Not only do these abortion pills kill the unborn, they are also extremely dangerous for the women who take them. Let’s pray about this.
From The Epoch Times. A bloc of national medical associations and doctors focusing on caring for pregnant and post-abortive women is suing federal officials, claiming they illegally approved chemical abortion drugs that they say harm girls and women. …
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) placed “politics over science when it pushed for the legalization of the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000,” according to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a public interest law firm specializing in religious freedom cases.
“The only way the FDA was able to approve the drugs was by characterizing pregnancy as an ‘illness’ and arguing that these drugs provide a ‘meaningful therapeutic benefit,’” ADF said in a statement.
By greenlighting the chemical abortion drugs, the FDA ignored its legal obligation to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of girls and women, ADF said. The agency never studied the safety of the drugs, ignored the potential impacts of the hormone-blocking regimen on the developing bodies of adolescent girls, disregarded evidence that these drugs cause more complications than surgical abortions, and eliminated necessary safeguards for pregnant girls and women who undergo “this dangerous drug regimen.” …
“[Our] lawsuit seeks to have the court order FDA to follow the science, put politics aside, and withdraw chemical abortion drugs from the market nationwide,” [ADF Senior Counsel Julie Marie] Blake told The Epoch Times in an interview. …
“There are laws that say that you can’t have mail-order abortion. Instead, the FDA removed safeguards and said you can mail order these chemical abortion drugs.”
The agency ignored laws that say there have to be studies of the drugs on pediatric populations before they can be approved for use by girls going through puberty, she said. …
The legal complaint (pdf) in the case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was filed Nov. 18 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas as court file 2:22-cv-223. …
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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Getty Images)