08/18/2023
“Today the Fifth Circuit rightly required the FDA to do its job and to restore crucial safeguards for women and girls, including ending illegal mail-order abortion,” Hawley said during a virtual press conference. “The FDA will finally be made to account for the damage it has caused to the health of countless women and the rule of law by unlawfully removing almost every meaningful safeguard from the chemical-abortion drug regimen.”
The FDA’s decisions around approving brand-name Mifeprex in 2000, and then loosening restrictions on the pills in 2016 and 2021, were driven by politics, she said, “without regard to women’s health or the rule of law.””
-The National Review
This decision will be appealed and is not immediately in effect but this is a HUGE step in the correct direction.