The abortion pill ruling.
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, mifepristone, the most commonly used method of abortion in the United States, was thrown into legal ambiguity after conflicting court rulings from two federal judges. In Texas, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk suspended federal approval of the drug, which first cleared the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000. Less than an hour later, U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, an Obama appointee in eastern Washington, released a nearly opposite order, related to a separate lawsuit, directing the FDA not to make any changes in the availability of the drug in 17 states where Democrats are suing to protect its use.
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| 1:04.9 | vacation there for Easter and Passover. And today we are jumping right into the deep end |
| 1:10.6 | with an addition on Mitha |
| 1:13.3 | Pristone and the decision to halt its use and potentially reverse its FDA approval by a federal |
| 1:22.4 | judge in Texas. Before we jump in, though, we're going to start off with some of the news we missed while we were on our short break. |
| 1:30.8 | First up, Robert F. Kennedy announced that he will run for president as a Democrat, joining self-help author Marion Williamson in challenging President Biden. |
| 1:40.0 | Senator Bob Casey, the Democrat from Pennsylvania, officially announced his plans to run for |
| 1:44.9 | re-election next year. Saudi Arabia formerly reestablished diplomatic relations with Iran. |
| 1:51.4 | A Maryland attorney general accused officials of covering up and failing to act in the sexual |
| 1:56.2 | abuse of at least 600 children at the archdiocese of Baltimore since the 1940s. The Supreme Court |
| 2:03.1 | declined to intervene in a decision that allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl to compete in track. |
| 2:08.7 | Separately, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged that he accepted paid vacations and gifts |
| 2:14.0 | over two decades without disclosing them. The U.S. economy added 236,000 non-farm jobs in |
| 2:20.8 | March about what economists expected. It was the slowest month of job growth since December of 2020. |
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