President Joe Biden and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should ignore a federal judge’s ruling to revoke approval of a widely used abortion drug, according to Democratic lawmakers, legal analysts and abortion rights advocates.
Hours after a Texas judge threatened to suspend the FDA’s approval of mifepristone on 7 April, US Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told CNN that right-wing jurists have undermined their legitimacy through the “deeply partisan and unfounded nature” of such rulings.
