12/15/2023 0 Comments Alliance defending freedom adf![]() Hawley received her bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from Texas A&M University and her law degree from Yale Law School where she served as a Coker Fellow in Constitutional Law and on the Yale Law Journal. ![]() As an academic, Hawley served as an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri and she also taught constitutional law as a senior fellow at the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy. Department of Justice, serving as counsel to Attorney General Michael Mukasey. ![]() Supreme Court as well as numerous federal courts of appeals and state courts of last resort. Hawley has litigated extensively before the U.S. Before joining ADF, Hawley practiced appellate law at Kirkland and Ellis LLP, Bancroft LLP, and King & Spalding LLP. It is the first lawsuit to challenge federal government officials for their illegal approval of chemical abortion drugs that harm women and girls.Īlliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.Įrin Morrow Hawley serves as senior counsel and vice president of the Center for Life and regulatory practice at Alliance Defending Freedom. Supreme Court opted to pause any implementation of the district court’s decision until the full appeal concludes.ĪDF attorneys filed the lawsuit against the FDA in November 2022 on behalf of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, and doctors Shaun Jester, Regina Frost-Clark, Tyler Johnson, and George Delgado. After an emergency appeal by the FDA, the U.S. The 5th Circuit affirmed moving that back to seven weeks’ gestation to protect the mother from adverse complications that increase with gestational age, reinstating necessary doctor visits, and bringing back the requirement that abortionists must check women for complications after their chemical abortions. Additionally, in 2016, the FDA extended the permissible gestational age of the baby for which a girl or woman may take chemical abortion drugs-from seven weeks’ gestation to 10 weeks’ gestation. Last month, a different panel of the 5th Circuit ruled to let portions of the district court’s order go into effect, including prohibiting abortionists from sending chemical abortion drugs through the mail, which the FDA had been allowing since 2021 in direct violation of longstanding federal law. The public interest weighs in favor of taking a dangerous drug with no meaningful safeguards off the market.” These illegal actions do not reflect ‘scientific’ judgment but rather reveal politically driven decisions to push a dangerous drug regimen without regard to women’s health or the rule of law. “The FDA’s unprecedented and unlawful actions to approve chemical abortion drugs and later to remove crucial safeguards placed politics above the health and safety of women and girls. “The FDA must answer for the damage it has caused to the health of countless women and girls and the rule of law by failing to study how dangerous the chemical abortion drug regimen is and unlawfully removing every meaningful safeguard, even allowing for mail-order abortions,” said ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley, vice president of the ADF Center for Life and Regulatory Practice, who will be arguing before the court on behalf of the medical associations and doctors. In the case, ADF attorneys are asking the 5th Circuit to uphold a federal district court’s decision protecting the health and safety of women and girls against chemical abortion drugs. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. NEW ORLEANS – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing four medical associations and four doctors experienced in caring for pregnant and post-abortive women will be available for media interviews Wednesday following oral arguments at the U.S. ![]() To schedule an interview, contact ADF Media Relations Specialist Hayden Sledge at (205) 767-4705. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, Room 209, 600 Camp St., New Orleans or listen live. WHEN: Immediately following hearing, which begins at 1 p.m. WHAT: Available for media interviews following oral arguments in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. WHO: Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys ![]()
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