{"id":284654,"date":"2023-02-01T06:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=284654"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:49:05","slug":"75-pro-life-legislators-fda-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/75-pro-life-legislators-fda-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"75 pro-life legislators ask FDA to take abortion pill off the market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-life legislators have sent a letter<\/a> to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) stating their “profound opposition” to the FDA’s decision to allow retail and mail-order pharmacies to dispense the dangerous abortion pill. The pro-life lawmakers have asked the FDA to take mifepristone, the first drug of the abortion pill regimen, off the market.<\/p>\n

“The FDA’s action promotes dangerous do-it-yourself abortions by mail and telemedicine without ever seeing a doctor in person, and turns brick-and-mortar pharmacies and post offices into abortion centers,” states the letter. “Through this abuse of discretion, the FDA has put the profits and political agenda of the abortion industry over the science and clear evidence that abortion drugs present grave dangers to pregnant mothers and their unborn babies.”<\/p>\n

The lawmakers requested that the FDA “remove mifepristone from the market, or, at minimum, promptly restore and further strengthen the initial basic health and safety requirements for abortion drugs, and cease permitting the mailing and shipping of abortion drugs in violation of Federal criminal law.” The Comstock Act prohibits<\/a> the mailing of abortion-inducing drugs, which the FDA has now allowed and which the Justice Department has deemed<\/a>, in its opinion, acceptable\u00a0\u2014 some have said<\/a>\u00a0the DOJ is “choosing politics over science.”<\/p>\n

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The letter states that in removing the in-person dispensing requirements that the FDA placed on the abortion pill decades ago, the Biden administration “abandons pregnant mothers to suffer alone, without proper medical evaluation or oversight, potentially life-threatening complications, which can include severe bleeding, infection, potential surgical intervention, and even death.”<\/p>\n