The court’s action sets up a collision between the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year study and supervision of mifepristone, and the circumstances under which it can be prescribed.

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          7 months ago

          This Supreme Court ruling will de facto gut the fda, if I remember right. Basically ruling that the courts get to override the fda.

          Remember all the chaos of early covid and conservatives railing against the vaccines because they weren’t FDA approved? Lol guess it was never about it being approved, was it?

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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The court’s action sets up a collision between the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year study and supervision of the abortion pill, and the circumstances under which it can be prescribed.

    The clash over the abortion pill began April 7 in Texas when U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a onetime anti-abortion activist, imposed a nationwide ban on mifepristone, declaring that the FDA had improperly approved the drug 23 years ago.

    The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine argues they have the authority to bring the case because “FDA always envisioned that emergency room doctors…would be a crucial component of the mifepristone regimen.”

    The group challenging the FDA claims that when the agency made the drugs more accessible, they exceeded their power and regulatory safeguards.

    In its brief, the government says the FDA has “maintained that scientific judgment across five presidential administrations, while updating the drug’s approved conditions of use based on additional evidence and experience,” including the over five million patients who have taken it.

    The Fifth Circuit’s decision “threatens to undermine the FDA’s scientific, independent judgment and would reimpose outdated restrictions on access to safe and effective medication abortion,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.


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