Texas Judge Makes Abortion Pill Sales Illegal Nationwide

The only upside of this ruling will be watching pharmaceutical companies remove campaign funding from politicians supporting this YaHoo Texas judge and what he represents.

The industry uses FDA approvals and advise over 5-10+ years of development to decide to invest billions or not. If they can't rely on the FDA process because any scientifically illiterate judge might over turn it then this will be the end of drug development or at least in the US.

Companies will move HQ & development to countries with a rational regulatory & political environment based in science not Mullahs.

"Over 300 biotech and pharmaceutical industry executives, including Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) CEO Albert Bourla, signed an open letter on Monday calling for reversal of a federal judge's decision to suspend sales of the abortion pill mifepristone."

"We call for the reversal of this decision to disregard science, and the appropriate restitution of the mandate for the safety and efficacy of medicines for all with the FDA, the agency entrusted to do so in the first place," they wrote."

"The decision puts the entire industry at risk, the letter says, and sets a precedent for undermining the agency's authority to approve drugs, adding regulatory uncertainty that they warned would disincentivize investment in new treatments.

"You have the real potential of having medicines not being developed because it's far too expensive, or medicines that are currently approved being withdrawn because they are political," Levin told Reuters."

"Health policy and legal experts have said that if Kacsmaryk's unprecedented ruling is allowed to stand it could undermine confidence in FDA's authority to regulate drugs, severely weaken the agency, and hinder access to new treatments."

"If courts can overturn drug approvals without regard for science or evidence, or for the complexity required to fully vet the safety and efficacy of new drugs, any medicine is at risk for the same outcome as mifepristone," the letter said."

"This is a nightmare scenario for the industry," he said. "It's the single worst threat to the industry in over 50 years."

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-drugmakers-call-reversing-texas-abortion-pill-ruling-2023-04-10/

Pfizer, hundreds of US drugmakers call for reversal of Texas abortion pill ruling

Over 300 biotech and pharmaceutical industry executives, including Pfizer Inc CEO Albert Bourla, si...

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-drugmakers-call-reversing-texas-abortion-pill-ruling-2023-04-10/

Dear gop House leaders, instead of a war on woman, why aren't you implementing anything on the border? This was your nonstop mantra when you were in the minority. Where are your policies and control? This is a congressional issue, why aren't you doing anything about it?

There are plenty of inexpensive way to prevent pregnancy instead of abortion.

It's not just an abortion pill! Mifepristone is used in other ways that are not related to abortion, including helping women with miscarriage after the fetus has died.

How many women will suffer because of this ban? How many women will be forced to carry fetuses after death?

When will this one-sided war on women stop?

As a lawyer who graduated from a top law school and was admitted to the Bar in two jurisdictions I have read a lot of judicial decisions in my life. I have never read a decision as poorly reasoned and obviously biased in my life.  Despite the Judge's desperate efforts to invent a basis for standing, the plaintiffs did not have the kind of injury that entitled them to bring this case. The case should have been dismissed for lack of standing. The language used clearly shows that this Judge was steeped in anti abortion bias before this case came before him and, indeed, he was carefully selected by the plaintiffs to hear this case because of his personal views. The Judge took all of the plaintiffs assertions as fact, despite a complete lack of serious evidence.  Then the Judge placed his own biased opinion above that of the experts at the FDA and the countless women who have safely used this drug for more than two decades and decided the drug should be withdrawn. The pure arrogance and stupidity are staggering.  Let's be clear.  This Judge reached a "moral" decision, not a legal or medical one. He seeks to impose his moral judgement on the entire country. No drug is without side effects or risks.  (Has anyone really looked at the safety of all those ED meds men are popping?) The reality is, a surgical abortion is far more dangerous than a medical abortion, so unless the goal is to end all abortions, why would we ban a medication that is safer than the alternative? While the Judge makes the point that pregnancy is not an "illness", the reality is that women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth every day in this country. Some women are at higher risk than others and for them, a pregnancy is a potentially life threatening condition.  Some jurisdictions in this country have higher rates of maternal death than others.  In addition, this medication is commonly used to minimize the trauma and risks resulting from spontaneous miscarriages.  Spontaneous miscarriages are extremely common and if not resolved quickly, they can result in life threatening hemmorhage or sepsis.  The bottom line is there is absolutely  no evidence that this medication is particularly dangerous except to those rabidly opposed to abortion.  Taking a wider perspective on this ruling, do we really want Judges making decisions like this instead of actual medical experts?  I can guarantee you that the forced birth enthuisiasts will be coming for birth control next.  What if the political winds turn against vaccines as we've recently seen with Covid vaccines?  Should we have Judges deciding that people with HIV shouldn't get their medicines?  Politicans shouldn't be making medical decisions and neither should judges. This case is a disgrace and if the Courts, especially the Supreme Court, entertain this nonsense, we really need to rethink how our Courts are structured and how Judges are selected. 

