The Anti-Abortion Movement Just Made a Powerful New Enemy

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/abortion-pill-ban-mifepristone-pharmaceutical-biotech.html

by tapper • 3 years ago

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quantified• 3 years ago

A religious group that believes all disease is God's handiwork and people sin when they try to undo it can grind all medicine to a halt. Everything has a side effect that harms someone, even penicillin which encourages sex since it allowed syphilis to be cured.

brokenmachine• 3 years ago

I'm not too worried if that group practices what they preach and forgo all modern medicine.

Also modern food engineering. Enjoy your easily preventable deaths, losers!

But none of them actually practice what they preach... they just pick and choose when it suits... That is the gospel truth, but I'll choose to interpret that as a metaphor...

local_crmdgeon• 3 years ago

I love Big Pharma now!

DoreenMichele• 3 years ago

Excerpt:

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s lawless and unprecedented decision ordering the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of mifepristone, the first drug in a medication abortion, poses an existential threat to the entire industry: If upheld, the order would allow any doctor to file a lawsuit compelling the FDA to revoke approval of any drug they dislike. If any such suit succeeds, a single, handpicked judge could overrule the FDA’s scientific determinations and issue a nationwide block on that medication. The drug need not have anything to do with reproductive health: vaccines, antibiotics, antidepressants, hormones, statins, painkillers—all are vulnerable under Kacsmaryk’s decision.

It's actually an interesting read.

ZooCow• 3 years ago

Here’s the decision being referenced:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmojgodvr/...

The Anti-Abortion Movement Just Made a Powerful New Enemy

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