Abortion is a very controversial topic, but drug safety isn’t.
Keeping America’s drug supply safe is a nonpartisan endeavor. Whatever one’s political leanings, everybody wants safe, effective drugs, and a full disclosure of known safety risks.
Because of that, the Food and Drug Administration is supposed to remain agnostic when it comes to politics, up to and including the politics of abortion, and base its decisions strictly on its mission of objectively making data-driven regulatory decisions based on safety and efficacy.
Is the FDA Behaving Recklessly?
Congress has granted broad authority to the FDA to determine what drugs are safe and efficacious, but its discretion is not limitless. When it comes to mifepristone (for abortion), the FDA has abandoned appropriate drug-safety practices by not mandating that manufacturers collect all evidence of how the drug harms…
