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Texas suspends abortion pill access. US President Biden's sharp reaction follows
AFP | | Posted by Shobhit Gupta
Apr 08, 2023 08:39 AM IST
A federal judge in Texas on Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, one of the two drugs commonly used to end a pregnancy
US President Joe Biden on Friday called a federal judge's decision to suspend approval of an abortion pill as an "unprecedented step in taking away basic freedoms from women."
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"My administration will fight this ruling," Biden said in a statement issued by the White House.
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The ruling, if it were to stand, makes every regulated drug vulnerable to "these kinds of political, ideological attacks," Biden said.