Monday, April 10, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 10 April 2023
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Monday briefing: Abortion pill rulings; sea level rise; Jon Rahm’s Masters win; next year’s total solar eclipse; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Two judges release conflicting rulings on a key abortion pill. |
| 0:06.0 | We also have an update from Tennessee where two black lawmakers were expelled from the statehouse. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Jeff Pierre and this is the seven from the State House. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Jeff Pierre, and this is the Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:15.8 | It's Monday, April 10th. |
| 0:17.7 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. First up, there were two conflicting rulings on an abortion pill. A judge in Texas suspended |
| 0:30.2 | FDA approval of Miffer Pristone on Friday night. |
| 0:33.4 | Shortly after that, a judge in Washington state |
| 0:36.0 | reached the opposite conclusion in a separate lawsuit. |
| 0:39.2 | He determined that Miffer Pristone should remain available |
| 0:41.8 | in DC and the 17 states that file the lawsuit seeking to protect medication abortion. |
| 0:47.0 | Miffer Pristone is one of two pills used in the most common abortion method in the US. |
| 0:52.0 | The FDA has repeatedly found that it's safe and |
| 0:55.2 | effective. The rulings have created confusion even in the states where abortion is legal. |
| 1:00.8 | The Texas decision won't go into effect for seven days. |
| 1:04.0 | So until then, nothing changes. |
| 1:06.0 | After that, it's much more complicated, and clinics are scrambling to figure out their next steps. |
| 1:11.0 | We can expect an appeal of the Texas ruling which also has |
| 1:14.5 | implications for the FDA and its authority. Eventually these decisions will |
| 1:19.4 | probably end up before the Supreme Court. Number two, dozens of classified intelligence documents have been leaked online. |
| 1:30.0 | The files started surfacing last week. |
| 1:32.0 | They appear to come at least in part from the Pentagon, |
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