Breitbart: 175 GOP Lawmakers Call on FDA to Reverse Biden Admin’s ‘Mail-Order Abortion Scheme’

U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) led 175 House Republicans in a letter demanding the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) undo the Biden administration’s “mail-order abortion scheme” and investigate the potential safety risks of abortion pills.

In 2021 under former President Joe Biden, the FDA removed the in-person dispensing requirement for abortion pills and allowed them to be sent via mail.  That action, combined with shield laws in blue states, have allowed abortionists to mail abortion pills into red states with laws protecting the unborn. In their letter on Thursday, GOP lawmakers urged HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to reverse course, especially in light of the FDA’s September approval of a generic version of mifepristone — the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen — and after a study was released in April suggesting abortion pill complications are 22 times higher than previously reported.

“As Members of Congress who share in the President’s vision for safeguarding life, protecting the health and wellbeing of American families, and ensuring that federal agencies act responsibly, we write to respectfully ask that the deleterious and grossly underreported effects on women of the drug mifepristone be aggressively investigated and decisive action taken to protect women from harm,” they wrote. 

“We also urge that immediate action be taken to, at a minimum, reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone,” they continued. 

Lawmakers said the Biden administration’s actions created a “no-contact, mail-order abortion scheme.”