Over the course of about four hours of arguments, a federal judge in Texas asked questions that suggested he is seriously considering undoing the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a medication abortion drug and the agency’s moves to relax the rules around its use.



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Over the course of about four hours of arguments, a federal judge in Texas asked questions that suggested he is seriously considering undoing the US Food and Drug Administration's approval of a medication abortion drug and the agency's moves to relax the rules around its use.

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By Jen Christensen, CNN A lawsuit in a federal court in Texas may block access to mifepristone, a drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration that has been shown to be safe and effective for more than two decades. The lawsuit from anti-abortion advocates claims that the drug is not safe and that the FDA didn’t study it enough to approve it. Along with misoprostol, mifepristone is one of the drugs used for an abortion via medication, as …

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By Tierney Sneed Over the course of about four hours of arguments, a federal judge in Texas asked questions that suggested he is seriously considering undoing the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a medication abortion drug and the agency’s moves to relax the rules around its use. But the judge, US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, also indicated he was thinking through scenarios in whic…

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A federal judge in Texas asked questions that suggested he is seriously considering undoing the FDA's approval of a medication abortion drug.

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One of the sharpest questions from the judge was whether the anti-abortion activists could point to another analogous case when a court intervened in the way he is being asked to intervene here.

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