Democrats push FDA to lift restrictions on abortion pill
After a Supreme Court ruling last month that allowed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reimpose regulations requiring an in-person doctor visit before a woman can obtain abortion pills, Democrat lawmakers are pressuring the FDA to rescind the ruling.
Democrat members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, the main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, penned a letter to the FDA, asking the regulatory body to “immediately eliminate the medically unnecessary in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone,” a drug used to kill a preborn child.
As things stand, the FDA stipulates that mifepristone “must be ordered, prescribed and dispensed by or under the supervision of a healthcare provider” who meets certain qualification standards. Additionally, the drug may only be dispensed “in clinics, medical offices, and hospitals,” also under the supervision of a qualified...