Those barriers remained in place for more than 20 years after approval for use. “It’s safer than Tylenol and Viagra,” Dalven said.īut because of the heated political climate around abortion, the FDA placed barriers around mifepristone when it approved the drug for the market in 2000. The studies varied in sample size, with at least one which studied as many as 19,000 abortion patients. The Times found that 101 mifepristone studies conducted over 30 years in 26 countries found that the drug is 99 percent effective and safe. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine argues in its case that the FDA did not study the drug properly before releasing it to the public and, therefore, they claim it should be removed from the market and studied more comprehensively.ĭalven called the lawsuit “baseless” and “unprecedented.” She cited The New York Times, which looked into the issue a few days ago. over the 23-year period since the FDA first approved mifepristone for the market in 2000. The trend toward abortion medication has been on the increase in the U.S.
She said it would set a precedent in which any group that disagrees with a a medically-approved drug or vaccine that could seek court intervention to remove or prevent it from reaching the public. Jennifer Dalven, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, said through a press conference that if Kacsmaryk rules in favor of the plaintiffs, not only will mifepristone be potentially removed from the market, including in states where abortion is legal like New Mexico, but that this could have wide sweeping impacts for other medicines. If the FDA loses in both courts, it would then likely appeal to the U.S. The initial court ruling placed a stay on Abbott’s temporary ban but the state then appealed the decision to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which put Abbott’s ban back into effect. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned abortion at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, abortion providers sued. If the plaintiff’s prevail, the FDA is widely expected to appeal, but the appeal will go to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas, which tends to rule conservatively. Kacsmaryk heard testimony in March and is currently deliberating the case. District Court Judge in Amarillo, Matthew Kacsmaryk, is an appointee of former President Donald Trump. Seven years later, the court ruled that unmarried individuals also had the right to obtain birth control. Supreme Court ruled that states could not ban birth control between married couples in 1965. FDA, was brought to the Amarillo-based federal district court, abortion advocates have said, because the sole federal judge there has ties to Christian-based organizations and has said before that he supports state bans on birth control. The case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v.
This story appears as originally written below.Ī federal district judge in Texas is expected to rule in the coming weeks on whether the abortion drug mifepristone can remain on the market. A second federal judge in Washington ordered the FDA to make no changes to the availability of mifepristone. Update: The judge made his ruling Friday evening and invalidated the FDA approval though the judge stayed his own order for seven days to allow the FDA to appeal. Abortion rights protesters Washington D.C.
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