FDA Commissioner: “No Plans” To Pull Abortion Pill

Semafor reports:

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary said Thursday he has “no plans to take action” to restrict the availability of mifepristone, the pill used in most medication abortions in the US.

Speaking at the Semafor World Economy Summit, Makary took a firmer stance on the issue than he did in his Senate confirmation hearing last month, when he said he would “do a review of the data” and didn’t commit to specific action.

At the summit, though, Makary still left the door open to future action on the medication. “There is an ongoing set of data that is coming into the FDA on mifepristone,” he said. “So if the data suggests something or tells us that there’s a real signal, we can’t promise we’re not going to act on that data.”

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Dr. Marty Makary, the FDA commissioner, tells @IAmAmnaNawaz that he has “no plans to take action” on mifepristone, which is used in medication abortion.

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