Mike Pence Cheers Abortion Pill Ruling In Texas

Mike Pence praised a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that overrules the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Mike Pence praised a ruling from a federal decide in Texas that overrules the Meals and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion capsule mifepristone.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday applauded the controversial federal courtroom ruling on Friday invalidating the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration’s longstanding approval of a broadly used abortion capsule.

“Life received once more right now. When it accepted chemical abortions on demand, the FDA acted carelessly and with blatant disregard for human life and the wellbeing of American ladies, and right now’s ruling fastened a 20 yr fallacious,” Pence mentioned in a press release by his PAC, Advancing American Freedom, that was referring to the day the ruling got here down final week.

“Advancing American Freedom will at all times battle for the sanctity of life and defend the unborn and ladies in disaster pregnancies.”

Pence is the primary among the many declared or attainable 2024 presidential candidates on the Republican facet to weigh in on final Friday’s ruling out of Texas. Former President Donald Trump, the presumed front-runner for the GOP nomination up to now, has been silent, regardless of having appointed the federal decide whose ruling may turn out to be essentially the most important abortion determination for the reason that Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade final June.

Republicans are quiet — and for good motive. Polls usually present that a majority of Individuals assist some type of abortion entry. Six in 10 voters again authorized abortion typically, in keeping with a Politico evaluation of the 2022 midterms. Abortion entry was seen as a highly effective subject for Democrats within the final election.

Pence, whose abortion views are knowledgeable by his spiritual religion, doubled down within the wake of Roe v. Wade’s reversal, saying “we should not relaxation” till abortion is outlawed completely throughout the nation. The previous vice chairman has urged different Republicans to stake out equally excessive positions on banning abortion entry.

U.S. District Choose Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling invalidates the FDA’s 2000 approval of abortion drug mifepristone. The ruling doesn't go into impact for every week, whereas within the meantime the Biden administration has vowed to attraction the choice.

The Justice Division can be weighing find out how to proceed in gentle of a conflicting ruling in Washington state that got here down shortly after Kacsmaryk’s ruling and ordered the FDA to take care of the abortion capsule establishment in response to a separate lawsuit introduced by a gaggle of Democratic attorneys normal.

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