What: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary sent a letter to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) promising to investigate the abortion pill mifepristone. The letter was prompted by Sen. Hawley sending a conservative think tank’s “study” on abortion pill risks, which experts have dismissed for using wildly flawed methods. Makary’s response did not include any specific plans for the review.
Key Line: “The study does not clearly state the database… The research breaks down the ‘serious adverse events’ by category but places the majority of those events into a vague category called ‘other abortion-specific complications.'”
Source: The Hill