Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) improperly approved the commonly used abortion pill mifepristone.
While some Democratic members of Congress have called on President Joe Biden to ignore the ruling, U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) praised the decision for protecting women’s health and the lives of unborn children.
“This decision from the Northern District of Texas is a win for protecting women’s health and a crucial victory for defending life. As long as chemical abortion drugs are available,” Aderholt said in press release, “the lives of women and the unborn are at stake.”
The congressman chairs the House Values Action Team and the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
“As a Member of the House Appropriations Committee, the actions of the Food and Drug Administration in misusing its authority and expediting approval of this dangerous drug have been of great concern,” he said. “When this drug was approved over 20 years ago, it relied on flawed and irrelevant studies and failed to adequately study the dangers this drug posed for adolescent girls.”
Aderholt said he’s proud to have been a part of the fight to ban this abortion drug.
“I was proud to join 67 Members of Congress in signing on to an amicus brief led by my colleague, Congressman August Pfluger,” he said. “This amicus identified several key issues including the failure of the FDA to adhere to the drug approval process in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA); the unlawful waiver of the pediatric study requirement under the Pediatric Research Equity Act; and the violation of federal law by permitting mail-order chemical abortion pills.”
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine originally filed a petition against the FDA’s actions regarding the chemical abortion drug in 2002. The Biden Administration filed a notice of appeal Friday, and the case is to be heard before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
