A carefully selected MAGAt judge with a long history of being against a woman's right to control her own body, and with no medical training whatever, has just rendered a judgment that is so factually inaccurate and poorly argued that it is like an SNL version of anti-womens' rights. This at the same time that a judge at the same level in the judiciary in Washington state issued a judgment that is factually based and reaches exactly the opposite ruling. This will now go to the very corrupt ideological Supreme Court. It will be interesting to see how that goes. What needs to happen, in my opinion, is that the 2024 election should produce a House and a Senate, and a Presidency all strongly controlled by Democrats who then pass legislation making it the law nationwide that women have the right to control their own bodies. Period.
The J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse where U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk will decide on a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas. Credit: Justin Rex / AP
A Texas federal judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, ruled Friday to suspend the FDA’s approval of mifepristone — one of two drugs used together to cause an abortion — virtually banning the sale of the pills across the country.
The decision, however, gives the Biden administration a week to appeal, meaning the hundreds of thousands of patients who use the medication both for abortions and treating miscarriages will not be immediately impacted.
The pills, which the FDA approved for use in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy more than two decades ago, recently became the most common method of abortion in the United States, and a way many people have circumvented state bans since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June.
Both abortion-rights supporters and opponents have focused intensely on the pills in recent months — […]
