Access to abortion medication in the country is currently in a stand-off between two competing rulings.
As the access to mifepristone currently appears stuck in a stand-off between the two competing rulings, Los Angeles attorney Vineet Dubey, co-founder of Custodio and Dubey LLP, told"Judges aren't intended to be subject matter experts outside of interpreting the law," he said, criticizing the Texas ruling.
"Whim and caprice aren't the same as facts and evidence and are not an objective foundation for good law. Could a judge simply sweep aside the measles vaccine as unsafe, based on thin evidence from an anti-vax interest group, despite decades of evidence and monitoring by the FDA?" he asked. He added:"Never before has a judge overruled FDA guidance and recommendations on a drug that's been safely used in this country. For mifepristone, there [exists] 23 years of evidence which a judge, who has no scientific background, [asked] to throw out without the knowledge necessary to make an informed decision."
Dubey expects that"the split in circuits, with this quick ruling from Judge Thomas Rice, almost certainly means the Supreme Court will ultimately get involved." In June last year, the Supreme Court—currently with a majority of Republican justices, three of whom were appointed by
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