A federal appeals court in Louisiana is scheduled to hear arguments in a case that could help decide the future availability of what is now the most commonly used abortion pill in the U.S.
what he called"evidence indicating FDA faced significant political pressure" to approve the drug more than two decades ago.of Kacsmaryk's order to the 5th Circuit, arguing the ruling “upended decades of reliance by blocking FDA’s approval of mifepristone and depriving patients of access to this safe and effective treatment, based on the court’s own misguided assessment of the drug’s safety.
The government also argued that pulling a drug's approval after more than two decades would cause tumult in the pharmaceutical industry."Allowing plaintiffs to challenge mifepristone’s approval at this late date, after the drug has been on the market for over two decades, would be profoundly disruptive," the lawyers argued.
The Supreme Court weighed in on April 21, saying the status quo should remain in place until the appeals process plays out in the 5th Circuit, meaning that for now access to mifepristone is the same as it was before Kacsmaryk's ruling. The panel at Wednesday's hearing consists of different judges from the ones who took up the emergency application last month. Two of the judges — Cory Wilson and James Ho — were nominated by former President Donald Trump, while the third, Jennifer Walker Elrod, was nominated by former President George W. Bush.
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