Kacsmaryk's unhinged opinion even promoted 'fetal personhood,' the most extreme goal of the anti-abortion movement.
that women should be forced to carry a fetus to term even if has a lethal condition that will ensure its own demise and potentially endanger the mother. This is one of Kacsmaryk’s leading authorities. There’s more: Kacsmaryk didn’t just revoke the 2000 approval, he overturned multiple changes to mifepristone access since, including those that reduced barriers to the drug and one that allowed it to be prescribed through the mail.
to allow actual, legal medication to be mailed even if it terminates a pregnancy. Kacsmaryk’s new interpretation would threaten the nationwide transport of mifepristone even if a higher court overturns his suspension of the 2000 approval.In truth, the reasoning goes beyond that. Through the combination of Comstock Act enforcement and fetal personhood, the Kacsmaryk is laying the groundwork foron abortion imposed through the courts.
Just after Kacsmaryk dropped this bomb, Judge Thomas O. Rice, a Barack Obama appointee in Washington State, issued a clashing decision ordering the FDA to continue providing mifepristone in the 18 jurisdictions that brought the lawsuit. Rice concluded that the FDA’s current restrictions on accessibility of the drug, which, from a scientific standpoint, is obviously correct: The remaining obstacles, mainly complex certification requirements for pharmacies,to doctors or patients.
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