AOC and Democrats Want to Overturn Pro-Life Rule and Kill More Babies in Abortions
National Micaiah Bilger Feb 9, 2021 | 4:56PM Washington, DC
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats are putting pressure on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to end a vital safety requirement for the abortion drug mifepristone.
In a letter this month, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock to stop requiring that the abortion drug be provided in-person, Politico reports.
The abortion drug mifepristone, coupled with a second drug, mifeprostol, is used to abort unborn babies up to 10 weeks of pregnancy in the United States. Because of the risks to the mother, the FDA requires abortion facilities to administer mifepristone in-person after an examination.
Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayana Pressley, D-Massachusetts, and others said the safety regulation is “medically unnecessary†and should be eliminated immediately.
“Imposing this requirement in the midst of a deadly pandemic—one that has disproportionately impacted communities of color across the United States—needlessly places patients and providers in harm’s way, and further entrenches longstanding health inequities,†they wrote in the letter.
But even the pro-abortion Obama administration kept the safety requirement in place when it expanded the use of the abortion drug in 2016.
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