Hearing scheduled for lawsuit that could force major abortion pill off market nationwide

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A federal judge in Texas will hear a case Wednesday targeting the decadeslong approval of a drug used for medication abortions, mifepristone.

first revealed the hearing was set for Wednesday, reporting Kacsmaryk delayed putting the date on the public docket to minimize possible threats and protests over the closely watched case. Kacsmaryk also asked attorneys not to publicly disclose details of the plans for the hearing, according to the newspaper.

Hearings are typically quickly placed on public court dockets, and delaying public notice is unusual. A coalition of media outlets, including the Amarillo Globe-News, part of the USA TODAY Network, filed a motion protesting the delay in public notice.the lawsuit lacks legal and scientific standing but have raised concerns that Judge Kacsmaryk may still rule on the side of the plaintiffs, striking down FDA approval of mifepristone.

"Clearly, overturning Roe v. Wade was not the end game for the anti-abortion movement," Lorie Chaiten, senior staff attorney at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, told USA Today in February.While the FDA may choose to restart the approval process, this could take years. The case will likely be appealed, landing it in the right-leaning Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. If the case is appealed again in federal circuit court, it may arrive before the U.S. Supreme Court.to shift to misoprostol-only protocols for medication abortions, and clinics have already begun ordering more misoprostol supplies.

Health experts say a misoprostol-only protocol for medication abortions is a safe and effective alternative to the two-step process using both mifepristone and misoprostol that is used in the U.S. While misoprostol has been used on its own for years for abortions around the world, studies show it is less effective than the two-step regimen.

 

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You mean … in an unprecedented hearing in which the plaintiffs have zero standing, a handpicked right wing Trump appointed religious zealot judge in Texas is poised to overturn 20+ years of use of an FDA Approved drug because … the GOP hates women. Fixed it for you!!!

When you put a political hack in robes you get judicial hash.

The case could force mifepristone off the market nationwide. This would dramatically alter access to medication abortion, which makes up over half of all U.S. abortions.

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