Drug developers condemn Texas judge’s anti-science abortion ruling

Over 400 biopharma leaders are calling for the ruling to be reversed.

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[msawzall]

Tired of merely trying to legislate morality, conservatives now want to jump into trying to legislate medical care (because clearly politicians know so much more about medicine and such), and when that fails to resort to the corrupt judges they get onto the bench to dictate what's "right." Next they'll be trying to outlaw vaccines: "if God had wanted us to have vaccines, then He would have made them grow on trees!" and "If it was good enough for the Twelve Apostles, then it's good enough for US!" (yeah, they be stupid hypocrites)

Remember when they all lit into Obama with, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." I guess medication is different.
Their hypocrisy is in indeed glaring.

 

[msawzall]

Why do Republicans hate women?

Why do Republicans hate:
Women
People of color
Non-christians
The poor
LGBTQ+
Immigrants

 

[msawzall]

Myeah, and it's time to trot this little image out again.

At the 2021 CPAC they stood on an Odal rune, old symbol of the SS division tasked to defend racial purity and the official symbol (since 2016) of the american neo-nazi party belting out messages cribbed right out of Hitler's campaign speeches. At the 2022 CPAC they held their first CPAC in Hungary, letting Viktor Orban hold the keynote address - which he did, bringing the message of a white christian community bereft of "mixed races".
So popular they invited him to their next CPAC in Texas to tell them all the funny anecdotes on how he rid his country of jews and gypsies.

The GOP today relies on a base which largely consists of bona fide nazis and fascists. There's no getting around that. Not since they exchanged their dogwhistles in favor of bullhorns.

They tried the bullhorn and found there were no repercussions. On the contrary, they found reelections. They may not directly believe in what their base does, but they believe it works, because it does.

 

[msawzall]

Drug companies could always stop selling ANY medicine to Texas, be interesting to watch a state wither and die as a political experiment.

It'd be nice, but that would involve a decrease in profits for a company. Not ever gonna happen anywhere in America. But I can definitely appreciate the fantasy.

 

[msawzall]

I'm not saying the judge isn't wrong here.

But literally the only thing untoward or out of the ordinary with respect to this case is the fact that the ruling - even the original complaint - is 20 years late.

If this had been a ruling overturning the recent approval of that Alzheimers drug that was mired in controversy (aducanumab), nobody would have blinked.

I've got no love for the existing SCOTUS, but given how disruptive and utterly bullshit this ruling was, they won't let it stand, especially when they have a politically neutral, easy way out in the doctrine of laches (aka, unreasonable delay in bringing suit) that'll let them avoid ruling on the abortion side of things altogether. It'll probably be 7-2 with Alito/Thomas saying something stupid in the dissent, but that's it.

Both the left and the right routinely take advantage of the fact that it's not hard to find a district court level judge willing to make some stupid-ass ruling like this, and these rulings always end up getting appealed and usually overturned.

And, as I said, even if it doesn't, the FDA isn't forbidden from re-approving the drug. They just have to make sure the i's are dotted and t's are crossed this time, and there's plenty of accelerated approval programs this would fall under.

From the people who brought you, "Roe Will NEVER Be Overturned" comes...