Cruz made the comment as part of a GOP push for the FDA to declare Mifeprex, or the "abortion pill," an "imminent hazard to the public health."
Sen. Ted Cruz came under fire after saying Wednesday on social media that pregnancy is not"life-threatening" when the U.S. has the highest maternal death rate out of the world's developed nations.
Story continuesMifeprex, a brand name for the drug mifepristone, has been one of the FDA most restricted drugs for decades, according to a recent Newsy investigation. One of two drugs used to perform a medication abortion, the FDA approved its use in 2000 under tight regulation. An FDA database showed that 24 out of 3.7 million women in the U.S. who had a medication abortion died between September 28, 2000 and December 31, 2018.
But a 2018 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, an independent organization, found"infection, hospitalizations and hemorrhage requiring transfusions occur in fewer than 1 percent of patients" who had medication abortions. Cruz's tweet about the letter received push back from many abortion-rights proponents on social media.
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