CV NEWS FEED // Pro-life leaders are responding to the Supreme Court oral arguments taking place this week about the chemical abortion pill mifepristone.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, issued a statement on March 26 after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case, U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine.
“We express our strong support and gratitude to the brave doctors and for the brilliant work of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and their lead attorneys—Erin Morrow Hawley and Erik Baptist—for tirelessly seeking to hold the FDA to account for unlawfully removing critically important safety regulations designed to protect women from injury and death from the chemical abortion drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol,” Smith said, according to a National Right to Life article.
LiveAction President Lila Rose said in a statement released March 26 in anticipation of the SCOTUS hearing, “Women need ongoing medical support when dealing with high-risk drugs, and the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold the 5th Circuit’s judgment, which holds the FDA accountable for its unlawful failure to protect the health and safety of women and girls.”
Slamming the FDA for promoting “DIY abortions without ongoing medical oversight,” Rose highlighted that 2.9% to 4.6% of women who take mifepristone require emergency medical attention, according to the FDA’s safety label of the drug.
“The FDA should never have approved this drug to begin with, as its only intended use is to kill a human being,” Rose said. “By recklessly removing in-person visits during which blood work could be performed, dangerous ectopic pregnancies could be ruled out, and gestational age could be verified, women may be suffering unnecessary complications and potentially life-threatening infections.”
In his press release, Smith noted the same FDA-published statistic, adding, “Women’s health matters and the FDA is required by law to do better.”
Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins posted her reactions to the oral arguments on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Kudos to [ADF] Erin Hawley who had to explain to #SCOTUS that if you’re running to the Emergency Room after taking deadly Chemical Abortion Pills & are bleeding out, that’s a BAD thing,” Hawkins wrote in a March 26 post. “Emergency Surgery isn’t really a minor complication… It’s the business plan for handling known complications.”
In a separate post, Hawkins praised Hawley for making “the brilliant point that the ONLY way the FDA can say that there are no ‘adverse events’ is by ignoring emergency surgeries. The FDA and Danco’s disdain for suffering women is not a reason to allow them to ignore the problems.”
