A Threat to Abortion Pills. Plus, the U.S. Shares Secrets

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In 2000, the F.D.A. approved the medication abortion drug mifepristone. Now a federal judge in Texas is set to rule on a case filed by anti-abortion groups urging the agency to revoke its approval of mifepristone and the other main drug used for medication abortion in the United States. Abortion via medication has become increasingly common and now accounts for more than half of the nation’s abortions. Plus, the Biden administration has started talking publicly about its intelligence when it comes to China, breaking with a long tradition of keeping U.S. secrets close to the chest. The secretary of state, the director of the C.I.A. and even the president himself have made statements on TV expressing concern over China’s plans to help Russia in the war in Ukraine. Guest: Pam Belluck, a health and science correspondent for The New York Times. Julian E. Barnes, a national security correspondent for The Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernici, and I'm Michael Borgum.
0:06.8	This is The Daily.
0:10.0	Today, two stories.
0:16.4	First, my colleague Pam Bellock on why any day now, a federal judge in Texas could issue
0:22.5	an order to ban the pill used in more than half the abortions across the country.
0:27.4	And, Julian Barnes goes inside the Biden administration's plan to publicize secret
0:34.2	intelligence to ensure that China never enters the war in Ukraine on behalf of Russia.
0:43.3	It's Wednesday, March 1st.
0:49.2	All eyes are on the state of Texas where a federal district judge's opinion is expected
0:53.5	sooner than a case that could impact reproductive rights again.
0:57.0	Here, a group of anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations are suing the FDA, challenging
1:02.6	the approval of mythoprex, generically known as miffoprystone, part of a two drug regimen
1:07.8	commonly used for abortions.
1:09.6	The result, if you win, is that abortion access will be significantly limited.
1:14.6	Is that the goal of this lawsuit?
1:16.2	No, the goal of this lawsuit is to prick American women and girls from dangerous chemical
1:20.3	abortion drugs.
1:21.3	This is essentially a backdoor national abortion ban.
1:24.9	And what I mean by that is this affects states like California, New York, Illinois, Minnesota,
1:30.6	Colorado that have taken some of these.
1:31.8	When you allow male-order abortion drugs, like the FDA has done, you get these dangerous
1:36.4	chemical abortion drugs in the mail without ever seeing an abortion is even in person.
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