FDA Defends Abortion Pill Approval in Response to Texas Lawsuit

A Texas judge should reject an attempt by abortion opponents to halt access to a pill that induces abortions, the FDA said in response to a lawsuit challenging the agency’s decades-old approval of the drug.

An order granting the motion from conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom to stop the distribution of mifepristone would improperly undo a “longstanding scientific determination based on speculative allegations of harm,” attorneys for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration wrote in a Jan. 13 court filing.

They added that a decision in favor of ADF would also ...