Cory Booker Instagram – There’s a case before the Supreme Court that will have huge implications not just for reproductive rights but for Americans’ access to healthcare in general. The case has to do with mifepristone, a medication that doctors prescribe to induce an abortion. It’s how most abortions happen. It’s saved the lives of countless women facing pregnancy-related health complications.
The FDA first approved Mifepristone 24 years ago after a rigorous four-year process of scientific trials and analysis. The medicine has been used safely and effectively by countless women for more than two decades.
Then, last April, a one time anti-abortion activist who became a Trump-appointed federal judge cast aside decades of precedent and issued a ruling imposing a nationwide ban on Mifepristone, declaring that the FDA had improperly approved the drug almost a quarter century ago.
It’s not right that one unelected lower court judge with no scientific or medical background can be dictating health care policy for the entire nation.
This case is about way more than one drug. If this ban is allowed to stand, any judge anywhere in America can unilaterally decide to ban any medication of any kind they want. | Posted on 26/Mar/2024 18:48:09
