Federal judges grill Biden administration on abortion pill

"Wilson is a longtime critic of the Roe decision, and voted while in the Mississippi state legislature to ban abortion at 15 and at 6 weeks of pregnancy and to strip funding from Planned Parenthood."

"Wilson is a longtime critic of the Roe decision, and voted while in the Mississippi state legislature to ban abortion at 15 and at 6 weeks of pregnancy and to strip funding from Planned Parenthood."

"Ho called abortion a "moral tragedy" in a 2018 opinion."

"In briefs filed with the appeals court, the Biden administration said some of the claims in the case are based on speculation that the doctors could be hit with malpractice charges in the future if they refuse to treat patients who took the pills."

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""FDA can make that determination based on exercising its own scientific expertise, but it's not a court's role to come in and second-guess that expertise."nn"I guess I'm wondering, why not just focus on the facts of this case, rather than have this sort of FDA-can-do-no-wrong theme," countered Ho, an appointee of President Donald Trump."

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"But Judge Cory Wilson, also a Trump appointee, said steps FDA has taken in recent years to broaden the availability of mifepristone made it more likely that patients would show up in an emergency room to address complications."

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"During a hearing here before a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the judges - all of whom are Republican appointees-grilled attorneys from the Biden administration and Danco, the pill's manufacturer, who are battling to keep the drug available in the U.S.Judge James Ho began sparring with Justice Department attorney Sarah Harrington just seconds into her argument, challenging her for describing the legal dispute over the abortion pill as the first of its kind."

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