"Republicans are still pissed that the FDA approved telemedicine prescriptions of the drug in April 2021, following the height of the covid pandemic, and also that, in 2016, the agency approved the pill for use for up to 10 weeks. In 2023, mifepristone comprised nearly two-thirds of all abortions, which the GOP is also obviously pissed about. Project 2025 specifically says that one of its goals is to reverse the FDA's approval of the pill."
"He stated there are "all kinds of issues that are happening" with the pill and asked if there was any timing on the FDA's review. In June, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary promised a review after Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)-who also kind of looks like a praying mantis-spent two months amplifying the fake "study" from the far-right Ethics & Public Policy Center, a Project 2025 partner whose president is against marriage equality and IVF."
Far-right groups and Republican politicians have amplified a non-peer-reviewed study alleging that mifepristone is unsafe. Republican anger centers on the FDA's 2016 approval extending use to ten weeks and the 2021 allowance of telemedicine prescriptions. In 2023 mifepristone accounted for nearly two-thirds of abortions. Project 2025 lists reversing FDA approval of the pill as an explicit goal. Senators repeatedly raised concerns during a Finance Committee hearing, and Republican figures amplified the contested study to pressure the FDA into reviewing the drug despite the study's lack of mainstream scientific validation.
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