The Trump administration is reviewing the safety protocols surrounding the abortion pill mifepristone as conservative states continue to restrict access, the Hill reported Wednesday.
In a letter sent earlier in September but published this week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary stated the agency may change the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy requirements due to recent studies questioning mifepristone’s safety. They added that HHS will conduct its own review of the drug.
Several states have made it easier to challenge those who bypass laws to get abortion pills. Texas now allows private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, ships or supplies abortion drugs for up to $100,000, though recipients using the pills themselves are exempt. In August, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent cease-and-desist letters to several organizations, ordering them to stop the advertising, sale, and shipment of abortion-inducing drugs into Texas.
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