Biden admn vows to fight court rulings on abortion pill

After a conflicting court rulings over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone in US, the Biden administration has decided to fight it. The Attorney General has announced the justice department will file an appeal and seek an immediate stay of the decision. In a tweet, Biden said,"Vice Presidedt and I are committed to protecting a woman’s right to an abortion. Period."

We're going to fight it.

The Attorney General has announced @TheJusticeDept will file an appeal and seek an immediate stay of the decision.

And Congress must restore the protections of Roe v. Wade.@VP and I are committed to protecting a woman’s right to an abortion. Period.

— President Biden (@POTUS) April 8, 2023

For now, the drug the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 appeared to remain at least immediately available in wake of two separate rulings that were issued in quick succession by federal judges in Texas and Washington. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ordered a hold on federal approval of mifepristone in a decision that overruled decades of scientific approval. But that decision came at nearly same time that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, an Obama appointee, essentially ordered the opposite and directed U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the drug in at least 17 states where Democrats sued in an effort to protect availability.

The abortion drug has been widely used in the U.S. since securing FDA approval and there is essentially no precedent for a lone judge overruling the medical decisions of the Food and Drug Administration. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used for medication abortion in the United States, along with misoprostol, which is also used to treat other medical conditions for the last two decades.