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Abortion drug rulings spur drugmaker worries about precedent

WASHINGTON — Experts worry two recent rulings challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of a drug used in medication abortions threaten to complicate the agency’s oversight and the pipeline for future research and drug approvals.

Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023

Top Dem lets GOP veto Biden judges

"Durbin refuses to revoke the blue-slip tradition that willingly grants GOP the ability to obstruct," critic says

Salon · Apr 11, 2023

Conflicting rulings for abortion pill

A bit of legal "whiplash" could occur in the next few days, one expert says

Salon · Apr 11, 2023

A Texas abortion provider moved to New Mexico. Today, most of its patients are Texans

DALLAS — Nine months after shuttering its Texas clinics, one of the nation’s largest independent abortion providers has opened a clinic in neighboring New Mexico.

Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023

Judge Halts FDA Approval Of Abortion Pill As The Biden Administration Vows To Fight

A Texas judge halted the approval of the abortion pill as the Biden Administration plan to appeal the decision in post-Roe

Zenger · Apr 11, 2023

Entrepreneurs launched startups to provide easy access to abortion pills. Now, the Texas ruling on mifepristone might force them to pivot

Startups Choix and Hey Jane must rethink their business models after a court ruling threatens FDA approval of a common abortion pill.

Fortune · Apr 11, 2023

American women, let this be your wake-up call: it won’t end with mifepristone

It doesn’t matter if you think abortion will be legal where you live – the anti-abortion movement wants a national ban

The Guardian - US · Apr 11, 2023

GOP's push against abortion becomes a runaway train

Backlash could box Republicans into defending unpopular policies in 2024.

Axios · Apr 11, 2023

How an abortion pill ruling could threaten the FDA's regulatory authority

A medical ethics expert says a Texas abortion pill ruling is unprecedented because a federal judge "standing in" for regulators could have far-reaching implications beyond mifepristone.

WEKU · Apr 11, 2023

Editorial: Bad Rx in Texas abortion pill case: In reversing FDA approval of mifepristone, Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk highlights his own extremism

The drug mifepristone is safe. In fact, what’s unsafe is its absence, as the lack of the crucial abortion-inducing drug will push women to have abortions in more dangerous ways, which is why it’s been FDA-approved for more than 20 years.

Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023