DOJ asks appeals court to pause judge's 'extraordinary and unprecedented' ruling on abortion drug mifepristone

The Department of Justice filed an emergency motion with a federal appeals court Monday seeking to halt a judge's ruling last week that would suspend access nationwide to the abortion drug mifepristone.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ordered a pause Friday to the FDA's approval of mifepristone, which is used with the drug misoprostol to end a pregnancy within the first 70 days. Kacsmaryk gave the federal government seven days to seek emergency relief from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. ---More...

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