Florida and Texas launch 'legal attack' in push to restrict abortion medication nationally

Texas & Florida Challenge FDA Approval of Abortion Drugs

If the states succeed in court, mail-order distribution of the drugs could be halted. The post Texas & Florida Challenge FDA Approval of Abortion Drugs appeared first on Texas Scorecard.

Florida and Texas launch 'legal attack' in push to restrict abortion medication nationally

Conservative states are uniting to push a national ban against one of the most common and safe forms of abortion.Florida and Texas have filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its approval of mifepristone, joining two other lawsuits filed by Missouri and Louisiana in the past few months. The suits challenge not only the FDA's approval of the abortion medication, but also its policies allowing the pill to be delivered …

Texas, Florida sue FDA over abortion pill, claiming policies have put ‘women and girls in harm’s way’

(The Lion) — Texas and Florida are suing the Food and Drug Administration, arguing its approval and deregulation of abortion pills “have placed women and girls in harm’s way.” Chemical abortions, which account for nearly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. according to the Guttmacher Institute, require taking a two-drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol. “The former starves the child to death by blocking progesterone receptors in the uteru…