{"id":35006,"date":"2025-09-27T20:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=35006"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:20:18","slug":"trump-admin-rfk-jr-moves-to-address-assess-safety-of-abortion-pill-after-years-of-fda-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/trump-admin-rfk-jr-moves-to-address-assess-safety-of-abortion-pill-after-years-of-fda-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin., RFK Jr., Moves to Address, Assess, Safety of Abortion Pill After Years of FDA Negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: The Gateway Pundit, originally published September 22, 2025, TheGatewayPundit.org<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration is taking long-overdue action to protect women from the dangerous abortion pill mifepristone, after decades of reckless approvals and loosened safeguards under Clinton, Obama and Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its approval in 2000, mifepristone has been used by an estimated 7.5 million American women to end an unborn child. The drug is a two-part process typically taken up to 10 weeks in the pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FDA has received reports of serious side effects from the drug.  By law, the FDA can require special safety rules, called a \u2018REMS\u2019 program, if a drug poses serious risks. Recent studies, including one mentioned by the attorneys general, suggest that women could be at risk if the drug is provided without enough medical supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notes that in one 12 year period, 2,740 \u2018adverse events\u2019 were observed with the abortion pill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a letter sent to state attorneys general, HHS Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary announced that the FDA is launching a full review of the abortion drug\u2019s safety. For the first time in years, federal officials are acknowledging what has been swept under the rug: thousands of women have suffered serious complications from mifepristone since its approval in 2000, including hundreds of cases of severe blood loss requiring emergency transfusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the letter from Secretary Kennedy to state Attorney Generals exclusively at the Gateway Pundit, here:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Secretary Kennedy had previously said\u00a0this past May<\/a>\u00a0that he was going to scrutinize the abortion pill. Left-wing groups like the\u00a0American Civil Liberties Union erupted<\/a>\u00a0at the potential that HHS would review and critically assess the health risks to women posed by the drug\u2019s side effects and complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FDA originally approved the drug in 2000 for use only through the first 7 weeks of pregnancy. But under the Obama and Biden administrations, restrictions were repeatedly loosened: first extending use to 10 weeks, then removing in-person doctor requirements, and even eliminating the obligation for prescribers to report most serious side effects. These changes put women at risk while shielding the true dangers of chemical abortion from the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior Democrat administrations have increasingly made the abortion pill more easily-obtainable and reduced the regulations around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n