The future of the abortion pill in the United States will be at stake this Wednesday before an ultra-conservative magistrate who is being asked by opponents of abortion to suspend its authorization, 23 years ago, by the drug regulator.
Matthew Kacsmaryk, who served as a lawyer for a Christian organization before being appointed as a federal judge by former Republican President Donald Trump, will hear arguments from the parties in federal court in Amarillo, North Texas.
Complaint filed by doctors and anti-abortion groups
Then you can dictate your decision at any time in this case likely to have an impact as resounding as the sentence of the Supreme Court of the United States that dynamited, last June, the right to abortion.
In November, a coalition of doctors and anti-abortion groups sent him a complaint against the US Drug Administration (FDA), which they accuse of having authorized mifepristone (RU 486) 23 years ago, one of the two pills used for interruption pregnancy doctor. the pregnancy.
The plaintiffs accuse the FDA of having chosen “politics over science,” in approving a chemical that can create complications, and of having “exceeded its prerogatives.”
Pending consideration of the substantive arguments, they ask Judge Kacsmaryk to immediately suspend the authorization of mifepristone throughout the United States. Such a decision would be “devastating for women,” denounced the spokeswoman for the presidency, Karine Jean-Pierre, ten days ago.
Used millions of times since 2000
Since 2000, more than 5.6 million women have used the pill in the United States, and a tiny proportion (fewer than 1,500) have subsequently had complications without a link being established, according to the FDA. Today, the majority (53%) of pregnancy terminations are medical, a less intrusive and less expensive procedure than surgical abortions.
Since the Supreme Court of the United States returned their freedom to legislate to each State, about fifteen of them have prohibited IVG on their soil and abortion pills are not authorized there.
But pregnant women in these states can still travel to neighboring states to get the pills. Others get them discreetly by mail.
Source: BFM TV
