Texas, USA — Amarillo U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmarik motion Allows the states of Idaho, Missouri, and Kansas to intervene in a lawsuit originally filed by anti-abortion groups against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2022. Hippocratic Medical Union. The judgment was handed down on Friday, January 12, 2023.
The FDA had argued, among other things, that it waited too long for states to join the lawsuit. But the justices disagreed with the order, saying each state could assert its interest in the case.Judge Kashmalik, previously appointed by President Trump Paused In April 2023, the drug was approved for use in what was called an unprecedented legal move.
One of the points in the motion to intervene shows that people are traveling out of state or ordering by mail to obtain the chemical abortion drug called mifepristone (Mifeprex). This is new data. They argue that the drug is unsafe and that hospitals need to spend more money addressing these complications.
The drug Mifeprex was approved by the FDA as a generic drug in April 2019, and the agency approved the drug under its own brand in September 2020. Website The drug should be safe if used correctly.
“The FDA approved Mifeprex more than 20 years ago based on a thorough and comprehensive review of the scientific evidence presented and found it to be safe and effective for its indicated use. ” he said. FDA website state.
The motion to intervene argues that the FDA has failed to meet the expectations of the American public by failing to “deny or restrict the use of drugs that are dangerous to the public.” Additionally, women and girls were disqualified from this category.
The judge's decision to grant the motion, also filed Friday, said the state's complaint raises a “substantial amount of allegations against the FDA and that could “impact FDA's interests” regarding alleged illegality. The court found that the argument was sufficient. . The court specifically agreed with one of the three states' arguments that the case “has real consequences because it affects the economy, sovereignty, and the nation.” [interests.
The judge furthered that even if he was mistaken in his analyses and the states were not entitled to intervene, the court can still allow them to intervene based on precedents that states courts can allow intervention, when “the application is timely, there is a common question of law or fact and there will be no undue delay or prejudice to the original parties.”
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Indiana, and Kentucky issued a statement on the ruling, calling it a “seemingly innocuous legal move” that actually will give more credibility to an argument, that they call, “based on hypothesis.” The organization furthered it will open the door for the Supreme Court to undertake baseless arguments.
“It’s no coincidence that you are seeing Idaho in front of the Supreme Court time and time again,” said CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Indiana, Kentucky, Rebecca Gibron. “They are consistently at the forefront of the battle against reproductive rights that their own state doesn’t support, and is actively being harmed by, with some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. Lawmakers here are doing everything in their power to take us backward and ignore decades of proof that Mifepristone is a safe and effective option. For the sake of patients everywhere, we hope the court will see through this embarrassing attempt to grasp at legal straws.”
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s Office told KTVB he was very pleased that the court in Texas recognized Idaho’s standing in the case.
“We intervened over concerns for the safety of Idaho women and the virtually unregulated access to mail-order abortion pills. The Federal Drug Administration’s recklessness puts the lives of both pregnant women and their unborn children in medical jeopardy,” Labrador stated.
The original lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, Christian Medical and Dental Associations and four doctors. It states that the drug, Mifepristone, was not properly approved by the FDA and the drug should be taken off the market to protect women’s health.
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, originally named the Alliance Defense Fund, is headquartered in Amarillo, Texas, and is designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The center states the alliance has continually fought to minimize LGBTQ+ and abortion rights.
“[The Alliance] Through legal strategies, training thousands of lawyers, and advocating for policy changes at the state and federal level, it seeks to eradicate the separation of church and state and graft conservative Christianity into the legal profession and culture at large. ” states the SPLC website.
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists is an organization of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists, and the American College of Pediatricians is an advocacy group for conservative pediatricians. Designated A hate group by the SPLC, which it calls a fringe hate group, “promotes anti-LGBTQ junk science primarily through far-right conservative media and files court briefs in cases related to gay adoption.” in the guise of America's premier pediatric association,'' and marriage equality. ”
supreme court decided A trial will be held in December 2023, with a verdict expected in summer 2024.
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