RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban
Kirsten Moore, director of the Expanding Medication Abortion Access Project, told the Guardian she was not surprised by either the existence of a plan to restrict the drugs or that the push is based on what she called “manufactured misinformation”.
Moore said that reproductive rights supporters had long known that anti-abortion advocates “will stop at nothing to put mifepristone – a safe, effective FDA-approved medication that has been used for 25 years in this country to end a pregnancy at 10 weeks or less – back under lock and key”.
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Conservatives are trumpeting a new abortion-pill study. One problem: it’s bogus | Moira Donegan
As if on cue, a conservative thinktank published a new study just days later that purported to find that mifepristone caused serious adverse effects in more than 10% of patients. The study – which contradicts all previous tests of the drug and the resounding consensus of the medical field – was published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a rightwing advocacy group that aims to “apply the richness of the Jewish and Christian traditions to contemporary questions of law” and “push back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives”.
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