Thu Apr 13, 2023 – 5:44 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Prominent Democrats are urging the Biden administration to ignore a ruling by a federal judge blocking the sale of abortion-inducing drugs, prompting debate even among some liberals as to the president’s ability to defy the judiciary.
On April 7, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued an order suspending the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, finding the agency did not adequately investigate its long-term effects. The same day, Judge Judge Thomas Rice ruled that the pill should remain on the market in 15 states plus the District of Columbia.
The Biden administration challenged the ruling, and on Wednesday night a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals partially blocked Kacsmaryk’s decision, ruling that mifepristone should remain available but keeping suspended the administration’s approval of dispensing it via the mail.
Townhall reports that Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon have both urged the White House to simply ignore Kacsmaryk’s ruling, which would set a wide-ranging precedent sure to be exploited by both sides.
“I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling,” Ocasio-Cortez said,
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