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Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in a letter sent to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) that it will not enforce long-standing restrictions on the distribution of abortion drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it will be possible to order the abortion pill regimen via mail, without an in-person medical consultation or supervision.

Founder and President of Live Action, Lila Rose, responds:

“Today’s decision is extremely reckless with women’s health and the lives of their preborn children. The abortion pill is not medicine or healthcare. The abortion pill was created to kill children, has caused a catastrophic death toll, and poses a serious threat to maternal health. Since the FDA first approved this drug, nearly 4 million preborn children have been killed. The FDA itself reports that at least 24 women have died from taking the pill. The FDA has also received over 4,000 reports of adverse events from women experiencing hospitalization, hemorrhage, excruciating abdominal pain, and severe life-threatening infections after taking the abortion pill regimen. The reality is that the ‘success’ of Mifeprex is a dead child. Real medicine does not result in a dead person. No nation should so endanger its most vulnerable members by sanctioning a drug explicitly designed to target and destroy them. Our leaders have a moral duty to stop the killing and ban this deadly drug.

“Because of today’s decision, women will be home alone delivering a dead child, unsure whether the volume of blood loss they see is ‘normal’ for the abortion procedure or them hemorrhaging and bleeding out. Unsure if the pain they feel is the ‘normal’ pain of the abortion procedure or pain from their ectopic pregnancy going undiagnosed and now threatening their life. Now, due to the utter carelessness of the FDA, the door has been opened for sexual predators to have the abortion pill delivered by mail so they can administer it to their victims and destroy the evidence of their sexual crimes.

“The FDA is out of line and the American people should respond en masse calling for them to pull the pill. In a move showing blatant disdain for the intellect of the American people, today’s letter from the FDA claims that the ‘small number of adverse events reported to the FDA during the COVID-19 public health emergency’ led to their decision. In reality, there is no requirement for the manufacturer of the pill, Danco Laboratories, or its generic, GenBioPro, to report any adverse reactions except death under REMS since 2016.  In addition, there are no federal laws in place to require or track abortion complications across all states.

“The pro-life movement must respond by shining a light on the reality of what the abortion pill does to a preborn child, highlighting the reality of Abortion Pill Reversal as a way to potentially save the child’s life, and work to ensure that the women we know never take the abortion pill or commit any form of abortion against their child.”

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