The crescendo Court of Appeals 5th Circuit (#conservative #judges) today 5/17/23 seemed prepared to limit access to a key #mifepristone #abortion pill first approved more than two decades ago, expressing deep skepticism that the government followed the proper process when it loosened regulations to make the pill more readily available. #RoevWade #WomensHealthcare #Privacy #CivilLiberties #FDA #DOJ this will move to #SCOTUS and the likely denouement - back to the 1950s https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/17/abortion-pill-appeal-court-arguments/
Well it's not that the court is prepared to limit access. It's that our lawmakers passed a bunch of laws that limited access.
We really need to emphasize that this is all because of laws passed by Congress that probably need to be reformed.
To focus on the court has some nice drama to it, but it lets lawmakers off the hook for the role they played in passing bad laws and the administration off the hook for its part in violating law as the FDA did its thing.
@volkris good point. This is also a matter of judicial appointments that have severely curtailed and even limited "rights" because of highly partisan and very questionable judicial agendas that do not align with the beliefs of most Americans. #accountability
Ha! Like I said I am trying to get us to laser focus on fixing some bad laws, without being distracted by judicial drama, so I'm kind of laughing that you went right back into judicial drama 🙂
The FDA did some questionable stuff here, and I really wish the president would have the FDA fix their paperwork so this wouldn't even be a threat.
And in the longer term we need to reevaluate whether these safety laws are really necessary because in this case it seems that they were counterproductive.
We have these two other branches of government that are more set up to be accountable to us, so we need to focus on holding them accountable for their errors!
So far it looks like the judges are properly applying the law, but we need to fix the laws!
