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morning, everyone it is saturday . april 8th. i'm amro walker. i'm victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom and we begin with the abortion debate across the country. this time, it's over access to medication. abortion after federal courts issued conflicting rulings began after a federal judge in texas ruled to suspend the fda s two decade old approval. of method. pistone then washington state judge ruled the fda must keep the pill on the shelves and 17 democratic states and the district of columbia. cnn's senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen joins us now. so explain wha...

Texas, and wanted wanted him here. he they wanted him in this. he was a 2019 appointee of donald trump. he in his earlier life, had been a very strong advocate against abortion rights working for christian religious liberty group. so you know his his record was out. there and there was a certain expectation of what he might do. but you know again, you know, all these judicial candidates say they're going to set aside their their personal beliefs and rule on the law and i am sure that judge katz merrick believes he ruled on the law, but but he was he was chosen for this lawsuit, and in the end ...

Medication, abortion drugs, but for all drugs, so that's that's a significant question. and then there's other also a threshold question. the groups that sued down in texas specifically looking for this judge and looking for a sympathetic ruling from this judge, those groups you know, could arguably not have legal standing to bring their case that was a very real question. the lower court judge did say that these physicians and medical groups that were claiming an injury to themselves from the use of these of the medication abortion pill had been injured and judge his merrick sided with them, ...