This isn't an either or question. This pill taken unsupervised can be harmful to women. Don't their lives count? 

As has been over and over, this is a health issue between the woman and her doctor.  How does this affect others?  No one knows what a woman goes through when making this decision.  Is anyone willing to take this yet unborn child and raise it to adulthood?  Many of these women who find themselves pregnant have been raped, incest, or other violence happened to them.  No matter the reason, this is traumatic.  How does it affect the general public?  

How about getting rid if viagra instead.  Less men to get women/children pregnant!

Politicians must stay out of women's reproductive decisions.

Abortion fight was fought in the 70s and 80s. It does not need to be rehashed , especially with such steps as withdrawing a medicine that has been used for years without causing medical problems. Regression is not good.

Don't make them have a kid they cannot provide the love, care and respect to sprout them up as a Human Being!!

I support women's healthcare rights and oppose the ban on mifepristone. Action now, please!

I think it is about time to pass a law for forced casteration without consent of these men that can not leave their women alone.  If judges, that are primarily men in our country, can't get on the birth control pill bus they need to pass the forced castration without consent bill!  Or take away their Viagra, or something to inconvenience them for a change.

The Grievance Over Policy party will not stop until the citizens of this country are controlled like they are in Russia and China. We are a nation built on freedom and they have engaged in a campaign to restrict more freedoms every day.

REMOVE THAT JUDGE !

I'm a woman, not a walking womb! Keep your dirty laws off my body, and your unscientific crapola and noses away from what should be between my doctor and me, and nobody else!

First these idiots make so-called "Heartbeat" laws, where a swatch of pulsating cells that can't even pump blood qualify...Nevermind that there isn't even a BRAIN at that point, then they ban the safest and most effective method of getting rid of an unwanted pregnancy before those cells can start pulsating!

Ladies and others with uteri, the only way we're going to get these sausage heads  to stop trying to control our bodies is to VOTE THEIR IDIOTIC BEHINDS OUT OF THIER SEATS!

Those who don't possess a uterus shouldn't be legislating what those who have them can or can't do with them!

I  oppose this ruling!

Strongly oppose the otlawing of this medication.  Who the hell does this damn judge think he is.  He's not a medical expert, so his opinion is bogus, not to mention that it is purely political and not based on any legality.  Personal biases have no place on the bench, nor does political beliefs.  Stick to the law, and keep your damn nose out of medical decisions.

i wouldn't be the least surprised if, when this gets to the supreme court, they rule in texas' favor. so much for states being able to decide what their own state can do.

What is this insanity????  What is happening to fight this???

How can 1 man with no medical education decide to Ban a medication because he disagrees with its use? I cannot wait till someone starts a class action suit against these people for the long-term support of a child that they prevented from being aborted. They need to start an educational fund for the long-term education of all the children they will need to sponsor.

We may have turned into a third world country, but women are not third class citizens. As much as you wish we were. 

a Judge is not a doctor, or a scientist. rulings on such matters of safty need to rely on fact.

the fact is, this pill is safe, as is medical abortion. opinions are one thing, you can have yours...but law needs to be based in facts.

Limiting abortion access MURDERS WOMEN and doesn't save ANY lives!