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| Two Federal Judges Issued Opposing Rulings on Abortion Pills. Here’s What’s Going On. | Two Federal Judges Issued Opposing Rulings on Abortion Pills. Here’s What’s Going On. |
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| The ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval 23 years ago of the abortion pill mifepristone has the potential to be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. | The ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval 23 years ago of the abortion pill mifepristone has the potential to be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. |
| But there are a lot of uncertainties — especially because a federal judge in Washington State issued a contradictory ruling less than an hour later saying the F.D.A. should do nothing to restrict the pill’s availability in most states that allow abortion. | But there are a lot of uncertainties — especially because a federal judge in Washington State issued a contradictory ruling less than an hour later saying the F.D.A. should do nothing to restrict the pill’s availability in most states that allow abortion. |
| So the situation is complicated. Here is what we know and what it could mean. | So the situation is complicated. Here is what we know and what it could mean. |
| Both rulings are preliminary injunctions, issued before the full cases have been heard. But the dueling injunctions set up a legal showdown that is likely to reach the Supreme Court. | Both rulings are preliminary injunctions, issued before the full cases have been heard. But the dueling injunctions set up a legal showdown that is likely to reach the Supreme Court. |
| The ruling by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee who has written critically about Roe v. Wade, declares the F.D.A.’s approval of mifepristone in 2000 to be invalid. It also suspends the F.D.A.’s subsequent decisions that expanded the use of mifepristone in terminating early pregnancies. | The ruling by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee who has written critically about Roe v. Wade, declares the F.D.A.’s approval of mifepristone in 2000 to be invalid. It also suspends the F.D.A.’s subsequent decisions that expanded the use of mifepristone in terminating early pregnancies. |
| Legal experts said Judge Kacsmaryk’s ruling appeared to be the first time that a court had acted to order that an approved drug be removed from the market over the objection of the F.D.A. If it stands, they said, it could have repercussions for the federal government’s authority to regulate other types of drugs. | |
| The ruling by Judge Thomas O. Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, an Obama appointee, orders the F.D.A. to maintain the status quo and blocks it from restricting the availability of mifepristone in the states that filed the lawsuit before that court. That lawsuit, filed by Democratic attorneys general, challenged restrictions the F.D.A. still imposes on the prescribing and dispensing of mifepristone. |