(Life News) Twenty-five states, 145 members of Congress, women harmed by chemical abortion, and a broad coalition of doctors and advocacy groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to hold the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accountable for unlawfully removing crucial safeguards for the use of abortion drugs.
As Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys explained in their brief filed with the high court last week, the FDA recklessly removed in-person doctor visits to check for ectopic pregnancies, severe bleeding, and life-threatening infections, as well as reporting requirements that provided women with better information about the serious risks associated with abortion drugs. ADF attorneys are asking the court to affirm the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit’s decision holding that the FDA acted unlawfully when it removed these crucial safeguards based on inadequate studies.
“Women should have the ongoing care of a doctor when taking high-risk drugs. The FDA’s own label for abortion drugs says that roughly one in 25 women who take them will end up in the emergency room,” said ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley, vice president of the Center for Life and regulatory practice. (Read More)
