Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Planned Parenthood, accusing it of misleading women about the dangers of medicated abortions to cut costs and increase revenue at the risk of women’s health and safety.
The Food and Drug Administration noted in 2016 that in preclinical studies, between 2.9% and 4.6% of women who took mifepristone and misoprostol, the two-drug cocktail used for medicated abortions, needed treatment in emergency rooms. About 85% of patients reported at least one adverse reaction after taking the drug, “and many can be expected to report more than one such reaction,” the FDA said.
“The national Planned Parenthood organization is actively endangering the lives of women and girls across the country by spreading lies and disinformation about the powerful chemical abortion drug,” Bailey said in a news release.
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