ACLU sues FDA for records on abortion pill review

FDA’s abortion-pill safety review under growing scrutiny

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shown here in September, cited a white paper funded and self-published without peer review by anti-abortion groups as grounds for federal scrutiny of a key abortion medication’s safety. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is facing increasing pressure from abortion opponents and advocates over how it regulates a drug that has become central to …

FDA Hit With 2nd Lawsuit Over Needless Abortion Pill Investigation

Under our brain-wormed HHS secretary RFK Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary (who has called the U.S. “underbabied”), the FDA has been incredibly dodgy in its proceedings and its reliance on junk science, including using a far-right “study” to baselessly launch an investigation into the abortion bill mifepristone—the second of two pills taken during a medication abortion. On Thursday, the ACLU sued the FDA for revealing close to nothing about …

ACLU sues FDA for records on abortion pill review

The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, filed a lawsuit Thursday to compel the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, to disclose records related to the agency’s review of its regulations on mifepristone, a medication used in most U.S. abortions. The lawsuit seeks to enforce the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, request, filed in August, which seeks information about the scope of the review along with any communications between the FDA and …