Health
Judge Invalidates F.D.A. Approval of the Abortion Pill Mifepristone
A federal choose in Texas issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the Meals and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion tablet mifepristone, an unprecedented order that — if it stands by way of court docket challenges — might make it tougher for sufferers to get abortions in states the place abortion is authorized, not simply in these making an attempt to limit it.
Lower than an hour later, one other federal choose in Washington state issued a ruling that straight contradicted the Texas determination, ordering the F.D.A. to make no modifications to the supply of mifepristone.
The conflicting orders by two federal judges seem to create a authorized standoff more likely to escalate to the Supreme Court docket. The drug will proceed to be out there no less than within the short-term because the Texas choose stayed his personal order for seven days to provide the F.D.A. time to ask an appeals court docket to intervene.