Judge suspends FDA approval of abortion pill, blames 'political pressure' for lack of restrictions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : FDA's failure to insist on the inclusion of its proposed safety restrictions was not 'the product of reasoned decisionmaking.'" The long-anticipated ruling is praised by pro-life advocates and caused fear among abortion advocates who believe it will further hamper access to abortion in the aftermath of last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling finding that the U.S. Constitution doesn't contain a right to abortion.
47% : Earlier this year, a group of pro-life doctors released a 24-page report criticizing the Biden administration's decision, warning of the risks of taking mifepristone without medical supervision.
44% : "Planned Parenthood acknowledges the following possible complications after a chemical abortion: bleeding, infection, allergic reaction, retained fetal tissue, and incomplete abortion."
39% : The ruling reaffirms that pregnancy is not an illness and abortion is not health care.
38% : NARAL Pro-Choice America President Mini Timmaraju said the ruling could impact access to chemical abortions "even in states where abortion is protected." "This is meant to be a ban, plain and simple, and nearly 65 million Americans could be robbed of this safe, effective abortion care option," Timmaraju said.
37% : The nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, called the Texas ruling an "unprecedented and deeply harmful move.
28% : " "The judge's decision in Texas today blocking the FDA's approval of mifepristone is an outrage and exposes the weaponization of our judicial system to further restrict abortion nationwide," Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said in a statement.

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