New York City-Run Clinics To Offer Free Abortion Pills Amid Lawsuit Against ‘Dangerous’ FDA Approved Drugs

New York City Mayor Eric Adams According to an agenda, four city-run clinics will offer free abortion pills starting tomorrow. “women’s health” In all five boroughs.

“For too long, health and health care has been centered around men,” Adams stated in a news release. “If men had periods, pap smears and menopause, they would get a paid vacation. And if men could get pregnant, we wouldn’t see Congress trying to pass laws restricting abortion.”

Adams, who said the city would become the model for women’s health care, detailed in the plan that the clinics dispensing the controversial pill would join public hospitals citywide that already offer medication abortion.

Together, the four sites could provide up to 10,000 abortion drugs annually to women in order to get around insurance issues and avoid paying bills that could have been caused by being admitted to hospitals.

The mayor’s announcement comes just 24 hours after nearly two dozen attorneys general sent a letter Federal Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf asked the agency to reverse its decision not to certify retail pharmacies that can dispense abortion pills.

The letter argues that the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs threatens women’s health.

“The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to abandon commonsense restrictions on remotely prescribing and administering abortion-inducing drugs is both illegal and dangerous,” The letter was read. “In direct contravention of longstanding FDA practice and congressional mandate, the FDA’s rollback of important safety restrictions ignores both women’s health and straightforward federal statutes.”

Such medications used to induce abortions, Mifeprex and its generic Mifepristone Tablets, are approved by the FDA for up to 10 weeks gestation, as a woman’s health risk reportedly increases after that time.

FDA officials first approved Mifepristone in 2000. “serious risks for women, including infection and bleeding,” The letter was pointed out.

Later, officials imposed several restrictions as part of the Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategie.

In November, four national medical organizations and doctors filed a lawsuit against federal government officials for illegally approving chemical abortion drugs. “harm” females.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the case, has accused FDA officials “illegally” It pushed for the legalization in 2000 of chemical abortion drugs misoprostol (mifepristone) and was a priority over science.

According to the group, FDA could not authorize drugs if it considered pregnancy an anemic condition. “illness” These drugs are argued to provide an advantage. “meaningful therapeutic benefit.”

Lawyers further allege the federal agency never studied the drug’s safety and the potential impacts it could have on blocking hormone development in adolescent female bodies.

“Pregnancy is not an illness, and chemical abortion drugs don’t provide a therapeutic benefit—they end a baby’s life and they pose serious and life-threatening complications to the mother,” Julie Marie Blake is senior counsel to the organization. news release. “The FDA never had the authority to approve these dangerous drugs for sale. We urge the court to listen to the doctors we represent who are seeking to protect girls and women from the documented dangers of chemical abortion drugs.”

Lawyers for Biden’s administration informed a federal judge Tuesday that the public would suffer if abortion pills weren’t made available.

“The public interest would be dramatically harmed by effectively withdrawing from the marketplace a safe and effective drug that has lawfully been on the market for twenty-two years,” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration submitted the information to U.S. district Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. Fox News reported.

The 1973 Constitution was rewritten in a historic manner. Roe v. Wade The Supreme Court ruled last summer that medication abortions were an acceptable alternative to abortion.

The following is an extract from the Guttmacher InstituteMore than half of all “facility-based abortions” These drugs account for approximately 5% of all deaths in the U.S. each year.