Opinion: The Supreme Court should be wary of revoking an abortion medication’s approval
have affirmed its safety. More than half of pregnancy terminations are now medication abortions, which are safer and avoid the logistical barriers of surgical procedures.If the Supreme Court sides with the lower-court judge and revokes authorization for mifepristone, it would force women to choose other methods of pregnancy termination. The current protocol for medication abortions is mifepristone combined with another drug, misoprostol.
None of these consequences would, as antiabortion activists claim, protect the health of women; rather, restricting a safe method of early abortion care would endanger women’s health. This is what I’ve maintained for years, including when I was: Banning abortion won’t stop abortions, but it would stop safe and legal abortions.
Even those ambivalent about reproductive rights should worry about the ruling’s implications because of the precedent it would set in undermining the FDA’s authority.“This would be the first revocation of an FDA-approved product by the courts,” Henney said. “The people who work at the agency, who are experts in their field, do their work with a high degree of professionalism and integrity. To have that be minimized or negated in some way — it troubles me a great deal.
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