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Weekend: Texas clamps down on abortion drug

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Texas clamps down on abortion drug

08/04/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Texas clamps down on abortion drug

A judge in Texas has moved to stop the use of a drug used in half of all abortions.

A judge in Texas has moved to stop the use of a key drug, mifepristone, which is used in more than half of all abortions in the US. The US Vice President, Kamala Harris, has warned that the judge has set a dangerous precedent by interfering with the work of the country’s drug regulation agency, the FDA. 

Also on the programme: A major leak of classified documents detailing American national security secrets exposes plans for a spring offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces; and army reserves are mobilised in Israel after an attack in Tel Aviv leaves seven dead.  

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss all this and more are Chitra Nagarajan, a writer and human rights activist specialising in Nigeria and Matthew Green, a climate journalist at DeSmog.

(IMAGE: A protester outside the Federal Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas. CREDIT: REUTERS/Annie Rice)

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