Friday night, two federal judges handing down conflicting decisions on the abortion pill mifespristone, an anti-abortion Trump-appointed judge in Texas halting the 23-year-old FDA approval of the drug, while a judge in Washington state ordered the FDA to maintain the status quo on the abortion pill in 17 states where the attorneys general had brought a lawsuit, including the District of Columbia.
And I think what we are really seeing are the second, third and fourth dominoes falling as a result not just of the Dobbs decision, but of the Supreme Court’s decision a year prior to that to let Texas’s S.B. 8 take effect on the shadow docket. Those decisions cumulatively have sent a signal to conservative judges across the country that they can behave in any manner they choose when it comes to restricting reproductive autonomy.
These decisions out of Texas and the actions taken in Iowa are lawless, and we need to call them lawless. It’s good that the Democratic attorneys general filed the lawsuit in Washington as a countermeasure, because what we have now is a full picture of what trying to
— source democracynow.org | Apr 10, 2023