Commentary: Banning abortion pill mifepristone would be a terrible policy choice and violate human rights
Patients’ access to lifesaving medicine is under threat because an anti-abortion rights organization sued in federal district court to overrule the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, which has been used to terminate early pregnancies for almost a quarter century in the U.S. If the judge, appointed by the previous federal administration, rules for the plaintiffs, a medicine considered essential by the World Health Organization will become illegal to distribute or use in the U.S.
How did we get here? In 2000, the FDA approved the drug mifepristone for
