The abortion drug mifepristone will remain available for now, but will not be allowed to be sent to patients by mail, and can only be used up to seven weeks into pregnancy, a federal appeals court ruled overnight Wednesday.
to strip mifepristone, which alongside misoprostol is used in more than half of all abortions performed in the US, of its Food and Drug Administration approval, first issued in 2000.did immediately.
The Fifth Circuit Court put the plaintiffs challenge to the 2000 approval on hold because too much time had passed, but ruled Kacsmaryk’s decision to undo the FDA’s more recent changes that began in 2016 — which extended the drug’s use into ten weeks of pregnancy, and allowed it to be delivered to patients by mail— could remain in place. The court has put those measures on hold.
The implications of this ruling could be far-reaching; Democrats and the drug makers have warned it could undercut how the country regulates medications all together. “First and foremost, when you turn upside down the entire FDA approval process, you’re not talking about just mifepristone,” Health and Human Services secretaryon CNN. “You’re talking about every kind of drug.
The mifepristone is not over. The appeals court still has to decide on the case, and the issue will likely be escalated to the Supreme Court.
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