As Americans digested a Texas judge’s ruling on Friday night invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone — and a contradictory ruling from a judge in Washington state ordering the FDA to maintain its approval as is in some states — the divide in political reactions was as much between words and silence as it was between pro- and anti-abortion rights. National Democratic officials reacted with a torrent of statements condemning the Texas judge, Matth
Protesters gather in support of women’s right to access the abortion medication, mifepristone in Amarillo, Texas, Feb. 11, 2023.
Many Democratic and abortion-rights leaders made it clear that the Texas ruling had not, for the time being, cut off women’s access to the medication. But they also used the moment to denounce Republicans — a recognition that Democrats have won recent elections by tapping into voters’ fury over the loss of abortion rights.Republican officials were relatively quiet on the rulings Friday night, and talked about almost anything else on social media: transgender athletes, China, fentanyl and Israel.
“The Extreme MAGA Republican assault on abortion care is spreading across America like a malignant tumor,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the House minority leader, wrote on Twitter. Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, which opposes abortion, called the ruling “a major step forward for women and girls whose health and safety have been jeopardized for decades by the FDA’s rushed, flawed and politicized approval of these dangerous drugs.”Katie Glenn, state policy director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, similarly called the ruling “a win for the health and safety of women and girls.” She called the Washington case “concerning.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch of Mississippi, who led a coalition of Republican attorneys general who wrote a brief supporting the Texas lawsuit, praised the ruling in a Twitter post. Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, a Democrat, offered a specific plan earlier this week. On Tuesday — with Kacsmaryk’s ruling expected any day — he announced that his state had purchased 30,000 doses of mifepristone in what he called an “insurance policy.”
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