President Joe Biden’s administration on April 10 asked a U.S. appeals court to stop an order that would make an abortion pill unavailable nationwide on Friday.
Making mifepristone, the pill, unavailable would “severely harm women,” Biden administration lawyers told an appeals court in an emergency motion for a stay.
U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ruled on April 7 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halt approval of the abortion drug because of signs the agency violated its statutory duty in its evaluation of the drug’s safety. Plaintiffs had also argued that the FDA lacks the authority to clear an abortion drug….