Steve Garrison reports:
A Fourth Circuit panel upheld a West Virginia law that bans most abortions, including drug-induced abortions.
U.S. Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Ronald Reagan appointee, wrote in a 28-page opinion that the federal government’s role in the regulation of medicine does not prevent the Appalachian state from enforcing its own law promoting public health and safety.
GenBioPro, a maker of the generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone, challenged West Virginia’s Unborn Child Protection Act, which bans most abortions, including those that are drug-induced. The drugmaker argues the state law is preempted by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, which provides the FDA sole authority to regulate certain medications, including mifepristone.
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