Lawyers Spar Before Judge Over Rescinding of Federal Approval of Abortion Pill

NYT HEALTH: Lawyers Spar Before Judge Over Rescinding of Federal Approval of Abortion Pill
By Pam Belluck and Allison McCann
Section: Health
Source: New York Times
Published Date: March 15, 2023 at 02:00AM

The judge said he would decide soon whether to issue a preliminary injunction ordering the F.D.A. to withdraw its approval of the drug or wait for the full trial.

AMARILLO, Texas — The first hearing in a closely watched lawsuit seeking to overturn federal approval of a widely used abortion pill concluded Wednesday without a ruling, after more than four hours of pointed and emphatic arguments by both sides.
Lawyers for the anti-abortion groups and physicians who had filed the suit claimed that the abortion pill was unsafe and that the Food and Drug Administration had made mistakes in approving it.
Lawyers from the Department of Justice, which is representing the F.D.A., cited evidence that the medication, mifepristone, was extremely safe, and contended that the plaintiffs did not have any legal standing to even file the lawsuit because none of them could show that the F.D.A. approval had caused them harm.

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