On Friday, conservative Judge Matthew Kasmeric suspended the FDA’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill, effectively banning the drug from being sold federally.
More than 300 executives from pharmaceutical and biotech companies, including Pfizer CEO Albert Burla, signed an open letter today calling for a federal judge’s decision in Texas to suspend the marketing authorization of the drug withdrawal pill mifepristone to be overturned. of pregnancy.
On Friday, conservative Judge Matthew Kasmeric suspended the abortion pill’s two-decade-old approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), effectively banning the drug from being sold at the federal level.
The ruling came after an appeal by anti-abortionists, ten months after the US Supreme Court’s historic decision that gave every US state the right to ban abortions on its own soil.
Judge Matthew Kasmeric’s decision undermines the FDA’s jurisdiction, the authors of the letter point out, adding that it ignores decades of scientific data and legal precedent.
Source :Skai
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