'Federal judge could decide as soon as February to yank abortion pill nationwide' - RawStory

[GGoss]

Federal judge could decide as soon as February to yank abortion pill nationwide

A Texas judge could decide as soon as next month whether to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pull its two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill, which accounts for more than half of pregnancy terminations in the United States.

A nationwide injunction in the case, as requested by anti-abortion groups, would deny abortion medication even in states where abortion is legal and affect millions of individuals’ reproductive rights decisions. The legal fight is viewed as likely to eventually make its way to the Supreme Court, which in 2022 overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion rights.

The FDA is urging the federal judge — an appointee of former President Donald Trump...

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/federal-judge-could-decide-as-soon-as-february-to-yank-abortion-pill-nationwide/

[raging moderate]

1. Could somebody please share this to Facebook?

I have been put in Facebook jail for sharing that other story about the products of very early abortions.

[In It to Win It]

2. Matthew FUCKING Kacsmaryk

[Elessar Zappa]

3. The FDA should ignore any such order.

[RKP5637]

4. This is incredible! The fascist state marches forward. In Canada one of their top analysts has

postulated the US might well be a dictatorship in about 10 years and Canada should recognize this and prepare ... The article is about one year old but seems relevant with some of this shit going on ...

This article is more than 1 year old - "US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns"

Link >>> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/us-rightwing-dictatorship-2030-trump-canada

[dalton99a]

5. POS Kacsmaryk is out of control

Kacsmaryk was appointed by Trump in 2019, as was Hendrix.

The U.S. Senate voted 52-46 to confirm Kacsmaryk in June 2019 with Maine’s Susan Collins as the sole Republican to vote against him.

Collins told The Washington Post ahead of the vote that Kacsmaryk had an “alarming bias against LGBTQ Americans and disregard for Supreme Court precedents.”

“Mr. Kacsmaryk has dismissed proponents of reproductive choice as ‘sexual revolutionaries,’ and disdainfully criticized the legal foundations of Roe v. Wade,” Collins said in her statement to the Post. “Such extreme statements reflect poorly on Mr. Kacsmaryk’s temperament and suggest an inability to respect precedent and to apply the law fairly and impartially.”

[multigraincracker]

6. Find a good Vet.

They have lots of them.

[Irish_Dem]

9. They will be the next targets?

The GOP nazis never miss an opportunity to target their hate and rage.

[Demovictory9]

7. This would cause such an uproar

[GGoss]

8. Yep... Medication Abortion Now Accounts for More Than Half of All US Abortions - Guttmacher

Medication Abortion Now Accounts for More Than Half of All US Abortions - Guttmacher Institute



Article: https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/02/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions

[Irish_Dem]

10. The GOP doesn't care what the people think.

Uproar means nothing to them. They just double and triple down.

[Mad_Machine76]

14. Then they will have to be removed at the next election

take them out one by one until there's almost nobody left. The GOP may not care but I'm going to wager that most people in this country don't want to live in theocratic dictatorship.

[Irish_Dem]

22. The GOP doesn't need the good will of the people anymore?

They must think that with gerrymandering, voter suppression, cheating, control of the courts, they can do what ever they want. Voters don't seem to matter.

For example no matter who is elected to office, the supreme court is now a judicial junta who decides public law and policy.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Amazing how easy it is to take the US back 100 years.

[Marthe48]

12. As I understand it, the pills prevent the egg from implanting

in the uterine wall. We all need to stop calling it an abortion pill, call it anything else. And wishing mightily that this assault on women would stop.

[maxsolomon]

17. "We" can call it whatever we want

THEY won't.

[Marthe48]

19. Just keep trying

they will call it whatever they want, and we need to push back.

[Crunchy Frog]

24. No. You're thinking of a different medication.

There isn't a medication that prevents implantation, as far as I know. Plan B works by preventing ovulation which is why it's more successful the earlier you take it, and rarely works after around 4 days after unprotected sex.

This is not an abortion pill.

The abortion pill combo does cause an abortion. It's only given when there's a confirmed pregnancy, and that only happens after implantation. It's used during the 1st 9-10 weeks of pregnancy. One of the pills blocks progesterone, which keeps the uterine lining from sloughing. The other one causes the uterus to contract.

One of the pills used in medication abortions is also used to treat ulcers, and has some other applications as well, so I don't know how they ban that one.

[Mad_Machine76]

13. Good lord

If (when) this single person rules against this, then what? Will there be any appeal process that stands a chance of success? It's astounding that one particular judge can have this much power over the federal government and that it's perfectly fine to "judge shop" virtually anything just to get the result that you want. Surely, we have to have some kind of recourse? Right? Right?

[blogslug]

15. That judge is Matthew Kacsmaryk. Of course he will rule against access to the medication.

That's why they filed the case in Amarillo.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

16. This motherfucker should NOT have this much fucking power.

n/t

[ecstatic]

21. Right. I can't believe I thought this was a democracy

at one point. Absolutely insane!

[edhopper]

18. Co-equal branches

The FDA (Executive) should ignore any such ruling.
As the Court has no jurisdiction on this. Just as the EPA needs to ignore the SC ruling on green house gasses.

[ecstatic]

20. I feel sorry for the children who had no hand in this fiasco

Every adult gop enabler can go straight to hell as far as I care. When a 55+ year old trumper is whining about not being able to get an abortion I will have zero sympathy. Zero.

[sakabatou]

23. Holy fuck...