The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Monday to halt a judge's ruling last week that would suspend access nationwide to the abortion drug mifepristone.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., threatened the Walgreens Corporation on Friday, claiming that if the drugstore chain pulled the abortion drug Mifepristone from pharmacy shelves in New York there would be "consequences."halt a judge's ruling last weekU.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ordered a pause Friday to the FDA's approval of mifepristone, which is used with the drug misoprostol to end a pregnancy within the first 70 days.
"Plaintiffs lack standing to challenge FDA’s approval of a drug they neither take nor prescribe; their challenge to FDA actions dating back to 2000 is manifestly untimely; and they have provided no basis for second-guessing FDA’s scientific judgment," the attorneys wrote."If allowed to take effect, that order will irreparably harm patients, healthcare systems, and businesses."
Mifepristone and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion, are seen at the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 17, 2022. Attorneys asked the appeals court to stay Kacsmaryk's ruling while the issue makes its way through the courts. It is likely to end up
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