{"id":280106,"date":"2022-11-18T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=280106"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:36:09","slug":"doctors-health-sue-fda-approving-abortion-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctors-health-sue-fda-approving-abortion-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors, health care groups sue FDA for approving dangerous chemical abortion drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Alliance Defending Freedom, Amarillo, TX<\/a>) In the first lawsuit of its kind, four national medical associations and four doctors experienced in caring for pregnant and post-abortive women are suing federal government officials for illegally approving chemical abortion drugs that harm girls and women. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a\u00a0federal lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0Friday on behalf of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, and doctors Shaun Jester, Regina Frost-Clark, Tyler Johnson, and George Delgado.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration chose politics over science when it pushed for the legalization of the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000. The only way the FDA was able to approve the drugs was by characterizing pregnancy as an \u201cillness\u201d and arguing that these drugs provide a \u201cmeaningful therapeutic benefit.\u201d As the medical groups and doctors filing suit explain, by approving chemical abortion drugs, the FDA failed to abide by its legal obligations to protect the health, safety, and welfare of girls and women. The FDA never studied the safety of the drugs under the labeled conditions of use, ignored the potential impacts of the hormone-blocking regimen on the developing bodies of adolescent girls, disregarded the substantial evidence that chemical abortion drugs cause more complications than surgical abortions, and eliminated necessary safeguards for pregnant girls and women who undergo this dangerous drug regimen.<\/p>\n

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Today, on behalf of doctors & medical associations, we sued the FDA for failing to protect girls & women from dangerous chemical abortion drugs. <\/p>\n

In approving these drugs, the FDA ignored science and put politics first. That\u2019s a failure of the FDA\u2019s purpose … and it\u2019s illegal. https:\/\/t.co\/lmhMZrFAxJ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal) November 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n