Four Democrat-led states have petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to lift all restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone amid reports that the agency is investigating the safety of the drug.
The attorneys general for California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York filed the petition Thursday with the Department of Health and Human Services to make it easier for clinicians to prescribe and dispense mifepristone. It is part of a two-drug cocktail with misoprostol that has been the only FDA-approved method for medicated abortions through 12 weeks of pregnancy since 2000. Medicated abortions account for 54% of all abortions in the U.S., according to the Guttmacher Institute.
“Federal restrictions on mifepristone are burdensome impediments to reproductive choice and are not based in science or medicine,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said Thursday in a statement. “The FDA has an opportunity to do the right thing and to eliminate barriers to access to this critical medication.”
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