Warner says Texas ruling on abortion pill was ‘crazy’

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) mentioned the federal Texas decide ruling that invalidated the Meals and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decades-old approval on the abortion capsule mifepristone was “loopy.”

“I’m unsure the right way to learn it. I do know that it was the decide’s choice in Texas,” he advised ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week.” “I feel it was loopy. The notion that you’d take a drug that has been used safely for greater than 20 years and by some means then take that away from availability.”

A federal decide in Texas blocked FDA’s approval of mifepristone, which is the commonest type of abortion within the U.S. The Supreme Court docket halted the decrease courtroom ruling, which means entry to the widespread abortion capsule mifepristone will stay unchanged in the interim whereas the Biden administration proceeds with an enchantment.

Warner mentioned that most individuals in Virginia wouldn’t help state Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) push to restrict entry to abortion. He mentioned Virginia residents would “overwhelmingly reject these sort of insurance policies,” just like the six-week abortion ban proposed in Florida.

He added that the Supreme Court docket’s choice to halt the Texas ruling was the “proper” one.

“I, frankly, assume this is a matter that girls’s healthcare selections should be made by girls and the thought of this decide so radically intervening with a secure process, you recognize, frankly, not solely about girls’s healthcare selections, however it undermines the very integrity of our FDA course of,” Warner mentioned. “And I feel the courtroom obtained it proper, however who is aware of the place their final choice might be.”