{"id":570114,"date":"2023-04-14T00:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T21:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/supreme-court-faces-urgent-test-in-abortion-pill-battle\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T00:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T21:50:47","slug":"supreme-court-faces-urgent-test-in-abortion-pill-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/supreme-court-faces-urgent-test-in-abortion-pill-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"#Supreme Court faces urgent test in abortion pill battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/supremecourt_032223_Getty.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Supreme Court will face its first test in the battle over abortion pills, after the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked it to pause a ruling set to take effect this weekend that would significantly hamper the availability of mifepristone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A late Wednesday night federal <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eals court ruling on the widely used abortion pill will keep it on the market for now, but could make it significantly more difficult to access, even in blue states that have fought to expand availability.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Abortion rights advocates, along with medical and legal experts, said Wednesday night\u2019s ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threatens to throw the availability of mifepristone into chaos if it is allowed to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>The late-night decision temporarily blocked the most contentious part of a decision handed down last week by a judge in Texas that invalidated the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s approval of mifepristone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So the drug will remain available, but severely restricted \u2014 unless the Supreme Court stops the circuit court ruling from coming into force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two of the three judges on the panel kept in place parts of the decision that essentially turned the clock back to 2016, when FDA started issuing new guidelines to ease access to the pill.<\/p>\n<p>Those changes included increasing the gestational age when mifepristone can be used up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, allowing the medication to be mailed to patients, allowing providers other than physicians to prescribe the drug, and approving a generic version of mifepristone.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Merrick Garland will likely ask the Supreme Court to pause each of those remaining portions, which go into effect early Saturday morning, barring an intervention from the justices.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe Justice Department strongly disagrees with the Fifth Circuit\u2019s decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA to deny in part our request for a stay pending appeal,\u201d Garland said in a statement on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be seeking emergency relief from the Supreme Court to defend the FDA\u2019s scientific judgment and protect Americans\u2019 access to safe and effective reproductive care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is not required to consider the case, but legal experts and advocates said the stakes are too high for it to ignore. If the Supreme Court rejects the case, the Fifth Circuit\u2019s decision remains in place.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAll eyes are focused on the Supreme Court,\u201d said Jennifer Dalven, director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has dangerous implications both in terms of federal law and state law as well. And so we really need the Supreme Court to step in here and right the ship and impose some sort of judicial accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Fifth Circuit\u2019s opinion seems to directly contradict a ruling on Friday from a Washington state judge, who ordered the FDA to leave in place the current mifepristone prescribing and dispensing rules for 17 blue states and D.C. that filed a separate lawsuit.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Biden administration warned if the decision were allowed to stand, it would put every FDA drug approval decision at risk of being challenged for political purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this decision stands, no medication\u2014from chemotherapy drugs, to asthma medicine, to blood pressure pills, to insulin\u2014would be safe from attacks,\u201d Vide President Kamala Harris said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision threatens the rights of Americans across the country, who can look in their medicine cabinets and find medication prescribed by a doctor because the FDA engaged in a process to determine the efficacy and safety of that medication.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u00a0American Medical Association president Jack Resneck Jr. issued a similar warning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night\u2019s decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is a profoundly dangerous step backwards on access to mifepristone,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The order \u201copens a pandora\u2019s box for similar politically motivated, unscientific attacks by judges with no medical or scientific training against the FDA\u2019s scientific, evidence-based approvals of countless other medications,\u201d Resneck said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>If the Supreme Court does consider the case, the compressed timeline means the DOJ could initially ask the justices for an administrative stay, which would pause all prior rulings until the high court can consider the administration\u2019s request.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization which represents the anti-abortion groups suing FDA, told reporters during a briefing Thursday that they see the appeals court\u2019s decision as a \u201csignificant victory\u201d and has \u201cno im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te plans\u201d to appeal it.<\/p>\n<p>However, the group is confident it will be able to argue that FDA\u2019s initial approval of mifepristone in 2000 was unlawful, just like District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled last week.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe anticipate that we might be able to persuade the Fifth Circuit on a fuller briefing that the 2000 ruling is in play,\u201d said the group\u2019s senior counsel Erin Hawley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for now, we\u2019ve got a great victory in the fact that there are now three required doctor visits to make sure women are safe, and the FDA complies with the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. 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