CNN's Dana Bash speaks to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra after a federal judge issued a ruling suspending the Food and Drug Administration's two-decade-old approval of mifepristone, a medication abortion drug.
#CNN #News
Style experts spot a ‘no-no’ inside the Oval Office
Amanpour: Dissent about war in Ukraine in Putin’s circle is ‘silenced’
Cannes Film Festival 2023: The stand-out films and stars this year
Anti-Putin Russians based in Ukraine allegedly stage incursion into Russia
If judges can approve drugs, why have the FDA?🤔
@Faith & Freedom *sense
He is upholding the rights of the unborn. This is a straw man argument.
@Z-Ray-DadBod The “rights” of the unborn were not a legal argument in this case. If the judge made the ruling because he was “upholding the rights of the unborn,” then he has violated his legal obligations and committed a flagrant abuse of power. If that’s what the judge has done, then he should be stripped of his judicial position and barred from ever again presiding over a court room.
@Z-Ray-DadBod do you even know what words mean? The only person here making a strawman argument is you.
The FDA should absolutely ignore the decision and opinion of 1 radical-right judge.
It’s a game, this is the first step to have this go to the Supreme court.
@Jdubb what right is anyone being denied? Please point out it out in the Bill of Rights.
@Bucky Goldstein
😄🐑😄 Sure Lib 😄🐑😄
@Selonious Sure sheep.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅
I am a citizen of the United States of America. My Constitutional rights should be the same in all 50 States. The government should enforce if necessary those rights in all 50 states. Yet we have red and blue States doing exactly the opposite with their laws and rulings.
@Roger Brown Reacts shouldn’t have to. It’s the UNITED States of America . You can move to Moscow Comrade.
@Roger Brown Reacts where in Russia did you learn US history?
@Lea Garner nope you lost all sight of We the People.
@Roger Brown Reacts you went to school and tore the pages out of the books and ate them.
The judge doesn’t have any medical background, and only blocked use of the abortion drug based on his opinion. How is he allowed to do so, without any standing?
@Berke Kadir Çelik No they don’t.
@Fred Simmons hahahahahahahahahaha
Well, the plaintiffs are the ones who must have standing to bring a case. And in the preliminary ruling issued by this Texas judge, he speaks (a lot) to the standing of the plaintiffs.
The preliminary ruling is almost 70 pages. I got to page 16 before I quit. It reads like it was written by the plaintiffs. Just the little I read was unbelievably shocking; I was honestly not expecting this level of bias, deception, and irrationality.
At one point, the judge is defending the plaintiffs’ claim of future harm suffered by third-parties and he explains that due to potential drug side-effects, it’s dangerous for pregnant patients to receive mifepristone by mail when they live in “maternity-care ‘deserts’” which likely doesn’t have access to emergency care. So, this judge thinks that instead of receiving a safe, effective medication abortion, people in maternity-care deserts without emergency care should be subject to a full-term pregnancy and birth??? Wtf
@Fred Simmons Hopefully you and your kind see him soon. 😅
While I do not believe in abortion as a responsible act in most cases. I support the right of women to determine the course of their lives, health and bodies! Religious zealots have imposed their will on what is supposed to be a free democratic state and these people are just plain wrong. I believe in and support a woman’s right to choose.
Because you seem like a person who is trying to do the right thing, I thought it was important that you know the first sentence of your comment is harmful—to your message as well as to other people.
You’re (rightly) criticizing “religious zealots” for imposing their will on other people but legislation isn’t the only obstacle to reproductive freedom.
Rhetoric like the first sentence in your comment is inflammatory and contributes to the social stigma surrounding abortion. It keeps the conversation emotionally charged and stigmatized, which pulls focus away from the actual matter at hand—protecting the human right of bodily autonomy, which is an essential element to “a free democratic state.”
We shouldn’t be publicly declaring or discussing our personal judgement about other people’s personal reproductive choices. We should be publicly defending other people’s right to make personal reproductive choices, which—except for the first sentence—is exactly what your comment did.
I don’t understand how one judge in one state can block medication for the entire country?
