SBA Pro-Life America released a statement regarding the FDA approving a new generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone. They called the FDA’s reckless decision to make the drug more available “unconscionable.”
Even U.S. Senator Bill Cassedy (R-Louisiana) posted on X: “I fully support President Trump’s Pro-Life, Pro-Family agenda, but the FDA approving one more tool to kill babies is a betrayal.”
This is also happening in the midst of blue states pushing their liberal ideology onto college campuses by making abortion inducing drugs available to female students, reports Pregnancy Help News. California, New York, Massachusetts, and, more recently, Illinois have mandates requiring colleges and universities make abortion pills available on campus.
The AP reported information from the American Society for Emergency Contraception that, in June, 39 universities had emergency contraceptive vending machines, including the “morning-after pill,” and about 20 more institutions considering it.
Kesley Pritchard, political communications director for SBA Pro-Life America, says the FDA quietly approved a new generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone.
"As the government was about to shut down, they secretly and quietly issued this approval," says Pritchard. "It's a drug approved by Evita Solutions."
Pritchard calls it "a reckless decision by the FDA" and one that will "result in the deaths of more unborn children and in more women and girls going to the ER with serious complications" from these drugs.
Supporters of abortion have long argued that the abortion drug is safe. Pro-lifers say that's not true.
Dr. Brick Lantz, vice president of advocacy and bioethics at the Christian Medical and Dental Association, says the dangers of mifepristone are underreported. He says leftists always understate the risks, but mifepristone has caused bleeding, sepsis, infections, in worst case scenarios, even death and emotional trauma.
"We need to do better at collecting data on the harms of mifepristone, making sure that a woman gives full informed consent to be able to protect a woman greater, and even put some restrictions on mifepristone to assure the safety of mothers," says Lantz.
Pritchard also speaks of the multiple dangers mifepristone has on women.
"We know as many as 11% of women and girls who take abortion drugs end up having serious adverse reactions like hemorrhaging, infection, and sepsis. They need to go the ER, they need to be hospitalized, and they need emergency surgery," says Pritchard.
Those findings are from a study published earlier this year by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). At the time, SBA Pro-Life America was one of several pro-life organizations saying this is more reason for people not to push or take abortion drugs. The reports also informs that the abortion pill is 22 times more dangerous than previously reported by the Food and Drug Administration.
Pritchard asks that concerned citizens urge their state pro-life officials to realize this reckless decision from the FDA and make a change.
“It needs to be undone, and we must immediately reinstate the end of mail-border abortion drugs and we must ultimately pull the approval for all abortion drugs," says Pritchard. "I think it's very important for the administration to hear from conservatives and republicans, whether they're on the Hill or in the states and they're actually being affected by this because they cannot fully enforce the pro-life laws on the books in their states."
