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Washington D.C. – Operation
Rescue is pleased to announce it has joined the Alliance for
Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) in its battle against the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) for its reckless loosening of restrictions on the
chemical abortion drug Mifeprex.
The American Center for Law and Justice has filed an amicus brief on behalf of Operation Rescue and
West Virginia Right to Life in support of the Alliance for Hippocratic
Medicine in the appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit.
“Operation
Rescue has worked for decades utilizing peaceful, legal strategies for
exposing illegal violations of abortion clinics and abortionists that
endanger women and end the lives of preborn babies,” said Operation
Rescue President Troy Newman. “We have been extremely disheartened by
the neglect and refusal of various agencies to enforce health and safety
regulations, and the FDA’s actions are certainly not an outlier to that
disappointment.”
Specific
to chemical abortion, Operation Rescue has been instrumental in
documenting the dangers of the drugs for many years. Incomplete
abortions, hemorrhaging, and ruptured ectopic pregnancies are all common
complications. Even the FDA has acknowledged that at least 32 women
have died after taking the abortion inducing drugs since 2000.
The original 113-page AHM lawsuit on
which the appeal is based, filed in November 2022, argues that the FDA
failed “to abide by its legal obligations to protect the health, safety,
and welfare of women and girls when the agency authorized the chemical
abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol for use in the United States
and subsequently eliminated necessary safeguards for pregnant women and
girls who undergo this dangerous drug regimen.”The U.S. Supreme Court
will hear oral argument on the appeals filed by the FDA and Danco
Laboratories, the manufacturer of the drug, on March 26, 2024, according
to the monthly argument calendar.
“We
look forward to seeing judicial evidence that our nation protects
vulnerable citizens instead of recklessly endangering women to achieve
its political goals,” added Newman.
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