Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said Sunday that the Biden administration is considering defying a conservative federal judge’s order that suspends the approval of mifepristone, the nation’s most widely used abortion drug.

“We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,” Becerra said on CNN’s “State of the Union” of the ruling issued Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. “We want, yes, that women continue to have access to a drug that’s proven itself safe. Millions of women have used this drug around the world.”

Kacsmaryk, who was appointed to the Northern District of Texas by President Donald Trump in 2019, ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put a hold on its approval of mifepristone while a civil lawsuit over the medication’s safety proceeds.

Mifepristone received FDA approval in 2000 alongside another drug called misoprostol.

In a typical chemical abortion, the pregnant woman first takes mifepristone to block the hormone progesterone and thereby deprive the unborn child of nutrients needed to stay alive, and then takes misoprostol to induce labor to expel the dead child.