The Department of Justice and the drug manufacturer Danco Laboratories have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency relief from a lower court decision restricting access to abortion pills.
Lawyers who filed a lawsuit challenging the FDA's approval of a popular abortion drug respond to critics who say filing the suit in Texas is judge shopping.
The Justice Department argues these restrictions will significantly limit access to mifepristone even in states where abortion is legal. Danco Laboratories told the Supreme Court that the lower courts decisions have "created regulatory chaos," requiring FDA to "effectuate a series of extensive approvals" to comply with the 5th Circuit's rollback.
Pro-life doctors and medical groups are challenging the FDA's approval of mifepristone, alleging in a lawsuit that the agency unlawfully approved mifepristone in 2000 and that the drug is unsafe. More than 5 million women in the United States have used Mifiprex to abort their pregnancies since it was approved in 2000, according to Danco. The drug is 97% effective in terminating early pregnancy, though approximately 3% of women who take it will "require surgical intervention for ongoing pregnancy, heavy bleeding, incomplete expulsion, or other reasons such as patient request."
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