GOP rep. echoes AOC’s call for Biden to 'ignore' Texas judge’s ruling on abortion pill

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Monday echoed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in calling on the Biden Administration to “ignore” a federal judge’s ruling that suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. Northern District of Texas on Friday invalidated the FDA’s circa-2000 approval of mifepristone. The New York Times reports the judge’s preliminary injunction also invalidated “the FDA’s subsequent decisions that expanded the use of mifepristone in terminating early pregnancies.”

Speaking with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez called Kacsmaryk’s ruling “an extreme abuse of power” and “extraordinary example of judicial overreach.” The New York Democrat also said the ruling made “a mockery of our system, a mockery of our democracy and a mockery of our law.”

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“The executive branch has an enforcement discretion,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

As Axios reports, Mace on Tuesday told CNN she agrees the approval of mifepristone rests with the FDA.

“I support the usage of FDA-approved drugs even if we might disagree,” Mace said. “It’s not up to us to decide as legislators or even the court system”

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“So I agree with ignoring [the ruling] at this point,” she added.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday appealed Kacsmaryk's "misguided" decision.

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