The Misinformation Campaign Trying to Bring Down Abortion Pills

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An op-ed by Rachel Jones and PRH President & CEO Dr. Jamila Perritt.

Medication abortion is safe, effective, and widely accepted by patients and providers, which makes it a prime target for political attacks founded on misinformation. However, the newly Trump-appointed FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary claimed that he had “no plans to take action on mifepristone” in a PBS interview in late April. When pushed by reporter Amna Nawaz, Makary conceded that should new data come to light, the agency may then consider “taking action.” Four days later, the antiabortion organization Ethics & Public Policy Center self-published a new paper claiming that mifepristone is more dangerous than the current FDA label suggests. The timing of these events seems more than just coincidental, and the paper has subsequently received substantive (and well-deserved) skepticism from mainstream media and medical institutions.