It’s funny, when a democrat elected judge in one district would put a nation wide injunction on a Trump administration policy… the media would clap …
@Fortitudine Vincimus they did it under Trump too… and the media loved it
@Jayhawksfan I seem to remember Trump withholding aid to blue states to combat the pandemic hoping it would kill them off.
@Fortitudine Vincimus weird when was that? Can you elaborate???
why can’t the FDA simply re-approve the drug? The Texas suit argues on process, not safety or effectiveness. Renew the process and approve it again immediately
Safe and Effective, where have we heard that before
Why re-approve when there is an injunction filed.
I’m in the UK and I can walk into a supermarket and buy all I want of this over the counter as easily as buying Mars Bars. Could I just buy it and set up a website to sell it to people in the USA and just post it out?
@rob cooke be responsible
@Ina Grove maybe you shouldn’t initially engage with people that didn’t come checking for you in the first place. Weirdo
@JasonDrvmz ……aaaand he’s back 🤦♀️
It’s sad 1 judgment 1 person can literally take rights away from women of all 😢
@Z-Ray-DadBod So the fetus has the right to kill the mother?
@Attack The Planet That pill is also used when women miscarry. It expels all the afterbirth without having to do a more invasive surgical procedure called a D&C that carries a lot more risks than taking a pill.
@Attack The Planet the fetus doesn’t have an opinion
@Attack The Planet ok handmaids tale.
This wasn’t even be an issue if the government told men what to do with heir bodies. I say start neutering men.
Why isn’t this judges attempt at a corrupt abuse of powers under investigation? I want to participate in a class action suit against this judge.
@angela bluebird60 Practicing birth control and sleeping with fewer randos is exceedingly strong as well. You know, Personal Responsibility, have you heard of it?
@Chief Big Sky Drink Fire Water those children could think and feel and ending their lives and all their hopes and dreams is far and away more contemptible than ending the life of something with no thoughts or feelings.
And what does personal responsibility have to do with anything? Who are you suggesting she be responsible TO? The thing which can’t think or feel?
@Chief Big Sky Drink Fire Water YOU are trying to force people to give birth against their will, thus YOU should pay for the full cost of those forced births that would not exist otherwise (including full medical care, everything they eat, all of their clothing and supplies, tuition..EVERY burden that you forced on others).
Why should others have to pay for your actions?
The judge should be removed from the bench for being so biased in a religious means.
He said “I am not as old as I am then FLY”🤣.. FJB
He doesn’t want to get into her speculation but he doesn’t mind working his own speculation in a fair Supreme Court when it has 4 justices that lied about their belief of Roe being settled law 😂 this guy just doesn’t get it
This judge should be brought up on ethics charges
🤣
No grounds. Disagreeing with a persons politics, even if they are a judge is not an ethical violation. They should appoint a second liberal judge who respects science to that district so the whacks doodles can set up shop there and be guaranteed to get this fact free judge as an abettor
@Selonious hello horrible ethics from the 1200’s
Mifeprestone was first approved in Europe in 1988. 35 years ago. The FDA had more than a decade of safety data by 2000. Note it is not about just one drug. It is about whether or not the FDA or judges approve medication.
The FDA should publish a list of all drugs which have ever been approved using the sae process as mifepristone and where they have relied upon safety data from the EU.
The FDA should then make it clear that any ruling against mifepristone will result in all the other drugs on the list being withdrawn, starting with withdrawing it from the Texan market. Sure many Texans might die as a consequence, but that is a price I am willing to accept.
Start with the little blue pill
It’s a slippery slope. If one judge can ban this drug, then a judge can ban any drug on the market – including insulin, heart medicines, antibiotics, and flu vaccines.
Who’s to say a judge can’t also decide the FDA approval process is illegal?
Yeah nah man just don’t kill children
@Makeu upset children have been born.
I did not hear an answer to her question, “what are you going to do?” All I heard were platitudes and assurances they would do “something.” I you can’t name one single CONCRETE action you will take then you are USELESS Becerra.
What are they going to ban next? Contraceptives? Why aren’t the Doctors in America in an uproar about this?