Anti-abortion organizations are challenging the abortion pill’s FDA approval. 

An HHS representative defended the drug as secure and efficient. 

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The new Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith has one significant advantage regarding the several criminal investigations looking into the former president Donald Trump: recent history. 

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The FDA chose not to comment on the legal dispute. According to an HHS spokeswoman, the drug is safe and effective, and depriving women of any necessary care is excessive and hazardous. 

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The case: According to the ADF’s legal representatives, the FDA exceeded its power by giving the medicine its approval 22 years ago. 

Erik Baptist, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, said in a statement that “the FDA’s approval of chemical abortion drugs has always stood on shaky legal and moral ground, and after years of avoiding 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.” 

Background: Abortion pills, frequently supplied via telemedicine, have become a tool for persons seeking to end their pregnancies in states with abortion bans or limitations to do so since the Supreme Court returned abortion rights to the conditions in June. 

The FDA allowed doctors to prescribe mifepristone through telemedicine last year and mail the pills. 

Advocates for abortion rights want the agency to claim that any state restrictions or prohibitions on abortion are invalidated by its decisions to authorize medications. 

Numerous significant conservative legal actions, such as Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission in 2018, were supported by the Alliance Defending Freedom. In that case, the Supreme Court issued a narrow decision in favor of the client of ADF, a Christian baker who refused to serve a same-sex couple.

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