(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Truth Brigade: Bigoted TX Judge Screams about Abortion Drug [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-11 Judge Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk, from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, issued a nationwide ruling in the case before his court, though his ruling will not take effect until at least a week from Friday. A federal judge in Washington state released a separate opinion telling the FDA it cannot alter “the status quo and rights as it relates to the availability of Mifepristone” in the 16 states that filed a lawsuit in that court. Judge Thomas Rice, from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, ordered the FDA not to substantially change access to mifepristone in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Analysis I don’t have room here to go through the opinion line by line pointing out logical and legal fallacies. Suffice it to say that they are pervasive, most notably in the form of medical quackery from Evangelicals, taken at face value by the judge, who simultaneously rejected all actual medical data from the FDA and friends of the court. The Judge is a judicial activist of the worst sort, the kind that Wrong-Wingers would be screaming the roof off about, except that “judicial activism” turns out to be merely a long-standing Dog Whistle for “decisions that we scream about”. As always, Whatever Wrong-Wingers scream about, do more of. x Fear is the mind killer. Dune, Litany against fear Louder & nastier screaming just shows that we are winning. Whatever they scream about, do more of it. CRT? Saying "gay"? Getting ever more woke? Go for it.#Indivisible #TruthBrigade—CRITICAL ERROR: NO SPACE FOR HATE https://t.co/eyb8ug4Qli pic.twitter.com/ba50WhkueI — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) March 20, 2023 See also earlier plaintiffs American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists (“AAPLOG”) and Christian Medical & Dental Associations, which sought to block FDA approval of mifepristone in 2002. In 2006 Congressional mysogynists claimed Mifepristone was “associated with the deaths of at least 8 women, 9 life-threatening incidents, 232 hospitalizations, 116 blood transfusions, and 88 cases of infection, [plus] “more than 950 adverse event cases” associated with mifepristone “out of only 575,000 prescriptions, at most.” The subsequent Staff Report concluded that FDA’s approval and monitoring of mifepristone was “substandard and necessitates the withdrawal of this dangerous and fatal product before more women suffer the known and anticipated consequences or fatalities.” Bo-o-o-o-ogus! “Associated with”—what wonderful weasel words! Not “caused” or anything like it. Those statistical lies also don’t point out how many of those adverse outcomes were caused by complications of the pregnancies, not the medication. That is an excellent safety record being spun into a Dog Whistle to Evangelical haters. It invites comparison with Viagra, which has in fact been done. Mifepristone is much safer. Palmer Report: For the second day in a row, Republican extremists have picked the wrong fight – and they’re going to lose On Thursday, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas outlawed the abortion pill nationwide. These Republican extremists have picked the wrong fight. All they have left is judicial terrorism and state legislature terrorism So if extremist Republicans and their extremist judges really want to keep digging themselves a deeper hole like this, that’s their call. We'll Dig Our Way Out (Simpsons Clip) All it’ll do is keep motivating a larger and larger majority of Americans to make it their life’s mission to vote these thugs out of power. These Republicans keep wanting to see what they can get away with. They’re about to find out that answer the hard way. Links Kacsmaryk’s legal reasoning is as irresponsible as his rhetoric. He cites, as supposedly objective sources, studies conducted by antiabortion activists. I could keep going, but you get the point: This is a judge who knows what conclusion he wants to reach and is going to do what he must to get there — facts, fairness and law be damned. Party members call on Biden to do more to protect reproductive rights amid conflicting judicial rulings on mifepristone The Indivisible Truth Brigade [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/11/2162935/-Truth-Brigade-Bigoted-TX-Judge-Screams-about-Abortion-Drug Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/