After the right to abortion, the abortion pill? The White House expressed concern on Wednesday about a potential ban “devastating” abortion pills throughout the United States, as a conservative judge could decide. Such a decision would be “unprecedented and devastating for women. And we would find ourselves in unknown territory.said US executive spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre during her routine press briefing.
“We are working closely with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health to be prepared” to this eventuality, she assured. A Texas federal judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, can since February 24 render his decision at any time on a complaint filed by opponents of abortion against the United States Medicines Agency concerning the authorization in 2000 of mifepristone ( RU 486), one of the two pills used for medical termination of pregnancy.
54% medical abortions
“The FDA betrayed women and girls when it chose politics over science and approved the use of a chemical for abortion in the United States”, write the plaintiffs represented by the Christian organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). Accusing the FDA of having “exceeded its prerogatives”, they are asking the federal court to immediately suspend this authorization for the whole of the United States, pending a substantive examination of their arguments. The appeal is causing apprehension among abortion rights advocates because it was filed in Amarillo, Texas, where the only federal judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, appointed by former Republican President Donald Trump, is known for his positions. ultra-conservative.
These plaintiffs ask the magistrate to suspend this authorization without delay for the whole of the United States. His decision could have enormous consequences, since 54% of abortions performed in the country today are medical. Since the Supreme Court of the United States dynamited the right to abortion, last June, fifteen States have banned abortions on their soil and abortion pills are illegal there. But women who live there can still get the pills from neighboring states, a simpler procedure than surgery.
