Texas federal court further threatens nationwide access to safe abortions

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It has been less than a year since the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the legal ramifications of this decision are already rippling across the country.

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in Texas, ruled against the FDAs’ approval of the abortion pill mifepristone on April 7. The lawsuit, brought forth against the FDA by The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a coalition of anti-abortion groups and four anti-abortion doctors, claimed mifepristone causes harm to patients and forces doctors to redirect medical resources that would have been used for other patients.

Deanna Cuadra
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Deanna Cuadra is a senior reporter at Employee Benefit News. Her work covers healthcare, U.S. policy and reform, challenges faced by women and parents in the workplace and innovation in work culture … Read full bio


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