Dozens of members of Congress are asking the Food and Drug Administration to classify the abortion pill Mifeprex as an "imminent hazard to the public health" that creates a "significant threat."
It should be removed from the market to protect both expectant mothers and their unborn babies, they charge in a letter to Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the FDA.
"We believe this deadly pill should never have been approved, yet the abortion industry was politically rewarded with an accelerated approval process normally reserved for high-risk drugs that address life-threatening illnesses like AIDS," stated the letter signed by more than 70 members.
"As you are surely aware, pregnancy is not a life-threatening illness, and the abortion pill does no cure or prevent any disease. Nevertheless, this pill that is specifically designed and intended to kill preborn children was raced to the market, with devastating consequences," the letter said.
Mifeprex, also known as mifepristone, has been marketed as a "quick fix" to pregnancies, the members of Congress said.
"In reality, the drug targets and kills unborn babies while putting pregnant mothers at-risk. In addition to killing 3.7 million unborn babies, this pill has caused 24 maternal deaths and resulted in at least 4,195 adverse maternal reactions such as hemorrhages and infections," they explained.
Now, because of a decision from "one rogue federal judge," women don't even have to see a physician before getting a prescription for the drug.
"While we support the FDA's continued fight to defend the REMS, to monitor dangerous clinical studies, and to shut down illegal websites, these measures alone fail to protect the thousands of women harmed even by compliant usage of this drug – or the millions of children killed," the letter said.
"To protect vulnerable women and children, we strongly urge the FDA to remove this deadly drug from the U.S. market and exercise its authority under 21 CFR ∫ 2.5, declaring it an imminent hazard to public health."
They praised Hahn's work to "stop the illegal trafficking of mail-order abortion pills into U.S. commerce by foreign companies like Aid Access and Rablon."
And they condemned the "abortion industry's scheme to bypass the FDA's statutory authority to protect the health and safety of all Americans, by using the coronavirus threat as a ruse to eliminate the Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy" requirements.
They call for a closer examination of the "ethical practices" of Gynuity, which is associated with Planned Parenthood, and has been handing out abortion pills for several years.
"It is by now nakedly obvious that the abortion industry and its allies in the media, billionaire philanthropic circles, and special interest groups, have wanted an unregulated and demedicalized abortion pill since the moment the FDA first approved it in 2000. … We believe this deadly pill should never have been approved."
Among the organizations endorsing the letter are Live Action, Susan B. Anthony List, March for Life, Family Research Council, Samaritan’s Purse, Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, American College of Pediatricians, Students for Life Action, Center for Family and Human Rights, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, Secular Pro-Life and the Restoration Project.
Live Action President Lila Rose said: "The FDA should never have approved a drug designed to kill the most vulnerable members of our communities. Medicine preserves life – it does not end life. In addition to killing millions of children, Mifeprex injures and kills women. The FDA should correct the egregious wrong it committed twenty years ago when it kowtowed to pro-abortion politics under the Clinton Administration and approved the drug. Today, the FDA should classify the abortion pill as the threat that it is -- an imminent hazard to the public health -- and removing it from the US market immediately."
Signers of the letter included Congress members Jody Hice, Andy Biggs, Michael Burgess, Kevin Brady, Doug Collins, Tom Emmer, Louie Gohmert, Jim Jordan, Mike Kelly, Steve King, Doug Lamborn, Bill Posey, David Poe, Ted Yoho and Gary Palmer.
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