Abortion Pill Fight to Be Heard by One of Nation's Most Conservative Courts

[RandySF]

The latest battle over a widely used abortion drug is set to play out on Wednesday before a conservative appeals court in New Orleans that has become the testing ground for some of the most contentious policy fights in the nation.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will weigh in on the legal status of the medication, mifepristone, used in more than half of recent abortions in the United States.

“By virtually any measure, it is the most conservative appeals court in the country,” said Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas.

The court, which has jurisdiction over Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, is almost certain to be skeptical of steps the Food and Drug Administration has taken to ease access to mifepristone, part of a two-pill regimen used in medication abortion. It has long been at the center of high-profile challenges to measures backed by the Obama and Biden administrations, including gun restrictions and transgender rights, and the arrival of a wave of Trump appointees has pushed it to the leading edge of potent policy decisions.




https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/politics/abortion-pill-fifth-circuit-appeals.html

[JohnSJ]

1. Do they really want to overrule the FDA? Their ruling would apply to more than mifepristone

From anti-Vader’s, potentially any pharmaceutical product based on some conspiracy nut, not science

[Ilsa]

2. I think I'll join in the fight for the withdrawal of viagra.

Just to be a thorn in their sides.