Biden HHS secretary says ignoring courtroom order in opposition to abortion capsule is ‘on the table’

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stated Sunday that the Biden administration is contemplating ignoring an order by a federal choose in Texas halting the federal government’s approval of the abortion capsule mifepristone.

Mr. Becerra emphasised that “everything is on the table” — together with violating a courtroom order — within the wake of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling final week that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval strategy of the drug twenty years in the past was illegal.

In a competing and contradictory ruling on the identical day from a separate case in Washington state involving the abortion drug, a special federal choose issued a ruling defending the remedy. 

“I got to believe that an appeals court, the Supreme Court or whatever court, has to understand that this ruling by this one judge overturns not just access to mifepristone but possibly any number of drugs,” Mr. Becerra stated on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Everything is on the table. The president said what way back when the Dobbs decision came out. Every option is on the table.”

The administration has filed a discover of attraction for the Texas case that’s anticipated to succeed in the Supreme Court, whose conservative majority final yr overturned long-standing federal protections for abortion underneath Roe v. Wade often called the Dobbs ruling.  

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, is among the many liberal voices who’ve instructed the administration ought to ignore the federal choose.