Supreme Court took the government’s and industry’s appeals while denying the Plaintiff’s cross appeals.
I agree with the article, that the Supreme Court will save face by using the issue of standing to dispose of the mess that Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk created. They will deny the Plaintiff’s standing and moot the case, thus restoring full access to abortion drugs nationwide.
The conservative Justices realize the implications of allowing any crank to challenge FDA drug certifications and the implication of allowing courts rather than professionals to certify drugs.
They will just go about it in the most face saving way possible.
According to the doctors, some patients who had taken mifepristone to terminate a pregnancy went on to later suffer “torrential bleeding,” which was upsetting for the doctors to witness. They also argued that other doctors were forced to perform surgical abortions after patients experienced complications from taking mifepristone, and that doing so went against the doctors’ personal beliefs.
Torrential bleeding is suffering. If this were any other drug it would have been recalled.
There are appeals to emotion and then there are facts. The “studies” of mifepristone side effects that the lower court used In ruling to overrule the FDA have been withdrawn due to flaws in methodology.
