Vice President Kamala Harris mistakenly claimed this week that a fake agency approved mifepristone, the abortion pill at the center of a major legal battle in the federal court system.
The gaffe took place when the vice president sat down for an interview with Noticias Telemundo that aired Friday evening. During the appearance, she discussed the district court ruling out of Texas earlier this month, when a judge suspended the Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of the drug, one of two commonly used pills for a nonsurgical abortion.
"On the mifepristone issue, it’s politicians finding a court, targeting a specific court that they thought would be helpful to them, to take a medication off the market, which was approved 20 years ago by the Federal Drug Administration," Harris told the outlet of the ruling, appearing to reference the FDA when she mistakenly said"Federal Drug Administration."
Kamala Harris refers to the"Federal Drug Administration," which does not exist pic.twitter.com/m9SB48icKiWhile President Joe Biden is known for his gaffe-prone nature, his vice president has had a number of verbal slip-ups of her own.Facing criticisms for her delay in visiting the southern border in the summer of 2021, despite being tapped as the administration's immigration czar, Harris said she hadn't"been to Europe," either.
Asked in July 2022 if the Democrats had failed voters by not codifying Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court overturned it last year, Harris offered a perplexing response, saying:"I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled. That’s why I do believe that we are living, sadly, in real unsettled times.
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