Congressional Democrats urge reversal of district court docket ruling on mifepristone

WASHINGTON — Greater than 250 congressional Democrats have filed a transient urging an appeals court docket to reverse a Texas federal choose’s resolution to droop the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion tablet.

In an emergency order, the U.S. Supreme Court docket in April issued a keep, that means the abortion tablet often called mifepristone will stay obtainable all through america whereas the lawsuit over its approval works its method by way of the appeals course of.

Within the transient filed Monday with the fifth Circuit Court docket of Appeals in New Orleans, lawmakers argued that the choice by Decide Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of Texas will not be primarily based in legislation and poses a well being danger to pregnant sufferers if they’re denied entry to mifepristone.

They added that it might additionally threaten entry to different drugs which were accredited by FDA’s drug course of.

“The implications of the district court docket’s treatment might lengthen far past mifepristone, for it undermines the science-based, expert-driven course of that Congress designed for figuring out whether or not medicine are protected and efficient,” the 253 lawmakers — 50 senators and 203 Home members — wrote.