A federal judge in Texas on Friday suspended US approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, one of the two drugs commonly used for medication abortions, in a closely watched case brought by anti-abortion activists.

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A letter signed by senior executives of pharmaceutical and biotech companies condemned a ruling by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk that invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/health/abortion-ruling-pharma-executives.html

Americans already buy mifepristone from overseas, and his ruling "applies to just mifepristone, not misoprostol," she adds.

Source: https://theweek.com/briefing/1022533/can-the-fda-just-ignore-the-texas-judges-abortion-pill-ban

Americans already buy mifepristone from overseas, and his ruling "applies to just mifepristone, not misoprostol," she adds.

Source: https://theweek.com/briefing/1022533/can-the-fda-just-ignore-the-texas-judges-abortion-pill-ban

And advocates had feared that a legal stalemate over access to the so-called abortion pill, mifepristone, would end much the same way, before the high court opted late last week to maintain the status quo -- for the time being.

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And there is some sign that the Supreme Court may have some issue with Kacsmaryk’s ruling too — the justices decided to preserve some access to mifepristone while the litigation continues.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/25/mag-tsai-ziegler-movementjudges-00102758

Anti-abortion groups request that a federal Texas court reverse the FDA’s clearance of mifepristone completely and take the medication off the market in a separate lawsuit.

Source: https://www.chiangraitimes.com/health/new-lawsuit-filed-over-u-s-state-restrictions-on-abortion-pills/

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court preserved access to the abortion pill mifepristone for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be used and said it could not be dispensed by mail.

Source: https://time.com/6271480/federal-appeals-mifepristone-abortion-drug-texas/

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on March 16, 2022.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230419-france-risks-abortion-pill-shortage-as-us-stocks-up-amid-legal-battle

Currently, mifepristone is used in over half the abortions performed in the United States.

Source: https://www.nationalmemo.com/abortion-restrictions-2659756482

CVS and Walgreens immediately announced they would apply for certification to dispense mifepristone.

Source: https://kiowacountypress.net/content/abortion-pill-pipeline-increases-availability-red-states

Danco, which solely manufactures mifepristone, did note that it would have to shut down if the 2000 approval was overturned.

Source: https://ncnewsline.com/2023/04/13/appeals-court-rules-that-abortion-pill-can-stay-on-the-market-but-limits-access/

Doctors and patients fear mifepristone could be pulled off the market when the legal wrangling ends.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/us/abortion-pill-legal-challenge-threatens-miscarriage-care/article_8ef46e2b-228e-5ae5-8f4d-3a5315afd044.html

Doctors like Brown, who is based in Illinois, are hearing from more fearful patients worried about how safe or how effective mifepristone is or how well an only misoprostol alternative could work.

Source: https://www.denver7.com/-40

Essentially, if the Texas judge bans mifepristone, he will require every medication abortion patient to use a different regimen for purely political reasons.

Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/abortion-pill-ban-texas-mifepristone-misoprostol.html?via=rss

Even if the appeals court rules to restrict or revoke approval of mifepristone, the federal government will most likely appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Source: https://kiowacountypress.net/content/appeals-court-judges-embrace-anti-abortion-speculation

Even if the court orders the FDA to withdraw its approval of mifepristone, it’s possible that these drugs will continue to be legally available in the days, weeks, and even months after the opinion comes down.

Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/wednesday-abortion-pill-hearing-texas-chaos.html?via=rss

For context, mifepristone is the first of two drugs used in a drug-induced abortion.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/09/texas-lawsuit-could-see-abortion-pills-taken-off-the-market/

For now, mifepristone remains accessible because Kacsmaryk gave the federal government seven days to appeal his ruling.

Source: https://www.1310kfka.com/abc-news/health/04/federal-judge-bans-abortion-pill-what-the-ruling-means-for-women-across-the-country/

Having a medical abortion involves taking two tablets, with mifepristone being the first of these.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mifepristone-ruling-supreme-court-scotus-abortion-b2324106.html