{"id":251662,"date":"2021-08-23T08:38:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=251662"},"modified":"2021-08-22T23:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T04:05:16","slug":"abortion-pill-legislators-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-legislators-fda\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion legislators pressure FDA to permanently remove abortion pill safety protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When pro-abortion legislators and abortion advocates successfully pressured the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lift<\/a>\u00a0its decades-long REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy)\u00a0in the name of “safety” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, pro-lifers predicted<\/a> that the pandemic was being used as a cover for the real goal: eliminating the dispensing restrictions and other safety requirements altogether to increase abortion pill sales. Those fears were confirmed this week, as NBC News reported<\/a>\u00a0that on August 19, pro-abortion members of the House’s Oversight Committee “announced a resolution […] pressuring the Food and Drug Administration to permanently lift the in-person requirements” on the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

The in-person requirement that the abortion drugs (mifepristone and misoprostol) be dispensed by a licensed physician’s office is a safety measure intended to decrease serious complications. The drugs have historically only been given following an exam and ultrasound to accurately date the pregnancy and rule out an ectopic pregnancy — both vital to ensuring a woman’s safety.<\/p>\n

The Charlotte Lozier Institute blasted this prioritization of politics over women’s health, noting “Biden-Pelosi Democrats have exploited the pandemic as an excuse to roll back FDA safety regulations and turn every pharmacy and post office into an abortion center \u2013 a long-term goal of the radical abortion lobby. Now all pretense is removed. With at least a\u00a0fourfold higher rate of complications<\/a>\u00a0compared to surgical abortion, chemical abortion drugs are not safe for women or their unborn children. The profit-driven abortion industry would leave women to fend for themselves, without medical supervision, to face risks such as severe bleeding, infection, incomplete abortion, and in some instances even death.\u00a0Pro-abortion Democrats\u2019 agenda is reckless and extreme and the\u00a0strong majority of Americans<\/a>\u00a0oppose it. We are grateful to all our allies in Congress and the states who are truly following the science, fighting back by advancing legislation to safeguard the vulnerable.”<\/p>\n