The attorneys general of 21 states and the District of Columbia told a Texas judge revoking the government's decades-old approval of an abortion medication would represent a 'dangerous attack' on public health.
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks in Brentwood, New York, March 18, 2022.Dozens of states on Friday waded into a Texas lawsuit on the abortion pill, with Republican attorneys general calling for a nationwide ban on the drug even in states where it's legal. Democrats said doing so would be a public health disaster.
Republicans countered that the US regulators at the Food and Drug Administration had made the drug too widely accessible to the public, infringing upon their right to ban use of the drug within their states. Still, the conservative legal group Alliance for Defending Freedom has fought for years to revoke approval of the drug on the grounds that the FDA's approach was flawed and that regulators ignored safety concerns."The FDA has completely failed to protect America's women and girls when it comes to chemical abortion drugs," said Julie Marie Blake, senior counsel for the plaintiff in the case.
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