• Who could have guessed that Bud Light would prove unable to tell a faint approximation from the real thing?
• In 2000, late in the Clinton administration, the FDA greenlit the abortion pill known as “RU-486” or “Mifeprex.” To fast-track its approval, the FDA had to characterize pregnancy, preposterously, as a “serious or life-threatening illness.” The FDA then sat on administrative objections to this procedure for nearly 14 years to thwart judicial review while the pill’s market share grew — it now causes a majority of all U.S. abortions. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas has finally struck down that approval — correctly, but probably too late for the statute of limitations. Kacsmaryk is on much more solid ground in enjoining the FDA’s 2021 rules that flout long-standing federal law by allowing the dispensing of the mifepristone pill through the mail. The Biden administration decided to ignore this law in order to block pro-life states from being able to act on their convictions even after Dobbs liberated them to do so. We commend Kacsmaryk’s courage in describing unborn children accurately as human beings, in the face of a torrent of media abuse heaped upon him both before and after his ruling. Naturally, leading Democrats are demanding that Biden ignore adverse court rulings, too. A competing injunction by a federal judge in Washington State, meanwhile, found even the watered-down Biden FDA rules for dispensing the pill by mail to be too restrictive. Once again, a lawless executive clashes with a chaotic system of nationwide injunctions by individual judges — dumping questions of life and death in the lap of the appellate courts.
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