One of the nation’s leading pro-life organizations is praising the ruling of a U.S. district court in Texas last week that stayed the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone nationwide.
Susan B. Anthony (SBA) Pro-Life America State Policy Director Katie Daniel said the ruling out of Texas “is a win for the health and safety of women and girls.”
“The ruling reaffirms that pregnancy is not an illness and abortion is not health care,” Daniel said. “Finally, the FDA is being held accountable for its egregious violation of its own rules to fast-track dangerous abortion drugs to market.”
However, within hours of the ruling by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Donald Trump appointee, a Washington State federal judge then issued a decision in State of Washington v. United States Food and Drug Administration, which blocked “altering the status quo and rights as it relates to the availability of Mifepristone.”
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