{"id":418737,"date":"2021-04-13T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=418737"},"modified":"2021-04-13T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:28:11","slug":"fda-lifts-restriction-on-remote-prescriptions-of-abortion-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fda-lifts-restriction-on-remote-prescriptions-of-abortion-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Lifts Restriction on Remote Prescriptions of Abortion Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffda-lifts-restriction-on-remote-prescriptions-of-abortion-drugs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=418737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.157068062827\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Biden admin uses COVID to lift federal prohibition on telemedicine abortions<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1748.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1306382404-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1306382404-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1306382404-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-318.jpeg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/graham-piro\/\" title=\"Posts by Graham Piro\" rel=\"author\" class=\"text-red-700\">Graham Piro<\/a> \u2022 April 13, 2021 6:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"109.48167539267\">\n<p>The Biden administration cited the coronavirus pandemic to give the green light to at-home, self-administered abortions on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA said it will allow the prescription of an abortion pill, mifepristone, through the mail, reversing&nbsp;Trump administration restrictions on remote prescription of abortion drugs. The agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba-list.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/govdoc20210412-226601.pdf\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;that because &#8220;the in-person dispensing of mifepristone for medical termination of early pregnancy may present additional COVID-related risks to patients and healthcare personnel because it may involve a clinic visit solely for this purpose,&#8221; it will allow doctors and nurses to prescribe the medication remotely.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, sent on Monday to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, states that the agency will exercise &#8220;enforcement discretion&#8221; in allowing abortion medication to be prescribed without requiring an&nbsp;in-person doctor&#8217;s visit.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers warned against removing the requirement that the abortion medication be prescribed in person.&nbsp;Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) accused the Biden administration of exploiting the pandemic to advance the interests of the abortion industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This move by the FDA is just using COVID-19 as a cover to dispense abortion-inducing medication remotely,&#8221; Sasse said. &#8220;We are over a year into this pandemic with health care largely returning to&nbsp;safe, in-person&nbsp;delivery. This isn\u2019t about pandemic caution\u2014it\u2019s a political move to increase abortions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) said the agency should be focused solely on the coronavirus pandemic rather than using COVID-19 to achieve political goals.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"13\">\n<p>&#8220;By choosing to waive safety requirements and best practices, the Biden Administration is doing the bidding of the radical pro-abortion lobby to make it easier to get abortion-inducing drugs at the expense of the lives of unborn children and the health of mothers,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;The FDA should be focused on ending this pandemic, not children\u2019s lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Republican-controlled states including&nbsp;Montana, Oklahoma, and Texas have passed legislation to restrict&nbsp;access to remote prescriptions of abortion medication. But Democratic states have moved to ease regulations and even limit a doctor&#8217;s involvement in the procedure. On Monday, Democratic Hawaii governor David Ige signed a bill to allow registered nurses to provide abortion medication or services in the first trimester of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life groups criticized the administration for facilitating access to drugs that have been linked to adverse effects. The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba-list.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Deaths-and-Severe-Adverse-Events-after-the-use-of-Mifepristone-as-an-Abortifacient-from-September-2000-to-February-2019-copy5.pdf\">20-year study<\/a> beginning in 2000 that found that side effects from the drugs included&nbsp;severe bleeding, ectopic pregnancies, and other life-threatening conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pro-abortion activists have exploited the COVID-19 pandemic from the beginning, working to eliminate safety precautions in order to expand the proliferation of dangerous chemical abortion drugs,&#8221; SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser said. &#8220;This is flagrant and dangerous disregard for the health and safety of American women and girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Activists said the FDA&#8217;s actions could jeopardize the health of women who suffer such side effects.&nbsp;Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, said the administration valued &#8220;ideology over health and science.&#8221;&nbsp;Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, said the rules could delay a woman&#8217;s access to urgent care from a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this action, the Biden administration has made it clear that it will prioritize abortion over women&#8217;s safety. Allowing unsupervised chemical abortions via telemedicine, without requiring timely access to medical care, will put women in grave danger,&#8221; Mancini said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden admin uses COVID to lift federal prohibition on telemedicine abortions  Getty  Graham Piro \u2022 April 13, 2021 6:25 pm The Biden &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312131,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1748.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"FDA Lifts Restriction on Remote Prescriptions of Abortion Drugs","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1748.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"FDA Lifts Restriction on Remote Prescriptions of Abortion Drugs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}