One of the pharmaceutical industry’s central concerns is that if a judge can overturn FDA approval of Mifepristone, all drugs are vulnerable to similar rulings.
More than 300 current and former pharmaceutical industry executives signed a letter Monday opposing the ruling last week by a Texas federal judge that would reverse the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the most commonly used abortion pill.
One of the pharmaceutical industry’s central concerns is that if a judge can overturn FDA approval of this drug, all drugs are vulnerable to similar rulingsreads, adding that District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has “no scientific training.” The letter from pharmaceutical executives echoed those statements, saying mifepristone “has been proven by decades of data to be safer than Tylenol, nearly all antibiotics and insulin.”
“Judicial activism will not stop here,” the letter reads. “If courts can overturn drug approvals without regard for science or evidence, or for the complexity required to fully vet the safety and efficacy of new drugs, any medicine is at risk for the same outcome as mifepristone.” “This is an FDA approved drug. Whether you agree with its usage or not, that's not your decision. That is the FDA’s decision,”Other Democrats argue the best path forward is to continue to fight the ruling in the courts.
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