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Pete Buttigieg Wants To Eliminate Restrictions On Abortion Drugs. The FDA Says That’s A Bad Idea
Daily Caller ^ | Dec, 9, 2019 | Mary Margaret Olohan

Posted on 12/09/2019 7:32:09 PM PST by Morgana

The Food and Drug Administration warned Monday that eliminating restrictions on abortion drugs, as 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg suggested, could cause “serious complications” for women.

The South Bend mayor suggested ignoring the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) applied to the abortion drug mifepristone in a Nov. 25 survey conducted by The New York Times. REMS is an FDA drug safety program the agency requires “for certain medications with serious safety concerns.”

“Steps we can take in the interim to improve access to abortion include expanding access to abortion via telehealth, eliminating the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) warning that ignores decades of evidence indicating that these medications are safe, and expanding the types of medical professionals able to prescribe them,” Buttigieg told The NYT.

He also said he would make mifepristone and misoprostol, another abortion drug, available over the counter.

But the FDA told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Monday that REMS is put in place to “mitigate the risk of serious complications associated with mifepristone for medical termination of early pregnancy.”

The REMS program mitigates these risks by “requiring healthcare providers who prescribe mifepristone to be certified in the Mifepristone REMS Program; ensuring that mifepristone for medical termination of early pregnancy is only dispensed in certain healthcare settings by or under the supervision of a certified prescriber; and informing patients about the risk of serious complications associated with mifepristone,” the FDA Office of Media Affairs told the DCNF. Primis Player Placeholder

The FDA Office of Media Affairs added that the REMS applied to mifepristone reflect the FDA’s conclusion “that certain distribution restrictions are necessary to ensure the safe use of the drug.”

Buttigieg’s campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionpill; fda; mayorpete; prolife; ru486

1 posted on 12/09/2019 7:32:09 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Buttplug is on the secular warpath.


2 posted on 12/09/2019 7:42:31 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Morgana

The use of this drug appears to have caused death for some women.

I’d suggest that anyone considering using it should do diligent research, and have ready access to an emergency medical facility.


3 posted on 12/09/2019 7:51:33 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

These drugs are legitimate drugs for abortion. An act that I absolutely abhor. They should only be used under the strict supervision of a physician. I most look forward to the day these drugs are not used for this horrific act. Oddly those same drugs have very legitimate places for other types of therapy aside from abortion They will be used until our laws are changed relative to abortion.

cpdiii (Clinical Pharmacist)


4 posted on 12/09/2019 9:27:54 PM PST by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: Morgana

Don’t worry, Buttgiggety; nothing you do can result in a pregnancy.


5 posted on 12/09/2019 9:59:55 PM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Morgana

“Oh, but he’s a moderate,” is the refrain I keep seeing...


6 posted on 12/10/2019 2:00:40 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Morgana

Pete just needs to retire to a dark place with his favorite butt plug and shut up


7 posted on 12/10/2019 3:52:44 AM PST by okie 54
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To: Morgana

There are plenty of FDA approved drugs that already cause Abortions, Heart Disease, Cancer, Neurological conditions, brain bleeds, etc. Cytotec will cause contractions that will cause an abortion.


8 posted on 12/10/2019 7:06:27 AM PST by GailA (Intractable Pain, a Subset of Chronic pain Last a Life TIME at Level 10.)
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