Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America recently thanked a coalition of 22 attorneys general, including Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, for sending a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the agency’s “illegal and dangerous” policy on mifepristone, a chemical abortion drug.
Thank you to Alabama @AGSteveMarshall for leading a letter signed by 22 state AGs calling on the FDA to reverse its dangerous decision allowing pharmacies like @cvspharmacy & @Walgreens to dispense deadly chemical abortion pills. https://t.co/Jbsc6pP4ih
— SBA Pro-Life America | 72% 🇺🇸 support 15 weeks (@sbaprolife) January 19, 2023
Combined with misoprostol, mifepristone works as a chemical drug to end a pregnancy up to ten weeks gestation, as previously reported by The Tennessee Star. The medication as a pill is taken in two doses. In the first dose, mifepristone terminates a pregnancy by stopping progesterone production. Misoprostol, the second pill, induces contractions to expel the terminated pregnancy from the woman’s body.
Earlier this month, the FDA allowed retail pharmacies and mail-order services to distribute the chemical abortion drug treatment. Previously, patients could only receive mifepristone in person at a hospital, clinic, or medical office.
In response to the FDA’s policy reversal, a group of 22 attorneys general sent a letter to the agency demanding that the original policy on the abortion treatment be reimplemented.
“The problems with this change in policy are legion. Most importantly, the FDA has ignored its responsibility to protect health and safety by prioritizing a reckless pro-abortion policy over women’s health,” the attorneys general write.
“Though the FDA has abdicated its responsibility to protect women’s health, we have not. To be crystal clear, you have not negated any of our laws that forbid the remote prescription, administration, and use of abortion-inducing drugs. The health and safety of our citizens—women and children included—is of paramount concern. Nothing in the FDA’s recent changes affects how we will protect our people,” the letter said.
In response to the letter, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America praised the group of pro-life attorneys general.
The group’s state policy director Katie Glenn said in a statement, “We applaud Attorney General Steve Marshall and his colleagues for standing with women and unborn children against dangerous mail-order abortion drugs. State-level safeguards ensure that women receive screening and access to follow-up care, give informed consent, and are offered support and information about alternatives to abortion. The people have the right to protect life in their laws and the radically pro-abortion Biden administration cannot block that right.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Photo “Jonathan Skrmetti” by Tennessee Attorney General. Background Photo “Pregnant Woman” by Jonathan Borba.
