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A group of more than 250 Democratic lawmakers filed an amicus brief on Friday to request the Supreme Court to issue a full stop to “dangerous” restrictions on access to abortion pills.
All Senate Democrats — except for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — and 203 out of 213 House Democrats signed their names to support the Biden administration’s appeal for the Supreme Court to uphold the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, one of two approved abortion pills in the country.
A release from Democrats on the House Energy & Commerce Committee states that the brief is backing the administration’s appeal in opposition to rulings from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that suspended the FDA’s approval of the pill and from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that did not revoke the pill’s approval entirely but upheld certain restrictions on it.
The FDA’s approval of mifepristone was jeopardized last week after Kacsmaryk ruled that the agency improperly rushed the approval process for the drug more than 20 years ago and violated federal standards.
