More Attempts by Conservatives to Control a Woman's Body

Yet another ruling from a TX conservative federal judge is expected as early as today on the sale of mifepristone anywhere in the US. If he does, it's another win for the religious right to enforce their beliefs on every woman of child bearing years in the country.

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Federal judges in Texas have delivered time and again for abortion opponents. They upheld a state law that allows for $10,000 bounties to be placed on anyone who helps a woman get an abortion; ruled that someone opposed to abortion based on religious beliefs can block a federal program from providing birth control to teens; and determined that emergency room doctors must equally weigh the life of a pregnant woman and her embryo or fetus. Now abortion rights advocates — galvanized by the reversal of Roe v. Wade — are girding for another decision from a Texas courtroom that could force the FDA to remove a widely used abortion pill from pharmacies and physicians’ offices nationwide. The wide-ranging lawsuit, brought by a conservative Christian legal group, argues that the FDA’s approval process more than two decades ago was flawed when it authorized the use of mifepristone, which stops the development of a pregnancy and is part of a two-drug regimen used in medication abortions. “The FDA has one job, which is just to protect Americans from dangerous drugs,” said Denise Harle, senior counsel with the Alliance Defending Freedom, part of a conservative coalition that brought the suit in federal district court in Amarillo, Texas. “And we’re asking the court to remove that chemical drug regimen until and unless the FDA actually goes through the proper testing that it’s required to do.” A decision in the case was expected as soon as Friday. If successful, the lawsuit would force federal officials to rescind mifepristone’s approval, and manufacturers would be unable to ship the drug anywhere in the United States, including to states like California, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New York where abortion remains legal.

Mifepristone has been used safely in France since 1987 and the US since 2000. It is listed as an "essential drug" by the World's Health Org., approved by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Yet the lawsuit claims it's a 'dangerous drug' which is clearly untrue. These groups won't stop until they reduce a woman's value to primarily a baby making machine.

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