Thu Apr 13, 2023 – 11:01 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal appeals court has partially blocked a Texas judge’s ruling to suspend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the dangerous abortion drug mifepristone.
On Wednesday night, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to grant an emergency stay filed by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting that the drugs remain temporarily available pending ongoing litigation.
However, the three-judge panel also ruled that other aspects of the suspension order would remain in place, including the pause on regulations that allow mifepristone to be dispensed via mail. The agency’s 2016 Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for the drug may also be halted according to the Texas judge’s order.
Mifepristone acts as an abortifacient by preventing the hormone progesterone from reaching the developing baby, thereby ending his or her life. It’s most often taken alongside misoprostol, another drug that induces labor so that a woman can give birth to her dead child. The suspension order would only apply to mifepristone.
The original suspension order was given on Good Friday, April 7, by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Amarillo, Texas, who was appointed by
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