{"id":287415,"date":"2023-03-17T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287415"},"modified":"2023-03-20T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:40:16","slug":"doctors-fda-abortion-pill-decades-medical-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctors-fda-abortion-pill-decades-medical-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors suing FDA say agency is responsible for ‘two decades of dangerous medical negligence’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doctors involved in\u00a0Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), <\/em>a federal abortion pill lawsuit,\u00a0claim they see women with severe complications \u2014\u00a0“many who presented to the emergency room” \u2014 and they are requesting that the FDA pull the drug from the market. The case<\/a> was heard<\/a>\u00a0this week by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was initially filed in November of 2022\u00a0on behalf of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), a nonprofit membership organization representing nearly 30,000 health-care professionals including major medical groups such as the American College of Pediatricians, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations. The group\u00a0sued\u00a0the federal government for “illegally approving chemical abortion drugs that harm women and girls.”<\/p>\n

At a press conference following arguments before the court, Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Erik Baptist and Dr. Donna Harrison\u00a0(Chair of AHM), reiterated their case against the FDA.<\/p>\n

Baptist stated, \u201cYesterday, I represented the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and seven other clients in federal court to correct a wrong that is long overdue\u2026 As time has gone on, the FDA has ignored the warnings from our clients about these drugs and has rolled back safeguards that make these drugs even more dangerous to take.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThe FDA never studied the safety of the drug regimen and disregarded clear evidence that the pills cause life threatening complications. As a result of ignoring the science, women and girls became victims of the FDA\u2019s reckless, agenda-driven approval.”<\/p>\n

Baptist argued that the FDA \u201cstonewalled\u201d his clients requests in their Citizen Petition warnings to the FDA about the drug \u201cwith procedural games for nearly two decades\u201d and Baptist added that \u201cThese drugs cause harmful complications in women that the FDA blatantly ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n