA’s authority and have wider consequences on other drugs.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Sunday dismissed concerns that the Texas judge’s recent abortion pill ruling will upend the Food and Drug Administration’s authority and have wider consequences on other drugs.U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk

“Do you worry about the upending a status quo and sort of upending the FDA’s authority in a way that will be— create sort of chaos in the pharmaceutical industry?” Todd asked. "It can ignore it — it can ignore the Administrative Procedure Act, which every other agency has to follow theoretically, but they don’t have to? So, so I mean, I think that’s alarmist and I also think that the FDA should not be above the law," Cassidy added.

“I think Dobbs is the uncomfortable middle ground where people will confront that there’s a diversity of opinion and no one group has the ability to impose their will upon the other,” he said."And so Dobbs, I think, was the correct decision."“I don’t like a district court judge issuing a national decree,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on“Even if I agree with the judge. And what the judge held here is that the Federal Drug Administration didn’t follow their own rules.

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