<p>Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) rejected a push by her fellow Democrats for the Biden administration to ignore a ruling banning an abortion drug.</p>
<p>Appearing on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/04/16/sotu-gillibrand-full-interview.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of the Union</a>&#8221; Sunday, Gillibrand rejected calls from her New York colleague, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY), who last week called for the administration to ignore a federal judge&#8217;s ruling in Texas who suspended the FDA&#8217;s approval for the abortifacient drug mifepristone.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to ignore the rule of law,&#8221; said Gillibrand. &#8220;And we have a court system and an appeals system for a reason. So I think the Biden administration is correct in actually fighting this in the Supreme Court. Whether we win or not in the Supreme Court doesn&#8217;t mean that&#8217;s our last effort. We will go state by state to guarantee reproductive freedom.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the same time, Gillibrand blasted the Supreme Court over its previous rulings on abortion.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you take away 50 percent of America&#8217;s right to privacy, to say women don&#8217;t have it during their reproductive years, it is such an overstretch and an outrageous statement that I think, when people wake up to the reality of what this means for a conservative court where they believe they should impose their views of the world, their religious beliefs, their views on health care, on the FDA&#8217;s decision of 20 years ago of a drug that has been deemed very safe?&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier this month, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-in-texas-suspends-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-used-in-up-to-half-of-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal judge</a> in Texas blocked the FDA&#8217;s approval for mifepristone, claiming it had acted too quickly and without sufficient testing. Appearing on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; last Sunday, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/04/09/sotu-ocasio-cortez-full.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ocasio-Cortez</a> called for the Biden administration to ignore the ruling.</p>
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<p>“There is an extraordinary amount of precedent for this,&#8221; she told host Dana Bash. &#8220;There is a term known as agency non-acquiescence, and this has been used. And for folks saying this is a first, that this is precedent-setting, it is not.”</p>
<p>&#8220;[T]he courts rely on the legitimacy of their rulings. And when they make a mockery of our system, a mockery of our democracy and a mockery of our law as what we just saw happen in this mifepristone ruling, then I believe that that the executive branch and we know that the executive branch has an enforcement discretion,” she added. &#8220;I do not believe that the courts have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted.”</p>
<p>The Fifth Circuit blocked the Texas judge&#8217;s decision but re-imposed stricter requirements on the distribution of mifepristone. On Friday, the Supreme Court blocked the Fifth Circuit&#8217;s ruling until 11:59 P.M. this Wednesday. According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-abortion-pill-restrictions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a>, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to block the rules, or re-impose them, while it hears the Biden administration&#8217;s appeal to the Fifth Circuit&#8217;s ruling. The Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling could significantly restrict access to the drug nationwide.</p>

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