Abortion drug maker says Mississippi can't ban pill despite Supreme Court ruling

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Brendan Pierson

(Reuters) -The maker of a drug used in medication abortions has told a federal judge that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling eliminating the nationwide right to abortion does not allow Mississippi to stop it from selling the pills in the state.

GenBioPro Inc, which makes a generic version of the drug mifepristone, said in a Thursday filing in Jackson, Mississippi federal court that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the drug should override any state ban.

The Las Vegas-based company sued the state in 2020 to challenge regulations that restricted medication abortion specifically. Mississippi is now set to ban nearly all abortions under a 2007 "trigger law" following the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which overturned its landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade establishing a constitutional right to abortion.

GenBioPro said that law will create a "that-much more direct and glaring conflict" with the FDA. It cited U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's statement last week that states "may not ban mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA's expert judgment about its safety and efficacy."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/abortion-drug-maker-says-mississippi-171739551.html

[crickets]

1. K&R for visibility.

[cloudboy07]

2. here we go ! juudge's not qualified for medical decisions ------

there boundary's of the FDA ! they talk about quack doctor's , how about quack judge's? just a thought?

[progressoid]

3. Back to the Supreme Court.

[iluvtennis]

4. But per the ruling against EPA policies earlier this week, Clarence Thomas

and his supremes don’t think federal agencies have any right to impose their policies on the US society, only congress can do that. I could see Clarence Thomas and his supremes ruling that FDA has no respect cut to approve drugs.

I know my opinion sounds asinine, but that what I gathered from this weeks ruling against the EPA.

[WestMichRad]

5. Well Congress didn't specifically approve THAT drug...

…so FDA doesn’t have authority to tell the state it is approved there, right?

/sarcasm