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Escalation about the abortion pill: The dispute is likely to affect the US presidential election. Before that, it’s the Supreme Court’s turn.
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights last summer after nearly half a century, people spoke militant opponents of abortion just an intermediate step in the struggle for unborn life. Her declared goal: the next thing to do was to end “death by mail”.
This refers to around 5.6 million administrations since 2000 in the United States Double pill mifepristone/misoprostol. It enables an officially approved medical abortion up to the tenth week of pregnancy, which is widely classified by doctors as harmless.
Abortion pill: right-wing conservative judge as standard-bearer of opponents
Until now, women have not had to go to a doctor’s office to get the drug. It will be sent after telephone consultation or video telephony. In 1500 cases were according to the FDA complications recorded without a demonstrable connection to the drug being established.
One appointed by then-US President Donald Trump right-wing federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, has now risen to become the standard-bearer of the minority that wants to see abortions of this kind completely prevented in the USA.
Government appeals to the Supreme Court
Matthew Kacsmaryk has made himself the FDA censor in his ban order; devoid of any technical expertise. The FDA approved the pill over 20 years ago after extensive testing. According to the government in Washington, his 60-page argument, according to which mifepristone poses considerable risks, is almost identical in its activist diction to advances by anti-abortion organizations like the Guttmacher Institute.
Curious: At the same time, a federal judge in the democratically governed state of Washington had decided, contrary to Kacsmaryk, that mifepristone must continue to be available in around 20 states. In order to ensure the care of women seeking help, for whom medical abortions are almost without exception prohibited by regional laws after the sixth week in well over half of the states, the responsible governors in California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan have Inside emergency supplies of said abortion pills im million amount created.
No proper drug approval decisions?
Mifepristone, known in Germany as Mifegyne, inhibits the hormonal effect of progesterone, which maintains pregnancy. This opens the cervix. The embryo detaches from the uterus. Misoprostol, taken a few days later, causes the uterus to contract. Similar to one miscarriage the pregnancy tissue is shed.
Because Judge Kacsmaryk only had a few days to appeal, the Justice Department in Washington responded immediately. Minister Merrick Garland appealed to the New Orleans Circuit Court of Appeals to request that the ban be overturned.
Not without affecting the mood ahead of the presidential elections
It has now been provisionally decided there that the pill can be used with restrictions until final legal clarification continue to prescribet may be. But: Women have to go to the doctor personally for this. And after the seventh week of pregnancy, the drug is prohibited.
Justice Minister Garland sees this as an unreasonable complication compared to previous practice. He also considers the new time limit to be arbitrary. The Democrat therefore has the Supreme Court in Washington at one urgent decision pushed.
Late consequence of the Trump era: Conservative list of the court
The final dispute settlement authority has received a nominal conservative list of 6:3 votes due to the selection of personnel in the presidency of Donald Trump. It is unclear how the body, which has recently suffered a significant loss of credibility, will decide, but it can have a significant impact on the political mood in front of the Presidential Elections 2024 have.
A large majority of the population has already rejected the verdict from last summer. This would make the United States Patchwork: In many regions there is a de facto ban on abortion. In others, abortion is still legal.
Abortion tourism as a result of legal uncertainty
This has been leading to a for months abortion tourism. Socially disadvantaged women in particular, often Afro-American women, cannot afford it. They are, say trade associations, dependent on the mailing of the abortion pill. More than 70 percent of Americans reject restrictions passed by a 2-1 vote in the New Orleans Circuit Court of Appeals.
It is also about the approval process of the FDA. 400 top representatives of American pharmaceutical and biotech companies have vehemently warned that provincial judge Kacsmaryk’s decision could set a precedent. The approval of medicines should never be exposed to the religious and ideological views of individual judges. If the industry can no longer rely on the legal certainty of the FDA approval processes, research in the health sector as a whole is at risk.
Florida passes tougher abortion laws
For the republican the topic is dangerous. Abortion restrictions cost her important votes in last fall’s midterm congressional elections. Just recently, a conservative judge candidate for the regional constitutional court in the important state of Wisconsin lost to a democratic pro-abortion candidate.
The next victim could be Florida governor be Ron DeSantis. Trump’s rival for the 2024 presidential nomination just signed legislation legalizing abortion in the Sunshine State penalty after the sixth week puts. “If he wins the candidacy,” say analysts in Washington, “the penalty will follow in the 2024 election.”
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