(Corrected to reflect that the decision was on Thursday, not Friday)
By Daniel Wiessner
July 24 (Reuters) – A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that former President Joe Biden’s administration failed to justify a rule it adopted requiring doctors and pharmacies to be specially certified to prescribe the abortion drug mifepristone, and struck it down.
U.S. District Judge Robert Ballou in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Thursday agreed with three abortion providers that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had failed to consider relevant data and weigh the impact of the 2023 rule on patients and providers before adopting it.
Ballou ordered the FDA, which is currently conducting a broader review of the safety of mifepristone, to reconsider the rule.
(Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New YorkEditing by Nick Zieminski)
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