RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban<\/p>\n
Kirsten Moore, director of the Expanding Medication Abortion<\/a> 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 \u201cmanufactured misinformation\u201d.<\/p>\n Moore said that reproductive rights supporters had long known that anti-abortion advocates \u201cwill stop at nothing to put mifepristone \u2013 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 \u2013 back under lock and key\u201d.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Conservatives are trumpeting a new abortion-pill study. One problem: it\u2019s bogus | Moira Donegan<\/p>\n 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 \u2013 which contradicts all previous tests of the drug and the resounding consensus of the medical field \u2013 was published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a rightwing advocacy group that aims to \u201capply the richness of the Jewish and Christian traditions to contemporary questions of law\u201d and \u201cpush back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives\u201d.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \u201cmanufactured misinformation\u201d. Moore said that reproductive … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[211,141,147,345,227],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion-organizations","tag-anti-abortion-strategy","tag-fda","tag-medication-abortion","tag-mifepristone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}