Far-right groups have asked to reverse the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, which has been on the market for decades
over time and now comprise at least 53% of abortions in the US, making it the most common choice for pregnancy termination.Photograph: Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
“The FDA is entrusted to protect the public from dangerous drugs but it has failed women and girls by approving these abortion pills without the basic levels of protection when evaluating for safety and effectiveness,” Erik Baptist, Alliance Defending Freedom senior legal counsel, tells the Guardian.
“Plaintiffs have pointed to no case, and the government has been unable to locate any example, where a court has second-guessed FDA’s safety and efficacy determination and ordered a widely available FDA-approved drug to be removed from the market – much less an example that includes a two-decade delay,”Greer Donley, associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and expert in FDA law, says the suit’s legal argument is rife with “falsehoods and mischaracterizations” of the...
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