Lawsuit Filed Against FDA to Block Access to Abortion Pill (1)

Abortion opponents sued the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday, seeking to overturn the agency’s decades-old authorization of a pill that induces abortions.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Amarillo, Texas by the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, claims that the FDA fast-tracked the 2000 approval of the drug called mifepristone using a process intended to authorize treatments for life-threatening illnesses -- and did so without sufficient scientific evidence in favor of approval.

“The FDA failed America’s women and girls when it chose politics over science and approved chemical abortion drugs for use in the United States,” ...