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AOC: SCOTUS ruling could mean national abortion ban
AOC: SCOTUS ruling could mean national abortion banRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday that should a case that upholds a ban on access to an abortion pill reach the Supreme Court, it would essentially “institute a national abortion ban.”
A federal judge in Texas issued a ruling that blocked the federal authorization of mifepristone, an abortion medication that has been on the market for over 20 years, arguing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rushed its approval process. The Biden administration quickly appealed the ruling, setting the case on a possible path to the highest court in the country.
On the same day, a judge in Washington state ordered U.S. authorities to not make any changes to access to the medications with the dueling decisions throwing into question the future of access to the abortion method.
“I do not believe that the courts have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted. And I do believe that it creates a crisis,” Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“Should the Supreme Court do that, it would essentially institute a national abortion ban, because you have an extraordinary amount of states who have implemented surgical bans or bans after very early time periods.”
The ruling by the federal judge in Texas is just another move that has restricted access to abortion care after the Supreme Court struck down federal protections for abortion last year. A string of Republican-led states have passed laws that have drawn back abortion access.
A federal judge in Texas issued a ruling that blocked the federal authorization of mifepristone, an abortion medication that has been on the market for over 20 years, arguing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rushed its approval process. The Biden administration quickly appealed the ruling, setting the case on a possible path to the highest court in the country.
On the same day, a judge in Washington state ordered U.S. authorities to not make any changes to access to the medications with the dueling decisions throwing into question the future of access to the abortion method.
“I do not believe that the courts have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted. And I do believe that it creates a crisis,” Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“Should the Supreme Court do that, it would essentially institute a national abortion ban, because you have an extraordinary amount of states who have implemented surgical bans or bans after very early time periods.”
The ruling by the federal judge in Texas is just another move that has restricted access to abortion care after the Supreme Court struck down federal protections for abortion last year. A string of Republican-led states have passed laws that have drawn back abortion access.
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Acceptance of this bullshit then invalidates the existence and authority of the FDA that has been in place for 117 years.
Just like Loose Cannon and her unprecedented interference in a criminal investigation of the disposition of government property (government-owned documents including those with classified markings), Kacsmaryk now joins her in the rarefied realm of blowing up the Constitutional separation of powers.
