The Texas Abortion-Pill Ruling Signals Pro-Lifers’ Next Push

The chaos unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s of was underscored on Friday when federal judges released dueling opinions on mifepristone, a pill of abortions in the United States. In a suit by 17 progressive states and the District of Columbia, Judge Thomas O. Rice of the Eastern District of Washington State the FDA to preserve access to mifepristone. In a competing ruling from Texas, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk held that the FDA lacked the authority to approve mifepristone , more than 20 years ago. Kacsmaryk’s ruling, which will go into effect after seven days pending an appeal, marks the first time that a court has suspended approval of an FDA-approved medication that