Fri Jan 27, 2023 – 11:16 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration has pledged to use federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to make abortion drugs available in all 50 states, even though the Supreme Court said that abortion is a state issue. The House of Representatives took a step in that direction last year with House Resolution 1434 purporting to “reaffirm” the FDA’s authority to force pro-life states to allow chemical abortions.
This is a very big issue when more than half of all abortions in America are done with abortion pills.
But can the FDA legally do this?
It is questionable whether the FDA has the necessary authority from Congress to force states to allow abortion drugs. Congress does not have the votes to do it itself, and using the FDA to do it may be considered an illegal administrative agency “workaround,” just like the government’s illegal OSHA COVID vaccine mandate that was rejected by the Supreme Court last year.
In fact, the FDA’s original approval process for the abortion drug is itself in question. According to a federal court lawsuit in Texas, the FDA illegally approved the abortion drug
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