RFK Jr. Says He's Exploring A Crackdown On This Perfectly Safe Medication

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the caput of Health and Human Services, told Congress that he’s directed the Food and Drug Administration to reappraisal regulations astir the termination pill mifepristone, outraging reproductive rights advocates aft helium cited a flawed survey connected the wide utilized medication.

“I’ve asked Marty Makary, who’s the manager of the FDA, to bash a implicit reappraisal and study back,” Kennedy, a notorious skeptic and conspiracy theorist connected vaccines and different nationalist wellness matters, said of the medicine during a Senate fund proceeding Wednesday.

Makary is simply a erstwhile Fox News big known for claiming connected nationalist tv that fetuses tin “resist” an abortion.

Kennedy confirmed that immoderate determination connected the cause volition beryllium informed by a profoundly flawed study published past period by a blimpish deliberation tank, adjacent though experts accidental the alleged survey has a wide struggle of involvement and wasn’t peer-reviewed ― a baseline anticipation for probe utilized to change entree to a medicine that’s been utilized by millions of Americans to negociate their reproductive wellness for a quarter-century.

The wellness caput went connected to accidental that the caller report, which claims 11% of mifepristone users “experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging” aft taking it, is “alarming” and “clearly it indicates that astatine [the] precise slightest that the statement should beryllium changed.”

In summation to not being peer-reviewed, the study does not see its dataset and process codes, thing scientists told HuffPost past period is some unusual, and makes it intolerable for different researchers to afloat measure its methodology and the integrity of the report’s results.

Kennedy’s remarks were successful effect to questions from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who’s been starring the ongoing complaint to ace down connected mifepristone. He celebrated Kennedy’s effect connected societal media.

“That’s a triumph for life,” helium said, sharing a video of their exchange.

Reproductive rights advocates and experts accidental they’re profoundly disturbed by Kennedy’s comments.

“It is wide our rights are nether attack. RFK Jr.’s outrageous proposition that President Trump could determine whether radical tin entree medicine termination was lone the start,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said successful a statement, saying the study Kennedy referenced is wholly “bogus.”

Decades of probe connected mifepristone person produced galore peer-reviewed studies proving mifepristone to beryllium highly harmless and effective. It’s utilized successful 63% of each abortions, the Guttmacher Institute recovered past year, up a singular 10% from 2020.

“Mifepristone, similar each different medicine that is prescribed successful the United States, goes done a strict support process prioritizing the information and efficacy of the medication,” Ashley Jeanlus, an OB-GYN and chap with Physicians for Reproductive Health, said.

“Because of the stigma that termination attraction has successful this state acknowledgment to anti-abortion politicians and officials similar the ones discussing the fake-report today, mifepristone has undergone adjacent further scrutiny than different medications,” she continued. “As an termination provider, I cognize that attacks connected mifepristone are attacks connected the wellness and autonomy of the patients I attraction for each day.”

Kennedy’s comments Wednesday are successful enactment with what helium said during his confirmation hearings successful January: that President Donald Trump had directed him to survey the information of mifepristone.

“President Trump has asked maine to survey the information of mifepristone,” helium said. “He has not yet taken a basal connected however to modulate it. Whatever helium does, I volition instrumentality those policies.”

Although Kennedy’s directive poses wellness consequences for millions of people, helium admitted astatine Wednesday’s proceeding that he’s nary expert.

“I don’t deliberation radical should beryllium taking aesculapian proposal from me,” helium said three days aft advertizing that helium swam successful a sewage-tainted creek with his grandchildren.

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