250 drug companies wrote BRUTAL letter condemning the Texas Judge's ruling banning mifepristone,

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This is a great letter

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

1. And I imagine taking other action. Good for them!

[grumpyduck]

2. Hizzonor can go fuck himself.

[Zorro]

6. Hizzonor doesn't care what any of his critics say

He's a committed zealot.

[dchill]

13. Which is SOOOO disqualifying!

[NullTuples]

14. With a lifetime appointment, good pay (w/ unofficial bonuses, no doubt) and a really cushy job.

[Warpy]

16. He certainly doesn't care about the anit establisment clause

and I sincerely hope that gets his "I'm bucking for sainthood and climbing up to heaven on the corpses of women is my route of choice" ass thrown off the bench.

let him open a storefront church, he has no business on the bench or anywhere in government.

[Initech]

32. Nope, these assholes only care about what's best for the cult.

The only thing this did was make the GOP look good to Fox News and AM radio hosts. It doesn't matter who it affects.

[roamer65]

3. Ok, 250 companies...now shut off ALL campaign contributions to the Repukes.

Put your money where your mouth is.

[alwaysinasnit]

10. +1000

[Captain Zero]

22. They need to announce two cycles of donation to

Democrats only.

Because this a huge problem of the entire Republican Party.

[Rebl2]

29. Exactly!

They worry some of their drugs may be next on his hit list 😐.

[Cha]

4. TY for the news, LMPV!

[RussBLib]

5. So now the RWers are politicizing medicine...

....and any minute now they will accuse the Dems of politicizing medicine.

[Deep State Witch]

11. Where have you been

The past three years? They started politicizing medicine even before the COVID lockdown started.

[NullTuples]

15. Conservatives started politicizing medicine when The Pill was first approved 62 years ago.

The first such birth control became available on the market in 1960. Birth control wasn't legal in all states until 1965 with the Supreme Court deciding in Griswold v. Connecticut that married couples have a Constitutional right to privacy that includes the right to use birth control. However, millions of unmarried women are still denied birth control. It wasn't until 1972 that the Supreme Court in Eisenstadt v. Baird legalized birth control for unmarried people.

[mopinko]

7. how is this not a taking?

not a lawyer, but this could cost those companies a fuckton of money. i thought you werent allowed to do that w/o compensation.

[paleotn]

24. Essentially it is. And yes, they spend a fuckton of money on drug development.

manufacturing, marketing and distribution....all to have some arbitrary, bible thumping asshole tell them months, years, even decades later that they can't sell it because....Jebus. Having to clear drugs with not only the FDA but a group of god bothering jackasses is no way to run an industry. And which group of god bothering assholes? There's literally thousands of different sects, all loony in their own special ways.

[C_U_L8R]

8. They need to withhold republican funding

That's the only way to get their attention.

[hippywife]

9. This letter...

has no official letterhead or identifying info as to the institution who sent it. The only links on Google I can find for this are this DU link and the tweets you posted.

[reACTIONary]

21. NYT, paywall free link...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/health/abortion-ruling-pharma-executives.html?unlocked_article_code=RB6N2mXKCXlV-MbmpC5Go5GH6vrsfqdk9U9OOr3hRaFqcIPAvIdydWaYNja4xBkGHc6N7iX5lmd34Gqb-qxAPcc-tY9wWu2yjOog5l67g9yEZ-fBN3DF7h6HbqbjPoDT4dO24t-3FlwTwTvlBOATpkSMbw1nNYfcUd5F0nluXzEMnSeaXjgffPdMzV73a0fHtRD1cxBxgiU046nQIw2T_89Q9niqepAkAQ607zPBl2VV4dsHZ6WZmahD9_d1OJP_N6Jr172CRXVH8TdJVWkfri5LuxJsyVNpcRln4mFWrQEgN7fh5JB4R5-0EcxdwysBqcNYXLMD2NmwMHk2TY8JO32EzehZKUYkfbI&smid=url-share

[hippywife]

38. Thank you! nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. Thank you for posting this

[Deep State Witch]

12. Well, We All Know

What the GQP thinks of "Big Pharma".

[Maeve]

17. "The Texas judge is finding out right now" yep! FAFO eom

[slightlv]

18. Great for the pushback,

but it's not going to make a hills worth of beans difference with this judge. He has an agenda. He doesn't care about the law or government or people.

He cares about making sure HIS morality is pushed upon everyone in the country, no excuses and all deaths shrugged off as "gods will." This judge be damned, and I don't wanna take a chance on a life after death for it to happen. I want to see his name dragged through the muck and mire. And I wouldn't be unhappy if his "judicial activism" cost him his livelihood, either. I'm sick of these theocrats deciding my life and the life of my sisters are worth less than even an undifferentiated clump of cells.

