{"id":1912365,"date":"2023-04-10T02:56:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T06:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-health-secretary-suggests-ignoring-court-order-against-abortion-drug-is-on-the-table\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T03:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T07:04:47","slug":"biden-health-secretary-suggests-ignoring-court-order-against-abortion-drug-is-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-health-secretary-suggests-ignoring-court-order-against-abortion-drug-is-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Health Secretary Suggests Ignoring Court Order Against Abortion Drug Is \u2018On the Table\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-health-secretary-suggests-ignoring-court-order-against-abortion-drug-is-on-the-table%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1912365&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0410\/dc56bea6-c841-4185-bba0-28549a2662ab\/audio.mp3?length=3162861&#038;duration=264\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said Sunday that the Biden administration is considering defying a conservative federal judge\u2019s order that suspends the approval of mifepristone, the nation\u2019s most widely used abortion drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,\u201d Becerra said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d of the ruling issued Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. \u201cWe want, yes, that women continue to have access to a drug that\u2019s proven itself safe. Millions of women have used this drug around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kacsmaryk, who was appointed to the Northern District of Texas by President Donald Trump in 2019, ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put a hold on its approval of mifepristone while a civil lawsuit over the medication\u2019s safety proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>Mifepristone received FDA approval in 2000 alongside another drug called misoprostol.<\/p>\n<p>In a typical chemical abortion, the pregnant woman first takes mifepristone to block the hormone progesterone and thereby deprive the unborn child of nutrients needed to stay alive, and then takes misoprostol to induce labor to expel the dead child.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed by conservative advocacy group Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, accused the FDA of failing to study the safety of those drugs under the labeled conditions of use, disregarding the potential negative effects the hormone-blocking regimen has on pregnant girls, and removing the few safeguards that were in place. Kacsmaryk found those arguments plausible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Court does not second-guess FDA\u2019s decision-making lightly,\u201d he wrote in the decision (<a href=\"https:\/\/adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net\/files\/AHM-MPI-Decision.pdf\">pdf<\/a>). \u201cBut here, FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns\u2014in violation of its statutory duty\u2014based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kacsmaryk\u2019s order gave the federal government seven days to appeal. Becerra pledged that, in the mean time, his department will \u201cdo everything\u201d to make sure women have access to mifepristone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to do everything to make sure it\u2019s 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the Biden administration would recommend that the FDA ignore the court order, Becerra replied that, \u201cEverything is on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president said that way back when the Dobbs decision came out,\u201d he said, referring to last summer\u2019s <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said Sunday that the Biden administration is considering defying a conservative federal judge\u2019s order that suspends the approval of mifepristone, the nation\u2019s most widely used abortion drug. \u201cWe want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,\u201d Becerra said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d of the ruling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":1912366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4310,3620,4733,5642,4964,11979,7570,3779,4774,8082],"class_list":["post-1912365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-abortion","tag-biden","tag-court","tag-drug","tag-health","tag-ignoring","tag-on","tag-secretary","tag-suggests","tag-table"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}