US abortion pill access in doubt after Texas judge suspends approval

"Anti-abortion groups embraced the Texas ruling."

"The timing of the competing orders revealed the high stakes surrounding the drug nearly a year after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and curtailed access to abortion across the country."

"Abortion medication mifepristone - approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000 - was blocked Donald Trump appointee US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who ordered a hold on federal approval of mifepristone in Texas as part of a decision that overruled decades of scientific approval."

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"But that decision came at nearly the same time that US District Judge Thomas O Rice, an Obama appointee in Washington, directed US authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the drug in at least 17 states where Democrats sued in an effort to protect availability."

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"President Joe Biden said his administration would fight the Texas ruling."

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""Vice President Kamala Harris and I will continue to lead the fight to protect a woman's right to an abortion, and to make her own decisions about her own health.""

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""The Court in this case has substituted its judgment for FDA, the expert agency that approves drugs," Mr Biden said."

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"In late 2021 the FDA - under the Biden administration - dropped a requirement that women pick up the drug in person, opening the door to delivery by mail-order pharmacies."

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