Today, the Supreme Court stayed a decision that would have undermined FDA’s medical judgment and put women’s health at risk.
As a result, mifepristone, an FDA-approved drug for medication abortion, remains available and approved.
— President Biden (@POTUS) April 21, 2023
BREAKING: The Supreme Court of the United States has just stayed the order which banned the abortion drug mifepristone. There will NOT be a federal ban.
Clarence Thomas and Samual Alito were the ones to dissent, unsurprisingly.
This is a short term win. The GOP will continue… pic.twitter.com/lyRAtob0hm
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 21, 2023
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of preserving access to the abortion pill mifepristone for now after a federal judge in Texas gutted the FDA’s longtime approval of the drug.@LauraAJarrett and @PeterAlexander report the latest. pic.twitter.com/MeisSOETmI
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) April 21, 2023
Yeah, great job with that court, Trump.
Ah well.
At least you pulled off the NFTs.
That was the real accomplishment of the Trump era.
The abortion drug mifepristone will remain available nationwide after the Supreme Court stayed a Texas federal judge’s ruling striking down the FDA’s two-decade-old approval of the medication.
The high court had until 11:59 p.m. Friday to decide whether to keep the ruling by US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in place while challenges to the drug made their way through the lower courts.
The Biden administration and New York-based drug manufacturer Danco Laboratories had asked the justices to intervene and stay the Texas judge’s ruling
Mifepristone is used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, in more than half of all abortions in the US. The FDA approved its use in 2000.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas indicated they would have allowed Kacsmaryk’s order to remain in effect while litigation continues.
The court’s action likely means that access to mifepristone will be unchanged at least into next year, as appeals play out, including a potential appeal to the high court.
Alito, who authored last year’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, had issued a temporary stay of Kacsmaryk’s ruling last week, which was extended an additional two days on Wednesday.
President Biden on Friday reacted to the court’s stay by declaring that he stands by the “FDA’s evidence-based approval” of the drug.
To be clear, this is a drug that kills babies.
I’m old enough to remember when this was considered bad. Because the Canaanites and the Aztecs and so on did it.
Now, women want to kill their own babies.
Because that gives them more sexual options.
And the entire existence of a woman is around sex.