Dozens of Democratic and Republican attorneys general are taking sides in a legal battle, the outcome of which will decide whether two widely used chemical abortion drugs may still be sold in the United States with federal approval.
In the lawsuit, filed last November in the U.S. District Court in Northern Texas, conservative advocacy group Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine accused the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of ignoring science and law to appease pro-abortion advocates when the agency evaluated and eventually approved mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000.
Specifically, the Alliance claimed that the FDA never studied the safety of those drugs under the labeled conditions of use, disregarded the potential negative effects the hormone-blocking regimen has on pregnant girls, and removed the few safeguards that were in place….