Red states around the country have jumped to pass bills restricting abortions or eliminating them altogether in the wake of last year’s Dobbs ruling, but most of those restrictions and bans don’t touch one of the most prevalent methods by which abortions happen in America.

Most abortions are accomplished through pills taken right after conception. And pro-life activists are attempting to put a stop to that method being legal, something which would change the debate on abortion even more than the Dobbs decision did.

It’s a fight the Biden administration relishes, because while the Democrat Party’s position on abortion is the most extreme of all – namely, that abortion should be legal at any point a pregnant woman decides to undergo one – they believe they can win the narrative every time abortion comes up.

So when a federal judge in Texas held on the side of the pro-life activists attempting to stop mail-order delivery of abortion pills by suspending FDA approval of an abortion drug, Team Biden decided to ramp up the fight…

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Sunday said the Biden Regime will ignore a federal judge’s ruling to suspend the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

Federal judges on Friday issued dueling orders on access to abortion pills, setting up a Supreme Court battle.

“U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ordered a hold on federal approval of mifepristone in a decision that overruled decades of scientific approval. But that decision came at nearly the same time that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, an Obama appointee, essentially ordered the opposite and directed U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the drug in at least 17 states where Democrats sued in an effort to protect availability.” AP reported.

Here’s Becerra, a machine politician who has zero qualifications to run the federal government’s healthcare bureaucracy, talking about the case…

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra says “everything is on the table” following a Texas federal judge’s ruling to suspend the FDA's approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone https://t.co/Tk0NLZwafb pic.twitter.com/Ao2pAYqSx6

— CNN (@CNN) April 9, 2023

Mifepristone as “medication” is a macabre bit of terminology. It’s also known as RU-486, and it’s been around for a long time. But a lawsuit by a pro-life group calls it into question, as there are side effects which affect younger women in particular, and that’s the subject of the court case in Texas which brought this on…

The 67-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, will not take effect for one week, in order to give the Biden administration a chance to file an emergency appeal, which the U.S. Department of Justice said it will do.

Kacsmaryk’s ruling is a preliminary injunction that would essentially ban sales of mifepristone while the case by anti-abortion groups before him continues. The judge, who was appointed to the bench by Republican President Donald Trump, has not yet made a final ruling on the merits of the challenge.

However, in his ruling he found that the lawsuit is substantially likely to succeed. He said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had ignored risks in approving the drug.

“The Court does not second-guess FDA’s decision-making lightly,” he wrote. “But here, FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns – in violation of its statutory duty – based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions.”

The case was brought by four anti-abortion groups headed by the recently formed Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and four anti-abortion doctors who sued the FDA in November. They contend the agency used an improper process when it approved mifepristone in 2000 and did not adequately consider the drug’s safety when used by girls under age 18 to terminate a pregnancy.

“By illegally approving dangerous chemical abortion drugs, the FDA put women and girls in harm’s way, and it’s high time the agency is held accountable for its reckless actions,” said Erik Baptist of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which filed the case.

Don’t be shocked, especially if the Texas case goes up to the Supreme Court and the pro-life side wins, to see the mifepristone issue become the front line in the abortion battle.