US Government will appeal the suspension of the use of the abortion pill before the Supreme Court

This Thursday, the United States Government announced that will appeal the suspension of the use of the abortion pill before the Supreme Court. This decision would follow the Justice Department’s request to freeze the sentence of Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Texas federal judge who suspends the use of mifepristone, with which a large part of the abortions in the country have been performed. “The district court’s extraordinary and unprecedented order must be stayed pending appeal,” authorities said in a court filing addressed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, April 10.

If the sentence continues, the medicine “could stop being available nationwide from midnight this Friday“, according to CNN.

As you remember, the past friday april 7Judge Kacsmaryk rescinded Food and Drug Administration approval (FDA, for its acronym in English) of mifepristone. “If it goes into effect, that court’s ruling will frustrate the FDA’s scientific judgment and seriously harm women (…) This damage would be felt throughout the country, since mifepristone is legally used in all states,” he said. the Department.

For his part, the President Joe Biden vowed to fight the rulingwhich he called “the next big step toward the national abortion ban that Republican elected representatives have promised to make into law in the United States.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also joined in, calling the judge’s decision an “assault on the authority of the FDA.” In addition, she warned that this could “open doors for other medications to be flagged and denied to people who need them.”

Before Kacsmaryk issued the ruling, a Washington state judge, Thomas Rice, ruled that access to the pill should be preserved, as it is “safe and legal.” With this duel of legal opinions, the issue is more likely to end up before the Supreme Courtas the US government wishes.

With information from AFP.

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