A U.S. judge in Texas has suspended the government’s decades-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, which terminates a pregnancy within the first 10 weeks.
On Friday, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. Northern District of Texas, who was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump, ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had ignored the risks in approving the drug. Kacsmaryk also noted that his ruling would not take effect for one week to give U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration seven days to appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
