The United Nation바카라s top health official on Sunday called a court ruling, threatening the availability of a vital drug used in medication abortion 바카라not America." He also said that if necessary, he did not rule out defying the judge's order.
바카라We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,바카라 Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden's health secretary, told CNN's 바카라State of the Union.바카라
바카라We want, yes, that women continue to have access to a drug that's proven itself safe. Millions of women have used this drug around the world.바카라 He stressed that for now, women do have access to the abortion medication mifepristone after a federal judge in Texas, Donald Trump-appointee Matthew Kacsmaryk, put his ruling from Friday on hold for a week so federal officials could file a challenge.
The drug was approved in 2000 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is overseen by the Health and Human Services Department headed by Becerra. Biden said his administration would fight the Texas ruling. Kacsmaryk's 67-page order gave the government seven days to appeal.
바카라We intend to do everything to make sure it's available to them not just in a week, but moving forward, period, because mifepristone is one of the safest and most effective medicines that we have seen over the last 20 years to help women with their health care, especially abortion care,바카라 Becerra said.
Asked whether he might recommend that the FDA ignore a ban, Becerra said, 바카라Everything is on the table." There is uncertainty about access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the United States following two separate and conflicting court rulings in Texas and Washington over the legality of mifepristone.
Kacsmaryk's decision ordering a hold on federal approval of mifepristone overruled decades of scientific approval. But a ruling at nearly the same time in Washington state from that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, a Barack Obama appointee, directed U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the drug in at least 17 states where Democrats sued in an effort to protect availability.
Becerra said Kacsmaryk's order could have dire ramifications for the legality of any FDA-approved drug, such as vaccines, insulin, or new Alzheimer's drugs coming onto the market because it seeks to 바카라turn upside down바카라 the entire FDA approval process.
The former CBecerra said Kacsmaryk's order could have dire ramifications for the legality of any FDA-approved drug, such as vaccines, insulin, or new Alzheimer's drugs coming onto the market because it seeks to 바카라turn upside down바카라 the entire FDA approval process.alifornia attorney general acknowledged a 바카라good chance바카라 that the case will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court, which last year overturned Roe v. Wade and curtailed access to abortion across the country.
바카라If a judge decides to substitute his preference, his personal opinion for that of scientists and medical professionals, what drug isn't subject to some kind of legal challenge? So we have to go to court,바카라 he said.
바카라What you saw by that one judge in that one court, in that one state, that's not America,바카라 Becerra added. America goes by the evidence. America does what's fair. America does what is transparent and we can show that what we do is for the right reasons, Becerra said stressing liberty and equal rights for women.
(With PTI inputs)
