Anti-abortion groups seek to overturn FDA approval of abortion pill

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

A group of anti-abortion organizations sued HHS and the FDA on Friday in a bid to reverse the FDA’s approval of the abortion medication mifepristone.

Lawyers from the conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Amarillo on behalf of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, the Christian Medical & Dental Associations and four doctors.

The FDA declined to comment on the litigation. An HHS spokesperson defended the medication as safe and effective and said that “denying women access to any essential care they need is downright dangerous and extreme.”

The case: The ADF’s lawyers argue that the FDA went beyond its authority in approving the medication 22 years ago.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/18/anti-abortion-groups-seek-to-overturn-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-00069542

[Botany]

1. The conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom

Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion too and freedom also means the freedom of
all woman to control their own bodies and everybody else can just fuck off.

[Traildogbob]

2. Get their

God damned Gawd out of our laws. It’s right there in the damned constitution, just like part of the second amendment. Until they outlaw Viagra fuck them all to hell.

[Botany]

4. No good mother fucking Christo Fascists

I wonder which billionaire or right wing group is funding this "freedom group" in
order to stir up shit so as to keep pushing the GOP's blueprint of keeping the minority
controlling the majority.

That jaaa bee ZHUS juice is one hell of a drug and the PTB behind the right use it for
their own agenda.

[Traildogbob]

6. A----Fucking----Men.

Happy Holidays. No presents for a brown Jewish refugee baby. Poor Joseph. Had to explain how his virgin wife birthed a baby he had no part in.

[Botany]

13. My now late Uncle and Aunt were episcopalians who ran a parish in S.W. OH and they

lived their faith and even after their deaths in setting up a food bank to help the people around
Hillsboro, OH I have no time for those mother fucking fake ass "Christians."

"Freedom?" Fuck you phony ass punks.

[Traildogbob]

14. I really

Wish Christian’s like your aunt and uncle, the Jimmy Carters of religion, would take a major stand against these fake ass Fools, just using region to get power and money. An all out messaging war exposing their fake game. Gawd should make an effort to defend his/her rep.

[summer_in_TX]

18. It dawned on me this week that while I've lamented the rise of

Christian Nationalists, knowing they were mistaken or lying about who Jesus was and what He stands for, I've never raised my voice against their heretical theology and taken a stand other than in remarks to friends.

By not doing so, I've stood by while real harm has been done. Their ideology is extremist and not at all what Jesus would have us do. The successful attack they mounted on the right to decide for oneself about whether and when to have a child is just one issue.

Why should those who distort and defame Jesus be allowed to get by without answering for their heresy? Bad theology doesn't lead to abundant life but to a world of scarcity for the many and of elevation in the hierarchy of those of "right belief."

[SunSeeker]

12. Nothing invokes "Freedom" like being forced to give birth to your rapist's spawn.

[Warpy]

3. I doubt these pious bullies will be able to bully the FDA

and would only create a huge black market if they did.

[Otto_Harper]

5. Why not outlaw antibiotics and anti virals at the same time.

After all, if its Gawd's will that you take sick and die, then it is not for man to try to tamper with the forces of the universe.

[intheflow]

21. Adding Viagra to your list.

Bring back the leeches and blood letting! If it were good enough for the founding fathers who lived 200 years before germs were identified and cancer was called the “wasting disease.” Chemo is evil! It’s God’s will that you die.

This is , for the sarcasm-impaired on DU.

[Lonestarblue]

7. These people will not be satisfied until they have turned the US into a country where women have

absolutely no rights to their own bodies. Red states are moving closer to Gilead every day. We need a Supreme Court that respects the separation of church and state instead of the one we have pushing theocracy.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Prohibitionist Redux

[NullTuples]

9. Hi, we're Alliance Defending Freedom and we are here to defend your freedom, ladies!

- The freedom to carry all pregnancies to term
- The freedom to incur health care expenses
- The freedom to live a more Christian life
- The freedom to maybe die due to pregnancy
- Many more coming soon!

[Marthe48]

10. Do they have the FDA mistaken f or the s.c.?

I know the unelected fascist liars on the (formerly) s.c will bend over and grab their ankles for anyone trying to make abortion go under the table, but how would this lawsuit actually work?

Hoping a sicence based judge throws it out and fines the assh*les for wasting the courts' time.

Stockpiling any meds sounds like a good idea to me.

And finally, how did we get from being a fact-based leader in the world, to becoming a fascist theocracy that is really no better than any country that oppresses its citizens?

[NickB79]

11. 22 years of real world evidence

If it's dangerous, it's easy enough to show the peer-reviewed studies or STFU.

[Orrex]

15. Every Reichwing Conservative advocacy group...

should be legally required to be referred to as a Konservative Kristian Koalition.

[DownriverDem]

16. They won't stop

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with the abortion pill. Next they would go after contraception. The Midterms showed That the voters do not want to be told what to do. The blowback would be huge.

[JohnSJ]

17. WTF. When did these assholes become doctors

[ShazzieB]

19. This makes, me mad enough to chew nails. 😡

From the article (please note the portion I've bolded):

“The FDA’s approval of chemical abortion drugs has always stood on shaky legal and moral ground, and after years of evading responsibility, it’s time for the government to do what it’s legally required to do: protect the health and safety of vulnerable girls and women,” Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist said in a statement.

The hypocrisy, paternalism, and condescension of this statement make me want to fling sharp objects at whoever is responsible for it. First of all, it's an outright lie; carrying pregnancy to term is MUCH riskier and less safe than having an abortion (whether via a procedure performed by a properly trained health care professional or by using medication. Second, we poor little "vulnerable girls snd womwn" are perfectly capable of making these decisions for ourselves, and the last thing we need is to be "protected" by draconian laws that actually put women's lives in jeopardy when an abortion is needed because of pregnancy complications.

If someone objects to abortion because it conflicts with their religious beliefs, that's their right. Making laws that put the government between women and their health care providers and force women who do not share those beliefs to be controlled by them is NOBODY'S right, and it needs to freaking STOP!

[The Jungle 1]

20. They call abortion murder and object to the death.

However they refuse to accept that man made climate change is real and will cause epic famine and collapse of societies all over the world!!!
They refuse to improve our healthcare system so all people can get healthcare.
They refuse to feed and house the poor among us.
They refuse to accept that their laws will not stop abortion.

[maliaSmith]

22. time to ban Viagra

If these insane far right GOP want to ban meds women use, it's time to ban Viagra. Men who are old don't need Viagra. It's a natural thing for old men to lose virality. Time to sue FDA and end usage of this dangerous drug.