{"id":305314,"date":"2024-01-18T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=305314"},"modified":"2024-01-17T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T20:38:27","slug":"three-states-join-texas-abortion-pill-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/three-states-join-texas-abortion-pill-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more states allowed to join Texas as plaintiffs in abortion pill lawsuit against FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In December, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration<\/a><\/em> case, in which restrictions surrounding mifepristone will be considered. Originally, the state of Texas was the only one in the country included in the lawsuit, but a judge has ruled that three more will be allowed to join in as well.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk granted a motion<\/a> allowing Idaho, Missouri, and Kansas to join as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The states argued that the case will affect them, particularly as “out-of-state organizations are sending thousands of abortion pills into Intervenor states, relying on the very actions by FDA that are challenged in this case.”<\/p>\n

Though the FDA tried to keep the states from joining, Kacsmaryk refused, saying they have a right to argue their cases as well.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood has already responded with disapproval. “It’s no coincidence that you are seeing Idaho in front of the Supreme Court time and time again,” CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Indiana, Kentucky, Rebecca Gibron said in a statement<\/a>. “They are consistently at the forefront of the battle against reproductive rights that their own state doesn’t support, and is actively being harmed by, with some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. Lawmakers here are doing everything in their power to take us backward and ignore decades of proof that Mifepristone is a safe and effective option. For the sake of patients everywhere, we hope the court will see through this embarrassing attempt to grasp at legal straws.”<\/p>\n