[This is part three of a series on the first-of-its-kind federal lawsuit, Americans for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in which doctors and medical practitioners are asking the courts to hold the FDA accountable for its reckless and illegal approval of dangerous chemical…
n 2000, the Food and Drug Administration failed in its duty to protect the American public with its initial approval of chemical abortion drugs. But in the decades since, it has added insult to injury. Presented with two clear opportunities to correct course and protect American women and girls from these dangerous drugs, the FDA chose, both times, to ignore the evidence and silence the voices of concerned citizens.
In 2002, two professional medical associations filed a citizen petition, challenging the FDA’s initial approval and asking the agency to complete the studies it had neglected to perform, particularly the pediatric studies. The petition included dozens of pages of testimony and evidence of the dangers of chemical abortion.
Finally, in 2016, after nearly a decade and a half of silence, the FDA denied the citizen petition in a flurry of hand-waving. On the very same day, as a slap in the face to the many women who had been harmed by chemical abortion drugs since 2000, the FDA approved major and dangerous changes to the chemical abortion drug regimen in response to a request from Danco Laboratories, the corporation that manufactures chemical abortion drugs.
The FDA did all this despite the fact that chemical abortions have a complication rate of four times that of surgical abortions. It ignored the reality that at least 20% of women who use chemical abortion drugs will have to seek medical help afterward. In fact, the FDA facilitated the burial of those women’s stories. As part of the major changes, the FDA eliminated the requirement for healthcare workers to report nonfatal adverse effects from chemical abortion drugs.
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