Mifepristone will lose its FDA approval this week unless an appeals court intervenes in a case likely to reach the supreme court
The issue may ultimately fall into the hands of theand its conservative supermajority, which eradicated abortion rights last year by overturning Roe v Wade.
“When you have different rulings from different federal courts it is more likely for the US supreme court to get involved.”in the US. Republican appointees comprise three-quarters of its bench, with six judges nominated by former president Donald Trump. The court has routinely ruled against the Biden administration and on behalf of Texas’s abortion laws.
of the anti-abortion groups that brought the case, writing that the FDA disregarded science that the drug causes harm, despite repeated studies finding it extremely safe. Legal experts say that the decision – the first time the judiciary has intervened to overturn FDA approval of a drug – could create a precedent that throws the entire drug approvals system into disarray.an open letter“Judicial activism will not stop here,” they cautioned.
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