A Texas Federal Court Could Block Access to a Key Abortion Drug Nationally

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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More than half of all abortions in the United States are performed with medication, according to the Guttmacher Institute. But a federal court case in Texas could block access to mifepristone, a key abortion drug, nationally. “Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA” contests the FDA’s approval of mifepristone in 2000 and regulation since. If federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk sides with the anti-abortion group, mifepristone would be pulled from the market — further reducing abortion options after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. We’ll take stock of the case, the projected impacts of losing this gold-standard abortion drug, and where abortion access in the U.S. stands, state by state. Guests: Michele Goodwin, Chancellor's professor, UC Irvine School of Law; author, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" Shefali Luthra, health reporter covering the intersection of gender and health care, The 19th, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.1	More than half of all abortions in the United States are performed with medication, according to the Guttmacher Institute. But a federal judge in Texas,
1:00.4	in a decision that's expected soon, could block access to a key abortion drug nationally.
1:06.5	We'll take stock of the case and what it would mean to lose this gold standard medication
1:10.3	eight months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
1:14.1	And we'll dig into why one Texas judge holds the power to decide this and what his record
1:18.9	has been on reproductive and other civil rights.
1:21.7	That's next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Marisa Lagos and Formina Kim. Typically, if you're inducing a
1:38.0	medication abortion, you take Muffapristone, the quote-unquote gold standard abortion drug,
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