Red States Sue Feds To Block Abortion Pills By Mail

Courthouse News reports:

A coalition of three red states sued the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Health and Senior Services on Monday for approving the abortion pill mifepristone and allowing its sale and shipment to patients nationwide, including to states that have banned abortion.

In their complaint, Republican attorneys general representing Missouri, Kansas and Idaho rely on what they call precedent in the Texas-based case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, where this past April a Donald Trump-appointed federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the plaintiffs, suggesting the FDA’s initial approval of the drug more than two decades ago was based on political pressure.

“Unelected federal bureaucrats do not have the statutory authority to approve the shipment of these dangerous chemical abortion drugs in the mail,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey [photo above] said in a news release Monday.

Read the full article. The judge cited above, Andrew Kacsmaryk, a former lawyer for an anti-LGBTQ hate group, was exposed in April for failing to disclose millions in stock holdings. Kacsmaryk was previously exposed for failing to disclose viciously anti-LGBTQ interviews and acting to hide his authorship of an anti-abortion article ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing. The original lawsuit and today’s were specifically filed in his Texas district.

Red states sue feds to block abortion pill mail order sales

After a Supreme Court ruling stayed an injunction of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a coalition of Republican attorneys general hopes to demonstrate actual injuries.

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