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Hawley unveils bill to ban abortion pill, strip FDA approval [View all]
WASHINGTON (CN) — Missouri Senator Josh Hawley rolled out new legislation Wednesday to immediately withdraw federal safety approvals for the medication abortion drug mifepristone.
It’s a measure that comes months after the Trump administration said it’s taking another look at the medicine’s safety — and years after the Supreme Court threw out a challenge to mifepristone’s longstanding status as an approved abortion medication by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Hawley argued it’s time for Congress to step in and address medication abortions, claiming pharmaceutical companies had pushed mifepristone despite what he claimed were the medicine’s “devastating health effects.”
“We’ve known for years that mifepristone is risky, but it’s really just in the last few years that we’ve learned this drug is inherently dangerous and it’s inherently prone to abuse,” Hawley said during a news conference.
Mifepristone, which has been permitted for use in certain abortions for more than two decades, has become the primary vehicle for the procedure in the years since the high court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to have an abortion. More than 60% of abortions took place in 2023 using abortion pills.
It’s a measure that comes months after the Trump administration said it’s taking another look at the medicine’s safety — and years after the Supreme Court threw out a challenge to mifepristone’s longstanding status as an approved abortion medication by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Hawley argued it’s time for Congress to step in and address medication abortions, claiming pharmaceutical companies had pushed mifepristone despite what he claimed were the medicine’s “devastating health effects.”
“We’ve known for years that mifepristone is risky, but it’s really just in the last few years that we’ve learned this drug is inherently dangerous and it’s inherently prone to abuse,” Hawley said during a news conference.
Mifepristone, which has been permitted for use in certain abortions for more than two decades, has become the primary vehicle for the procedure in the years since the high court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to have an abortion. More than 60% of abortions took place in 2023 using abortion pills.
https://www.courthousenews.com/hawley-unveils-bill-to-ban-abortion-pill-strip-fda-approval/
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