Finally! Some common sense – and common ground – when it comes to drug-induced abortions.
At CatholicVote, we’ve always argued that opposition to abortion isn’t just a moral issue. It’s also a public health issue. And it seems the nation’s top public health advocate agrees.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services (and supporter of abortion rights), has asked FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to review the latest data on mifepristone — a.k.a. “the abortion pill.” It’s a natural candidate for consideration in his MAHA effort to make America healthy again.
To his credit, Commissioner Makary has said he is “committed to conducting a review.” And with 63% of abortions in America being conducted through chemical means (according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute), such a review couldn’t be more timely or urgent.
This is happening in response to a public outcry. In a recent letter, pro-life medical associations representing some 30,000 doctors urged that the FDA reinstate safety protocols around mifepristone that were lifted by the Biden administration. They cited new studies suggesting that hundreds of thousands of women have been harmed by chemical abortions.
That letter was preceded by a similar pro-life coalition letter, signed by 114 organizations including CatholicVote, urging the reinstatement of mifepristone safety protocols.
Safety standards for drugs are a regular part of life. In a world where pseudoephedrine, an over-the-counter nasal decongestant, is kept out of reach of consumers for fear kids might use it to produce recreational methamphetamine, why would we not take simple precautions to protect women and girls from the potential harms of mifepristone?
It’s time to change the abortion industrial complex’s “no rules for me” free ride it’s enjoyed for the last 60 years. Enough women have been maimed or worse.
You don’t get a free pass anymore.
When over 11% of women and girls who take mifepristone face the risk of hemorrhage, sepsis, or infection, we have to ask how the abortion lobby was granted permission to endanger the lives of women and girls alongside their unborn children.
We applaud both Secretary Kennedy and Commissioner Makary for their willingness to address health risks that have been ignored for no other reason than an ideological dedication to widespread and poorly regulated abortion access.
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Author: Kelsey Reinhardt
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