(Baptist Press) Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore and more than 20 other pro-life leaders have called for the federal government to withdraw an abortion drug from the market because of its threat to women as well as unborn children.
In the Tuesday (July 28) letter, the pro-life advocates urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to categorize mifepristone, sold under the brand name Mifeprex, as an “imminent hazard to the public health.” The letter was sent barely two weeks after a federal judge halted during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic the FDA’s requirement the pill may only be dispensed in a medical setting, such as a hospital or clinic.
Mifepristone — often known as RU 486 and authorized by the FDA under President Clinton in 2000 — not only is approved for killing unborn babies in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy but is “highly dangerous for women,” the letter said. The pill “poses a four-times higher risk of complication” than first-trimester, surgical abortion, the pro-lifers said, citing information from the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG).