{"id":234322,"date":"2020-11-10T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=234322"},"modified":"2022-04-21T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:00:33","slug":"fda-commissioner-abortion-pill-biden-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fda-commissioner-abortion-pill-biden-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA commissioner who helped get abortion pill to U.S. to co-chair presumed Biden COVID-19 board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Kessler, who was instrumental in bringing the abortion pill (mifepristone) to the U.S. market through his leadership at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has been chosen<\/a> to co-chair a COVID-19 advisory board for former Vice President Joe Biden, if he is officially sworn in as the next President of the United States.<\/p>\n

Kessler was appointed<\/a> Commissioner of the FDA in December 1990 under the administration of President George H.W. Bush and remained in place until February 1997 during President Bill Clinton’s administration.\u00a0In 1993, President Bill Clinton\u00a0signed<\/a>\u00a0an executive order directing the FDA to expedite marketing of the abortion pill, known then as RU-486. Kessler and others within the\u00a0Clinton Administration<\/a> reached out to pharmaceutical executive Edouard Sakiz of Roussel-Uclaf in an effort to bring the dangerous drug to the U.S. market.\u00a0Roussel-Uclaf was a subsidiary of Hoescht AG, the company that created<\/a> Zyklon B, the gas used to kill Jews and other victims of the Nazis during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n