{"id":626812,"date":"2023-04-07T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/judge-halts-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-mifepristone\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:46:00","slug":"judge-halts-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-mifepristone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/judge-halts-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-mifepristone\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Halts FDA Approval of Abortion Pill Mifepristone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered a hold on U.S. approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, throwing into question access to the nation\u2019s most common method of abortion<\/a> in a ruling that waved aside decades of scientific approval.<\/p>\n

The immediate impact of the ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, which does not go into immediate effect, was unclear.<\/p>\n

The abortion drug has been widely used in the U.S. since 2000 and there is essentially no precedent for a lone judge overruling the medical decisions of the Food and Drug Administration. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used for medication abortion in the United States, along with misoprostol, which is also used to treat other medical conditions.<\/p>\n

Kacsmaryk, a Trump administration appointee in Amarillo, Texas, signed an injunction directing the FDA to stay mifepristone\u2019s approval while a lawsuit challenging the safety and approval of the drug continues. His 67-page order gave the government seven days to appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimply put, FDA stonewalled judicial review\u2014until now,\u201d Kacsmaryk wrote.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t go as far as the plaintiffs wanted by withdrawing or suspending the approval of the chemical abortion drug and removing it from the list of approved drugs. But he put a \u201cstay\u201d or hold on approval of the drug.<\/p>\n

Federal lawyers representing the FDA are expected to swiftly appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clinics and doctors that prescribe the two-drug combination have said that if mifepristone were pulled from the market, they would switch to using only the second drug, misoprostol. That single-drug approach has a slightly lower rate of effectiveness in ending pregnancies, but it is widely used in countries where mifepristone is illegal or unavailable.<\/p>\n

Mifepristone is part of a two-drug regimen that has long been the standard for medication abortion in the U.S. Clinics and doctors that prescribe the combination say they plan to switch to using only misoprostol. The single-drug approach is slightly less effective at ending pregnancies.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was also involved in the Mississippi case that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned. At the core of the lawsuit is the allegation that the FDA\u2019s initial approval of mifepristone was flawed because it did not adequately review its safety risks.<\/p>\n

Courts have long deferred to the FDA on issues of drug safety and effectiveness. But the agency\u2019s authority faces new challenges in a post-Roe legal environment<\/a> in which abortions are banned or unavailable in 14 states, while 16 states have laws specifically targeting abortion medications.<\/p>\n

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AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered a hold on U.S. approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, throwing into question access to the nation\u2019s most common method of abortion in a ruling that waved aside decades of scientific approval. The immediate impact of the ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew J. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,3342,559],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial","8":"category-halts","9":"category-judge"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}