{"id":17323,"date":"2024-03-27T12:46:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/in-abortion-pill-arguments-supreme-court-justices-seem-skeptical-about-fda-accountability-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:46:46","slug":"in-abortion-pill-arguments-supreme-court-justices-seem-skeptical-about-fda-accountability-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/in-abortion-pill-arguments-supreme-court-justices-seem-skeptical-about-fda-accountability-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"In abortion pill arguments, Supreme Court justices seem skeptical about FDA accountability experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments challenging the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s (FDA) relaxed regulations on a widely prescribed abortion pill, and while legal experts say that the case could be tossed due to a lack of standing, the justices appeared skeptical of the idea that the FDA could face no liability.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Erin Hawley, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, argued the case on behalf of a group of doctors challenging the FDA\u2019s loose access restrictions on mifepristone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the justices seemed skeptical that the doctors had standing to sue, they did seem to take issue with the lack of accountability for the FDA for any harms caused by the abortion pill. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s quite troubling. It\u2019s one thing to say no one has standing in a taxpayer case where it affects everyone. Here you have the FDA who\u2019s not publicly accountable at all really, and has continually deregulated mifepristone. So I think that will be something the court really struggles with,\u2019 Hawley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Justice Samuel Alito at one point questioned Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, arguing for the FDA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The statement was made that no court has ever previously second-guessed the FDA\u2019s judgment about access to a drug,\u2019 he said. \u2018It\u2019s never second-guessed that? Do you think the FDA is infallible?<\/p>\n

\u2018So your argument is that it doesn\u2019t matter if FDA flagrantly violated the law or didn\u2019t do what it should have done, endanger the health of women,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s just too bad, and nobody can sue in court?\u2019 he pressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thomas Jipping, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said that Alito\u2019s questioning may have revealed his thinking on who has standing in such a matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018If you take a view of standing that results, not in these plaintiffs cannot sue, but no one can sue, maybe your view of standing is kind of misguided in the first place.,\u2019 he said. \u2018That was an interesting one.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Sometimes justices ask questions, not only just for an answer on a specific legal question, but kind of they ask questions that are related to a train of thought, something that they\u2019ve been considering,\u2019 Jipping said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Maybe they\u2019ve been talking about with their clerks sort of thinking out loud. And that was clearly one, that for Justice Alito and the Chief Justice. was the significant one,\u2019 he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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