The nation's top health official said Sunday that a court ruling threatening the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion was “not America' and he did not rule out defying the judge's order if necessary
“We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,” Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s health secretary, told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We want, yes, that women continue to have access to a drug that’s proven itself safe. Millions of women have used this drug around the world.”
Biden said his administration would fight the Texas ruling. Kacsmaryk’s 67-page order gave the government seven days to appeal. Asked whether he might recommend that the FDA ignore a ban, Becerra said, “Everything is on the table.” Kacsmaryk’s decision ordering a hold on federal approval of mifepristone overruled decades of scientific approval. But a ruling at nearly the same time in Washington state from that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, a Barack Obama appointee, directed U.S. 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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