Sat Nov 19, 2022 – 3:35 pm EST
ATLANTA (LifeSiteNews) – A coalition of pro-life doctors and medical groups filed a lawsuit Friday hoping to revoke the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the suit by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, and physicians Shaun Jester, Regina Frost-Clark, Tyler Johnson, and George Delgado argues that the FDA’s 2000 approval of chemical abortions fraudulently characterized pregnancy as an “illness” for which chemical abortion was a “therapeutic,” while neglecting to study their actual harms.
“The FDA’s approval of chemical abortion drugs has always stood on shaky legal and moral ground, and after years of evading responsibility, it’s time for the government to do what it’s legally required to do: protect the health and safety of vulnerable girls and women,” said attorney Erik Baptist of Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the plaintiffs. “On behalf of the national health care organizations and physicians we represent, we ask the court to
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