Attorneys General Clash Over Abortion-Inducing Drug
State attorneys general from both political parties are in a tug-of-war over a federal lawsuit filed by pro-life groups looking to reverse the FDA's approval of a drug typically used in abortion procedures. Leading the 22 Republicans is Attorney General Lynn Fitch, R-Miss., who argues that the FDA "undermined the public interest" in its accessibility of the drug mifepristone, one of the drugs used to induce abortions in pregnancies up to 10 weeks. In the lawsuit, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists claim the FDA abused its regulatory power in 2000 by approving mifepristone. Read more...