(Washington) The suspension of the authorization of an abortion pill by a federal judge in Texas “exceeds the limits”, said Tuesday Joe Biden.
“It goes completely beyond the bounds, what the judge did,” said the American president on Tuesday just before his departure from Washington for a trip to Northern Ireland and Ireland.
On Friday, Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk handed another resounding victory to abortion opponents in the United States, by withdrawing nationwide marketing authorization for the abortion pill mifepristone (RU 486).
It has been approved for more than 20 years and used every year by half a million American women.
At the same time, one of his colleagues sitting in Washington State ruled that the marketing authorization for mifepristone, which is used in combination with another stamp, could not be withdrawn in the 17 Democratic states. who had seized it.
The Justice Department on Monday asked an appeals court to freeze the Texas judge’s decision.
Shortly after the announcement of this decision by Judge Kacsmaryk, Joe Biden said he was determined to “Fight” it, calling it an “Unprecedented attempt to deprive women of fundamental freedoms”.