RFK Jr. launches FDA review of abortion pill

[riversedge]

Source: abcnews



Medication abortion is used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S.

By Cheyenne Haslett September 24, 2025, 8:00 PM


Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Republican states this week that the FDA would conduct a new review of abortion pills, a move that abortion rights advocates say could lead to significant restrictions on the most common abortion method nationwide.

Medication abortion is used in nearly two-thirds of abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group focusing on sexual and reproductive health. It is also the primary way that abortions continue in states where abortion is banned, largely because of telehealth appointments and shield laws, which allow some providers in other states to mail abortion pills to women in states with bans without fear of prosecution.

Republicans and anti-abortion advocates have been pressing the Trump administration to change the FDA's rules around mifepristone, an oral drug typically used in combination with another drug, misoprostol, to induce an abortion or to help manage an early miscarriage.

If access to the pill were restricted, either by banning telehealth access or narrowing the window when women can use it, it would significantly cut back on abortion access in post-Roe v. Wade America, where at least 16 states have ceased nearly all abortion services.....................




Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/health-secretary-rfk-jr-launches-review-abortion-pill/story?id=125908299

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We knew this was coming!!

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[yardwork]

1. He's creating government policies to fuel his personal injury business.

It's disgraceful self-dealing. There used to be laws against this in the U.S.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. He should announce a review of epsteinaminophen. . . . . nt

[Efilroft Sul]

8. It relieves headaches, but side effects include a lack of impulse control and an urge to commit statutory rape.

[TommieMommy]

3. OMG 😱 leave us women alone. Stop messing with our bodies. 😡

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Next on his list:

Birth control pills
Hormone replacements

[mdbl]

6. Who's doing the review?

Wouldn't surprise me if it was some quack he hired that was banned from the AMA.

[MissMillie]

10. This is the proper question

I'd be willing to bet that a bonafide, scientific review wouldn't change anything at all.

I'm betting that a bonafide, scientific review is not what we're going to get.

[NNadir]

7. I kind of wish the drug had been available to Ethel Kennedy and she'd been wise...

...enough to use it.

[barbtries]

9. women will die. nt

[roscoeroscoe]

13. Hope this gets squashed

Big push back please, y'all!

[Ray Bruns]

11. This is why you don't put a heroin addict in charge of the nation's health.

[Bayard]

14. That's the end of that then

Anything the brain worm turns its attention to gets warped.

I wonder how many women who made the mistake of sleeping with trump have had abortions, and how many that were raped. He certainly never cared, or paid for them.

[WestMichRad]

15. Guess what the result of their "review" will be?

Don’t puzzle over it too long. There’s a preordained outcome.

The only suspense is what bullshit reasons they’ll invent to say it’s a health risk and that previous safety studies are incorrect.

[Orrex]

16. "but I don't like the way she laughs."

[Grins]

17. Right now I'm thinking of all those women...

...in Red and purple states who turned out in droves to vote on state ballot initiatives to protect abortion - and then turned right around and voted for Trump. On the same ballot!

If they had voted for the woman opposing Trump - this would not be a problem, and Trump would soon be facing prison.

[Gimpyknee]

18. Here we go.

Elections have consequences.

[yankee87]

19. Say goodbye

Back to the kitchen. Might as well get used to having zero rights again.
I need some hope for this country.

[maxsolomon]

20. 22 Repuke AGs requested the review. Brain Worm's all to happy to oblige.

A key study cited by Republicans in their effort, and Kennedy and Makary in their response letter, was conducted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think-tank whose president formerly worked at the Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025.

The study was not peer-reviewed and was published by the center on its website, not in a scientific journal. It found that almost 11% of women experienced a "serious adverse event," which is much higher than the 0.5% rate found in clinical studies and listed by the FDA on the medication label.

The fix, shall we say, is in.

[sinkingfeeling]

21. The FDA approved the abortion pill 25 years ago.