"Under our brain-wormed HHS secretary RFK Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary (who has called the U.S. "underbabied"), the FDA has been incredibly dodgy in its proceedings and its reliance on junk science, including using a far-right "study" to baselessly launch an investigation into the abortion bill mifepristone-the second of two pills taken during a medication abortion. On Thursday, the ACLU sued the FDA for revealing close to nothing about any of this, and called on the agency to comply with the Freedom of Information"
""We demand transparency from the Trump administration and its anti-abortion allies, because this threat to our reproductive freedom cannot continue in secrecy," Rachel Reeves, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, said in a statement. "The people of this country deserve to know whether the Food and Drug Administration is following the science on medication abortion or simply following the whims of anti-abortion.""
Under HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, the FDA relied on questionable science and used a far-right study to launch an investigation into mifepristone. The ACLU filed a lawsuit demanding the FDA comply with the Freedom of Information Act and disclose details of the investigation. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a separate FOIA suit in September seeking the same records. The FDA has not responded to ongoing FOIA requests. Mifepristone is characterized as safe, reportedly safer than Viagra and Tylenol, and accounted for one in four U.S. abortions in 2023, aided by shield laws.
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