Trump Admin Continues Biden Defense Of Abortion Drug Mifepristone, Asks Court To Dismiss Lawsuit

The Trump management is asking a national judge successful Texas to disregard a lawsuit that intends to restrict entree to nan abortion drug mifepristone. 

The petition continues nan Biden administration's position successful defense of nan drug: that Texas isn't nan due venue for nan lawsuit.

In a Justice Department tribunal filing, nan Trump management said Idaho, Missouri and Kansas have nary ties to Texas, wherever nan suit was filed, arguing they deficiency opinionated successful nan suit against nan Food and Drug Administration complete its rules complete nan pills, which are disposable online and by mail.

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"Aside from this litigation, nan States do not conflict that their claims person nary relationship to nan Northern District of Texas," nan DOJ wrote. "The states cannot support live a suit successful which nan original plaintiffs were held to deficiency standing, those plaintiffs person now voluntarily dismissed their claims, and nan States’ ain claims person nary relationship to this District." 

The 3 Republican-led states are challenging FDA actions that loosened restrictions connected nan supplier successful 2016 and 2021, including allowing for medicine abortions astatine up to 10 weeks of pregnancy alternatively of seven, and for message transportation of nan supplier without a female first seeing a clinician in-person, Reuters reported. 

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Mifepristone, besides known arsenic RU-486, is simply a medicine typically utilized successful operation pinch misoprostol to bring astir a aesculapian abortion during gestation and negociate early miscarriage. (Getty Images)

A little tribunal antecedently rebuffed a petition to reverse FDA support of mifepristone. 

"The States are free to prosecute their claims successful a District wherever venue is proper," nan national attorneys said. But nan little pointed to weaknesses successful nan states’ statement beyond standing, noting, for instance, that their situation to nan FDA’s 2016 action allowing nan pills to beryllium utilized up to 10 weeks of gestation alternatively than nan erstwhile 7 is extracurricular nan statute of limitations.

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Last year, nan Supreme Court dismissed a suit revenge by anti-abortion doctors and aesculapian associations aft nan justices ruled nan plaintiffs could not show they had been personally harmed by nan national government's regularisation of nan pill. 

The Trump management besides based on for nan dismissal, saying nan states' situation to FDA’s 2016 actions is extracurricular nan six-year statute of limitations.

Fox News Digital's Melissa Rudy contributed to this report.