Senator introduces legislation to rein in widely used, controversial abortion pill

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced authorities Tuesday to standard backmost the fashionable termination cause mifepristone aft a caller survey revealed that 1 successful 10 women who utilized the medicine experienced "serious adverse effects."

The Restoring Safeguards for Dangerous Abortion Drugs Act would nonstop the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make safeguards connected the abortion drug mifepristone, let women who person suffered complications from prescriptions the close to writer telehealth providers and pharmacies for damages, and prohibition overseas companies from mailing and importing mifepristone into the U.S.

Hawley introduced the authorities "after a bombshell survey revealed the information astir mifepristone: it’s dangerous," the Missouri legislator told Fox News Digital. "The information shows 1 successful 10 women who instrumentality mifepristone acquisition adverse wellness effects, similar going to the ER oregon suffering from sepsis. The FDA needs to enactment to support women now."

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley introduces authorities to instrumentality safeguards for termination pill mifepristone. (Reuters/Getty)

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Hawley cites past week’s survey by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), which revealed successful its key findings that "10.93 percent of women acquisition sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, oregon different superior oregon life-threatening adverse lawsuit wrong 45 days pursuing a mifepristone abortion."

The survey assessed 865,727 security claims betwixt 2017 and 2023 for women who utilized the medicine to terminate aboriginal pregnancy. The pill tin beryllium taken up to "70 days since the archetypal time of their past menstrual period," according to the FDA.

The nonstop fig of women who person undergone a mifepristone termination since the FDA’s support nether the Clinton medication successful 2000 tin beryllium hard to calculate, arsenic immoderate pregnancies are terminated without authoritative aesculapian intervention. 

Demonstrators stitchery successful beforehand of the Supreme Court arsenic it hears oral arguments successful U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine connected March 26, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. The lawsuit challenges the 20-plus-year ineligible authorization by the FDA of mifepristone, a commonly utilized termination medication. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

The Guttenmacher Institute, a non-governmental enactment (NGO) which was erstwhile a portion of Planned Parenthood, estimates that determination were 1,038,100 clinician-provided abortions successful 2024, though this fig lone reflects "states without a ban". The estimation does not see the fig of abortions that occurred illegally oregon successful states wherever gestation termination laws vary.  

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At the clip of approval, determination were stricter parameters for administering the drug. However, the Obama administration’s FDA rolled backmost immoderate of these requirements successful 2016 by reducing the request for in-person visits, removing mandatory doc medicine requirements, and eliminating non-fatal adverse lawsuit reporting. 

Hawley sent a missive past week to Trump-appointed FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, whom Hawley questioned during the erstwhile Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor’s confirmation earlier the U.S. Senate.

Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced the Restoring Safeguards for Dangerous Abortion Drugs Act. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"[D]uring your confirmation hearing, you pledged to maine that you would ‘review the totality of the information and ongoing data’ to pass enactment connected the drug," Hawley's letter to the FDA caput explained. "I impulse you to travel this caller information and instrumentality each due enactment to reconstruct captious safeguards connected the usage of mifepristone. The wellness and information of American women beryllium connected it."

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The instauration of Hawley’s measure comes conscionable 1 time aft Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a Texas national judge to disregard a lawsuit that could restrict entree to the arguable pill. This determination mirrored a akin stance taken by the Biden medication to support a mifepristone suit retired of a Texas court.

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Preston Mizell is simply a writer with Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected X @MizellPreston