Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a new lawsuit against the Biden Administration to stop pharmaceutical guidance from HHS that gives pharmacies the leeway to sell abortion-inducing drugs anywhere, despite state regulations.
The abortion-inducing drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, have a permanent stamp of approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for dissemination through telemedicine consultation. But Republicans are taking to state legislatures to ban the drugs altogether. However, in June 2022, the HHS established pharmaceutical guidelines that push back against any discriminatory practices, as pharmacies are federally funded through Medicare and Medicaid.
“The Biden Administration knows that it has no legal authority to institute this radical abortion agenda, so now it’s trying to intimidate every pharmacy in America by threatening to withhold federal funds,” said Paxton. “It’s not going to work. Texas and several other states across the country have dutifully passed laws to protect the unborn, and we are not going to back down just because unelected bureaucrats in Washington want to create illegal, extremist federal policies.
“…The Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs decision made clear that laws governing abortion are to be decided by state lawmakers, not the federal government,” read a press release from Paxton. “HHS’s guidance thus runs contrary to Dobbs by unlawfully preempting certain states’ laws that bar pharmacies from supplying these abortion-inducing drugs.”
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