A group of 175 Republican lawmakers is urging the Trump administration to launch a robust investigation into the abortion drug mifepristone, warning that “grossly underreported” complications are putting women at risk.
In a Nov. 20 letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary, the signers demanded a full inquiry into the drug and the restoration of in-person dispensing requirements. As CatholicVote has reported, the Biden administration scrapped in-person dispensing requirements to allow the pills to be prescribed via telehealth and sent through the mail.
“Today, abortion drugs account for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States; there are over six hundred thousand abortions committed using these drugs each year. The Biden FDA’s reckless, no-contact, mail-order abortion scheme is to blame,” the lawmakers wrote. “Abortion providers are reaping increased profits, while women and their unborn children suffer irreparable harm.”
They cited a recent Ethics and Public Policy Center analysis estimating that serious adverse events — including sepsis, infection, and hemorrhage — occur in about 11% of cases, a figure the authors say is 22 times higher than the FDA’s label suggests. The lawmakers argue the risks are “severe, widespread, and significantly underreported.”
“These drugs are sent across state lines with no physician oversight, and without appropriate screening to ensure that bad actors are not secretly poisoning women without their knowledge or forcing women to take abortion drugs against their will — a clear indication that radical pro-abortion activists care more about protecting abortion access than about upholding women’s health and safety,” the lawmakers wrote.
CatholicVote has covered numerous cases in which mail-order abortion pills have been allegedly used as tools of coercion and to secretly drug women.
The push comes amid backlash from pro-life groups over the FDA’s September approval of a generic mifepristone version.
The letter is signed by the entire House GOP leadership, including Catholic Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who said in a press release he looks forward to working with Kennedy and Makary to protect women and children from mifepristone.
“The carelessness of Biden’s FDA has taken and harmed thousands of lives, the unborn and their mothers alike,” Smith said. “Now that President Trump — the most pro-life president in U.S. history — has taken the executive helm, we are confident that his effective and life-affirming administration will work to undo the Biden-Harris administration’s dangerous and ill-conceived policies with reference to the increased accessibility and reduced medical oversight of chemical abortion drugs.”
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