Judge at Texas is expected to make a decision that will affect all of the US. The US judge heard the arguments for and against banning the pill that causes it abortion in women who are in the first weeks of pregnancy.
The pill with the active substance mifepristone used for more than half of US maternity leave. The judge’s decision, if it is against the pill, is expected to also affect states where abortion is legal.
The groups, led by the Texas-based Alliance for Equine Medicine, are asking conservative U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo a preliminary injunction to stop sales of the drug while their treatment continues.
The groups sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in November, alleging the agency used an improper process when it approved mifepristone in 2000 and failed to adequately consider the safety of the drug when used by girls under 18 to terminate pregnancy.
President Joe Biden’s administration, responding to the lawsuit, said the drug’s approval was based on science.
Twelve of the 50 states now ban abortion altogether, while some others ban it after certain weeks of pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.
Any decision the judge makes, as reported by Reuters, is likely to be immediately appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. based in New Orleans.
One detail of significance is that the judge has been appointed by former President Donald Trump.
The trial comes nearly a year after the US Supreme Court ruled that states had the right to ban abortions, overturning a 1973 ruling.
Source: News Beast
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