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🗓️ 17 April 2023
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0:30.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, April 17th. I'm Nyla Blue. Here's what you need to know today, where the highest unemployment rates in the country are. |
0:43.0 | Plus, exactly how fast the world's fastest marathon runner is. But first, today's one big thing, the US Supreme Court and the abortion bill. |
0:58.0 | Another pivotal week for the US Supreme Court when it comes to abortion access. A ruling by the Supreme Court late on Friday has temporarily blocked lower court rulings restricting the abortion bill. That's Miva Pristone. But the Supreme Court stay is just until this Wednesday. |
1:15.0 | Axios's Orianna Gonzalez has been covering all the legal challenges around the abortion bill and is here with what happens after Wednesday. Hi, Orianna. |
1:23.0 | Hi, Nyla. Orianna, so the Supreme Court didn't issue an opinion. Justice Samuel Alito just ordered that the lower court rulings are on hold. Is that normal? |
1:33.0 | It's very normal. It's very procedural. The court has done this in the past. Justice has have issued state on rulings before that actually don't reflect how they end up ruling in the end. |
1:44.0 | However, in this particular case, so Samuel Alito was the justice that did the order. He did two things. First off was say that the lower court rulings are locked or stayed until Wednesday. And the other thing that he did was ask the anti abortion groups in the case. |
2:01.0 | The ones that had originally brought the lawsuit in Texas to reply to the emergency application that the Justice Department and the manufacturer of the first don't then go brought to the Supreme Court. |
2:13.0 | And they are required to reply by tomorrow afternoon. So what we're likely to see this week is first off a response from the anti abortion groups as to why they think Miva Pristone restrictions should be imposed. |
2:29.0 | And then at some point on Wednesday or in the next couple days will probably hear from the Supreme Court as to what they decide to do next. They could potentially bring their restrictions back or they could order the case back to the lower courts to decide. So we will really see what happens this week. |
2:46.0 | This has to deal with conflicting lower court rulings. You mentioned Texas. What's the latest with that one then? |
2:54.5 | The Texas ruling is the one that's related to the first case that we all heard about the anti abortion groups had brought in a case in Amarillo, Texas to Matthew Kexmerik. |
3:03.5 | And they had argued that the FDA approval of Miva Pristone was not properly done and that it should be taken away. |
3:09.5 | Kexmeric ultimately ruled that he was blocking the approval, meaning that Miva Pristone wouldn't be available even in states where abortion is protected. |
3:19.5 | But then there's also a court case in Washington state that said the opposite. |
3:24.5 | Exactly. People have been calling this the dueling rulings of abortion pills. So what we saw in the Washington case was democratic attorneys general are challenging the FDA. |
3:34.5 | And they're playing almost the opposite game. They were saying the restrictions that Miva Pristone has were unfair because the drug was deemed safe and effective. |
3:44.5 | In that case, a federal court again in Washington state said that the FDA could not roll back access to Miva Pristone because doing so would alter the status quo. |
3:55.5 | And the issue now for the FDA is that it's basically in between two conflicting orders and it has to obey both. |
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