Judge in Washington says the FDA may not remove from the market Miffa-Pristone. The FDA has to keep it available in these 17 states, so it doesn't apply all over the country. A higher court kind of has to get involved because it's not supposed to be the case in America that like there are two different sets of laws that are fighting with each other.
A federal judge in Texas invalidated the FDA’s decades-old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. Vox’s Anna North explains the battle over a drug that’s been legal since 2000.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matthew Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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