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Solidifies the next battleground in the fight for preborn life. By John Stonestreet and Jared Hayden Last Thursday, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a case filed against the Food and Drug Administration for wrongfully expanding access to mifepristone, the first...
By Dave Andrusko On Thursday, National Right to Life News Today critiqued the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court that concluded that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lacked the legal standing to challenge decisions made by the FDA in 2016 and 2021 that made...
By Dave Andrusko In a unanimous decision written by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, the nine justices held that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lacked legal standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 that make...
Last week, I helped argue at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of pro-life doctors and their patients
The pro-life medical organizations that have long challenged the Food and Drug Administration’s approval and removal of abortion drug safeguards finally had their day in court.
Rising ectopic pregnancy rates are more dangerous in light of the widespread use of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, whose side effects include pelvic pain and bleeding—also the symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy.
At the heart of the discussion before the justices were (a) whether the Alliance had legal standing to file the lawsuit; and (b) the decisions in 2016 and 2021 made by the FDA that greatly weakened regulations of the abortion drug mifepristone.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument today regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decisions in 2016 and 2021 to loosen regulations of the abortion drug mifepristone and whether the challengers have standing to bring their case.
The FDA’s rationale for removing its prior safety standards for abortion drugs fails on its own terms.
The FDA has used unreliable data and inadequate scientific literature in its decisions to remove safety standards from abortion drug By Erik Baptist, Alliance Defending Freedom The FDA is required by federal law to ensure that drugs are “safe and effective.” Under the...