Last week, a Trump-appointed Texas District Court judge ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take back its approval of mifepristone, a drug for inducing abortions, used safely in this country for 23 years. Despite abortion access being a winning issue with voters, the Republican Party is continuing to use legislation and right-wing judges to strip away bodily autonomy and the ability for Americans to make their own choices about their health care.
Erin Delaney, PPI’s Director of Health Care Policy, outlines the impact and consequences this decision has on the entire country in her latest post on Medium. She notes that with this latest ruling, 40 million more women could lose access to abortion care by removing a drug that has been proven safer than Tylenol or Viagra.
Erin writes, “Not only does it [the decision] abet the drive by Republican extremists to strip Americans of their reproductive rights, it sets a terrible precedent in which activist right-wing judges overrule the nation’s top health authorities for purely ideological reasons. Judge Kacsmaryk’s atrocious ruling hits a MAGA trifecta — at once undermining personal liberty, medical science, and the Constitution’s separation of powers.”
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