I worked for the FDA and its dangerous, new decision will put mothers' and their childen's lives at risk

I worked for the FDA and its dangerous, new decision wasn’t clinical or scientific. It is thinly disguised partisan politics and will put lives at risk.

In fact, mifepristone is so unsafe that it could only be dispensed under the FDA's Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) protocol since 2011. REMS protocols are only issued to high-risk drugs which means that mifepristone is one of the rarely selected FDA-approved drugs that although approved, has unusual "serious safety concerns."   David Gortler, Pharm.D. FCCP, served as an FDA medical officer/analyst and FDA drug, device and vaccine safety expert, is now a Scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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"Mifeprex may be administered only in a clinic, medical office, or hospital, by or under the supervision of a physician, able to assess the gestational age of an embryo and to diagnose ectopic pregnancies."