St. Louis, Mo., Nov 22, 2022 / 10:00 am
A group of doctors and medical organizations, including the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, argue in a federal lawsuit that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “chose politics over science” when, over two decades ago, it approved the two-drug regimen collectively known as the abortion pill.
The Nov. 18 lawsuit, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division. Attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, and doctors Shaun Jester, Regina Frost-Clark, Tyler Johnson, and George Delgado.
In the more than 100-page lawsuit, the doctors argue that the FDA fast-tracked the approval of the abortion pill by classifying pregnancy as an “illness” and falsely asserting that abortion drugs provide a “meaningful therapeutic benefit” over surgical abortions, neither of which is the case, they say. They also note that the FDA has not performed studies on the effects of abortion drugs on minor girls.
The plaintiffs hope to persuade the federal court to issue a preliminary and permanent injunction ordering the FDA to withdraw mifepristone and misoprostol as FDA-approved chemical abortion drugs. Among other serious concerns, the plaintiffs present evidence that women and girls who take chemical abortion drugs experience significantly more complications than those who have surgical abortions.
Credit: Source link
