“Under your leadership, HHS and FDA can reverse this wrong,” write top Republicans in the House of Representatives.
By Catholics for Catholics
Republican Congress members are asking the Department of Health and Human Services to impose much stricter regulations on a lethal abortion pill designed to kill unborn babies, claiming that a growing body of evidence shows that these drugs are also causing severe harm to women.
In a letter first acquired by The Daily Wire, New Jersey Rep. Christopher Smith and Tennessee Rep. Diana Harshbarger call on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to “at a minimum, reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone.” Until 2023, the FDA mandated that abortion drugs should be administered to women under a doctor’s supervision.
“Today, abortion drugs account for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States; there are over six hundred thousand abortions committed using these drugs each year,” the lawmakers write. “The Biden FDA’s reckless, no-contact, mail-order abortion scheme is to blame. Abortion providers are reaping increased profits, while women and their unborn children suffer irreparable harm.”
“The need for urgent investigation and review of this drug comes in the wake of the Biden-Harris administration’s egregious action to remove critical safeguards that once applied to abortion drugs, and the FDA’s approval of a new abortion drug generic in September 2025,” write the 175 lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN).
“Under your leadership, HHS and FDA can reverse this wrong,” they conclude. “We urge you to immediately reinstate the REMS requiring in-person dispensing of mifepristone and to expedite the promised review by the FDA into the dangers of abortion drugs.”
According to The Wire, the move is important since President Joe Biden’s administration approved the removal of safety standards on the drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic, permitting women to easily get the drugs at home. Pro-life supporters have long contended that women are endangered just by taking the abortion drugs, but they are even more concerned about women taking the drugs on their own.
The GOP congressmembers say that new studies demonstrate that complications are “astonishingly higher than what is reported on the drug’s label,” the lawmakers say: “Even the current Obama FDA-approved label for mifepristone — which the data show understates the dangers to women — says that roughly 1 in 25 women who use mifepristone as directed will end up in the emergency room.”
“We join House and Senate Republicans in calling on the FDA to – at a minimum – immediately end Joe Biden’s legacy of mail-order abortion and restore the in-person doctor requirement that existed during President Trump’s first administration,” said SBA Pro-Life America’s head, Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Seven in 10 voters agree. We are deeply grateful to Reps. Chris Smith and Diana Harshbarger for leading this important letter, and to House leadership and every member of Congress who joined in standing for women and their unborn children.”
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