The administration will seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - United States Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to intervene toas President Joe Biden’s administration moves to defend access to the drug.
The 5th Circuit, however, declined to block portions of Mr Kacsmaryk’s order, reinstating restrictions on the pill’s distribution that had been lifted since 2016. In response to a request for clarification from the administration, US District Judge Thomas Rice in Spokane, Washington affirmed on Thursday that the FDA is forbidden from enforcing any new restrictions in those states, regardless of Mr Kacsmaryk’s order.Anti-abortion groups led by the recently formed Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and four anti-abortion doctors sued the FDA in November seeking to pull approval of misoprostol.
Health policy and legal experts have said Mr Kacsmaryk’s decision, if allowed to stand, would threaten the FDA’s power to regulate all drugs nationwide and to act as the ultimate arbiter on drug safety. It said the government’s arguments for an emergency stay of the ruling focused on the potential harm of pulling mifepristone from the market entirely but that it was “difficult to argue” that the 2016 changes “were so critical to the public given that the nation operated - and mifepristone was administered to millions of women - without them for 16 years”.
The plaintiffs sought a sympathetic court by suing in Amarillo, where Mr Kacsmaryk is the only federal district judge.
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