New complaint challenging ‘mail order abortion drug economy’ lands before Texas judge whose mifepristone ban was reversed by SCOTUS

Left: A picture of what is described as a "pill packing party" in a filing by Missouri, Kansas and Idaho looking to ban mifepristone, a pill used in medication abortions (court filing). Right: In this image from video from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Matthew Kacsmaryk listens during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Dec. 13, 2017 (Senate Judiciary Committee via AP).

Left: A picture of what is described as a “pill packing party” in a filing by Missouri, Kansas and Idaho looking to ban mifepristone, a pill used in medication abortions (court filing). Right: In this image from video from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Matthew Kacsmaryk listens during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Dec. 13, 2017 (Senate Judiciary Committee via AP).

Three states have joined anti-abortion group Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) in its attack on mifepristone — and the case is before the same Texas judge whose unprecedented 2023 decision ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke its approval of the abortion drug.

Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho filed an amended complaint as intervenor plaintiffs against the FDA Friday alleging that the agency has put women at risk by allowing drugs to be mailed to women with “no doctor care, no exam, and no in-person follow-up care.”

The FDA approved mifepristone in 2000; the drug is one part of a two-drug combination used in the U.S. for medication abortions. Misoprostol, the second drug used as part of the regimen, also has uses unrelated to the termination of pregnancy. In 2021, the FDA announced it would no longer force patients to appear in person to get a prescription for mifepristone after it reviewed safety data from pregnant women who used it during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy was formalized in 2023.

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