No Mifepristone Unturned
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Justice Department has appealed a Texas judge's decision that suspends the FDA's nationwide approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Meanwhile, a separate ruling in Washington state would bar the agency from taking the medication off the market in at least 17 states.
The Pentagon has launched an investigation after highly classified military documents were leaked online in recent weeks. The materials show sensitive information about the war effort in Ukraine, as well as how the U.S. is spying on some of its allies.
And in headlines: ousted Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones was reinstated to the state legislature, Israel's defense minister officially got his job back, and President Biden hinted at his plans for 2024 during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 11th. I'm Josie Duffy-Race. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Trayvell Anderson and this is what a day, |
| 0:12.2 | where if something weird happened on HBO Sunday night, |
| 0:15.2 | it's actually none of our business. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, well I actually have many things to say. |
| 0:20.7 | None of them will be set on this podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | But you only got like 48 hours or so and then we're letting it wrap. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah, I will be talking. |
| 0:30.9 | On today's show, one of the two expelled Tennessee lawmakers |
| 0:34.3 | is already back on the job. |
| 0:36.0 | Plus, President Biden may have unexpectedly announced |
| 0:39.7 | that he's running for reelection. |
| 0:41.2 | But first, on Friday, Judge Matthew Kesmerick, |
| 0:44.1 | a right-wing activist judge in Texas, |
| 0:46.4 | suspended the FDA's approval of Mithapristone, |
| 0:49.3 | one of the two medications used in more than half of all abortions in the US. |
| 0:53.7 | The ruling is both expected and still shocking, |
| 0:57.2 | given that a judge would suddenly make Mithapristone unavailable |
| 1:00.4 | when it has been on the market for over 20 years. |
| 1:03.6 | And soon after a judge in Washington state issued a contrary ruling |
| 1:07.3 | that prevented the FDA from making changes |
| 1:09.6 | to Mithapristone's accessibility in 17 states in Washington, D.C., |
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