A federal judge in Texas issued a highly-controversial rule Friday to invalidate the FDA’s two-decade-old approval of an abortion pill called mifepristone.
gave the federal government seven days to appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The lawsuit was filed in August in Amarillo, Texas, by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — a conservative legal advocacy organization. The group claimed that the FDA failed to follow proper protocols and review evidence when it approved mifepristone 23 years ago, and that it ignored the drug’s safety risks ever since.
The FDA-approved abortion method in the U.S. includes the use of mifepristone for pregnancy up to 10 weeks. Taken along with another pill called misoprostol, the two-drug regimen is referred to as the “abortion pill.” The two pills taken together are the gold standard for medication abortion amongst the medical community.
That new policy allows patients to get prescriptions via consultations over the phone, and order pills through the mail, depending on the state. Meaning, people living in states with strict abortion bans, can still receive prescriptions and order pills from other states, regardless of their state’s restrictions.
Kacsmaryk was appointed in 2019 by then-U. S. President Donald Trump. He had previously worked as an attorney for a Christian legal group and written an opinion piece criticizing Roe v. Wade, gay marriages, and premarital affairs in 2015.
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