A conservative federal judge in Texas could soon order the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its 22-year-old approval for a pill used in the most common form of abortion in the United States, or order the approval revoked outright.
Of the various potential rulings possible in the case involving the abortion pill mifepristone, either of those outcomes would be unprecedented judicial intervention in the agency's regulatory process.
Mifepristone is part of a two-drug regimen with misoprostol that accounts for more than half of U.S. abortions.The agency's role in determining mifepristone's future has gotten little notice in a court battle that has drawn widespread attention as the most consequential abortion case since the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established federal abortion rights.in Amarillo, Texas, anti-abortion groups asked U.S.
The process is often triggered by post-approval studies showing inefficacy, according to Harvard Law professor I. Glenn Cohen. That could mean refraining from any action to prevent continued mifepristone sales. Or, the FDA could go further and publicly state it would not take such action.
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