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  It's the Trump way.  Keep criming until someone stops you, betting that they won't.  When caught, cry witch hunt and tie things up in the courts.
context: How can one state judge take away access from the whole fn country? This shouldn't be possible. Can we please sell Texas to Mexico now? >
  
  They’re challenging the FDA approval of the drug. Without that, it’s not legal to sell in the US. >
  
  Can someone please explain how in the fuck that is legal? I am getting my PhD in sociology but I have worked for public health departments and I am working on analyzing big hospital databases and examining drug studies. I legitimately don’t understand how someone with out ANY medical understanding can challenge something as complicated as an FDA approval. I think there have been cases where the fda fucked up but it’s nothing like what is being suggested. >
  
  This is America where you can sue anybody for anything.  Reactionary Republican judges is why this approach is successful. >
  
  One judge should not be able to ban an FDA approved medication. >
  
  An FDA approved drug with a couple decades of good efficacy and safety data no less. >
  
  Used for much more than abortions. Helped me shed my miscarriage (empty egg sack) after VASECTOMY... One of my friends almost died from a missed miscarriage, so I was glad to be able to take it. It was terrible, but at least  my husband was caring for our young children. Can't imagine having to have waited for it to happen "naturally". >
  
  What's wild is that all mifepristone does is tell your body to stop maintaining the uterus lining, which is exactly the same thing that happens in a "natural" miscarriage. In fact, it's something that happens to roughly half of all pregnancies anyway. >
  
  I am aware. I still wish I would have gotten a D&C instead.... >
  
  
  But now, a coalition led by the anti-abortion rights group Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Texas asking a judge to reverse that approval.
  
  Doesn’t it strike anyone how Orwellian it is, that a group with “freedom” in its name seeks to control and dictate medical access to over 50% of the US population? >
  
  It’s done on purpose. Make the name confusingly close to another, well respected org to scam people, or make the name the exact opposite of what they stand for. >
  
  See: National Socialists >
  
  This ruling could pull mifepristone off the market. This is commonly known as the "abortion pill" (though it is also used for treating Cushing's Disease).
  Before the fall of Roe, medication abortions accounted for 54% of all abortions. I can't find data yet for after (as it has only been a little over 6 months), but I feel confident that number is considerably higher now.
  While surgical abortions will still be available in some states, this will increase demand on already overloaded clinics to the point that they will be functionally unavailable. This decision will rapidly accelerate the number of women dying, and we will see an explosion of poverty, crime, child abuse and homelessness as more people unable to afford children are forced to have them. >
  
  Illinois just passed a law protecting doctors for prescribing mifepristone to out of state patients. This will be moot now. That judge is a rabid forced birther. >
  
  This could actually pull mifepristone off the market. They're going after the FDA approval itself. There would be nothing to prescribe. >
  
  If this happens, and it’s no longer medically approved by the FDA, and also not a controlled substance - what’s going to prevent websites selling it/giving it to whoever they want? For example, you can go to any number of websites and buy “research chemicals”, etc. I know for a fact that I’ve seen RU486. Another half baked idea from these donkeys.
  Or what’s going to stop a legal state from shipping to a red state hell hole? Wouldn’t that be protected by the 10th amendment and the Postal Clause? It doesn’t need to be approved by the FDA. Cannabis isn’t approved by the FDA for any medical use, either. >
  
  Texas conservative politicians inflict so much needless pain and suffering, in their own state and beyond.  smh >
  
  It kind of sometimes makes me rethink whether people making decisions like this or legislation designed to target an “out” group should have no accountability besides potentially losing a future election. Lately, a lot of stuff going on are blatant civil rights violations but people are doing them anyway and let the slow wheels of the courts figure it out.