West Virginia can restrict the sale of the abortion pill, despite federal regulators’ approval of it as a safe and effective medication, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers determined Thursday that the near-total abortion ban signed by Republican Gov. Jim Justice in September 2022 takes precedence over approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
It’s not nearly as straight forward as you think it is.
Yeah, I still hope sanity prevails here before we have “heart failure guidelines: fifty protocols for each fifty states based on what fda approved medications they have decided to allow.”
Thank you for the article. I also found this write-up helpful as well: https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/10/1/lsad005/7078178?login=false
That’s a dormant commerce clause case; creating a whole ass agency like the FDA is about as un-dormant as Congress can be and should make this a whole different thing