I only wish we could get ALL women to see how being 2nd class citizens and slaves to male culture is evil. But, unfortunately, there are far too many women who have been brainwashed into believing they really are worth less than spit.

[housecat]

28. May he reap what he sows

[Lonestarblue]

35. I would like to see him impeached for blatant abuse of judicial ethics and the substitution of

personal religious beliefs for the law. I known it won’t happen, but at the very least he needs to be sanctioned.

Biden needs to nominate a judge to fill the vacant Fifth Circuit position ASAP, and Schumer needs to get it through the Senate. Or is one of the Texas senators holding up the nomination because they’re hoping to take back the Senate after the 2024 election? The rule allowing a senator to block a nominee just because they’re from the same state needs to be jettisoned.

[reACTIONary]

19. NYT link, paywall free...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/health/abortion-ruling-pharma-executives.html?unlocked_article_code=RB6N2mXKCXlV-MbmpC5Go5GH6vrsfqdk9U9OOr3hRaFqcIPAvIdydWaYNja4xBkGHc6N7iX5lmd34Gqb-qxAPcc-tY9wWu2yjOog5l67g9yEZ-fBN3DF7h6HbqbjPoDT4dO24t-3FlwTwTvlBOATpkSMbw1nNYfcUd5F0nluXzEMnSeaXjgffPdMzV73a0fHtRD1cxBxgiU046nQIw2T_89Q9niqepAkAQ607zPBl2VV4dsHZ6WZmahD9_d1OJP_N6Jr172CRXVH8TdJVWkfri5LuxJsyVNpcRln4mFWrQEgN7fh5JB4R5-0EcxdwysBqcNYXLMD2NmwMHk2TY8JO32EzehZKUYkfbI&smid=url-share

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. Again, thanks for posting this

[Paladin]

20. Do those drug companies say they're prepared to withhold campaign funding?

If they don't, that letter isn't nearly BRUTAL enough.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. They ought to call it using the judiciary to establish religious principle as law

Unconstitutional.

[Lonestarblue]

36. Except the Supreme Court already did that with Dobbs.

[tinrobot]

25. If it stands, the ruling would create a horrible precedent.

If judges can arbitrarily decide what drugs can/cannot be used all hell could break loose.

Birth control pills could easily become illegal.
An anti-vax judge could take measles and polio shots off the market.
A judge married to a pharma exec could take their spouse's competition down.
Heck, any judge could take ANY drug off the market.

There would be no limits to this. Scary.

[ecstatic]

46. And let's not forget the possible illegal market manipulation

that goes along with their antics. I wonder if he leaked his plans to anyone prior to pounding his gavel.

[NoMoreRepugs]

26. Is it possible corporate America is waking up to the freakin' nightmare they created by supporting

these 'conservative' asshats all these years??

[BumRushDaShow]

33. Since you mention it

it might be instructive to see how Disney (one of the 30 Dow Jones companies) handles DeSatan.

See... their "conservative corporate-friendly benefactor base" seems to have been overwhelmed by the loons. So the those "business Republicans" have been siting back in a cowardly fashion trying to scrape some crumbs here and there while their extremist wing throws the corporations, MIC, and others under the bus in an effort to implement "religiously fringe CT" views and laws.

[NoMoreRepugs]

44. Disney vs DuhhSantis should be interesting.

[housecat]

27. Judge is a sadist like tfg

[Marthe48]

30. I heard a story years ago

Churches around here offered Bingo, with big prizes, no taxes. The state or local government made Bingo against the law. So the churches renamed it Ringo and kept playing it.

I don't know how true the story is, but tells me 3 things: 1) If you want to, you can get around a law. And 2) churches are as grubby as other people who want to skirt the law. And 3) Rename mifepristone, as many times as needed to protect its accessibility. Let the fascists bring a suit against every name change, and break their bank.

[lindysalsagal]

31. Awesome. Needs to happen more. Docs and hospitals need to yell and scream.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. For this thread

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

37. POS judge is a terrorist in black robes and a True Believer willing to do anything for the cause

He doesn't give a damn about what anybody says. He knows his job is safe - for life

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

39. wonderful

[Hermit-The-Prog]

42. Radical Christofascist extremists have no business in a judge's seat.

[mcar]

43. Let's see them stop their donations to Republicans

like Disney, they can talk, but they must act.

[ecstatic]

45. I wonder if big corporations are thinking twice about their alliance with the rethug party

If they set their institutional racism aside, they will realize that they do better under Democrats and they're not at risk of authoritarian thug dictator wannabes single-handedly sidelining their businesses.

Money talks so it'll be interesting to see how things play out. Will they continue propping up refuglikins who are trying to turn this country into a fascist theocracy that is shunned by the world? How do they think the USD will fare if this instability continues?