Alexis McGill Johnson says the bill spreads misinformation about a safe and effective medication
President and chief executive of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, in a statement reported by MS NOW
“This is yet another effort from abortion opponents to restrict access to care and spread even more misinformation about a safe and effective medication that millions of people have used.”
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Source for Bill Cassidy's response as chairman of the committee holding the bill, John Cornyn's "All in" post on X, Chuck Schumer's reaction, and Alexis McGill Johnson's statement. Also records that spokespeople for Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski did not respond to questions about the bill, and that the two were the only Republican senators who declined to sign a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services calling for a mifepristone crackdown.
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Mifepristone has been approved in the United States since 2000 and the FDA has said it has identified no new safety concerns with the drug.
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Hawley's asserted complication rate was drawn from a non-peer-reviewed paper that more than 250 reproductive health researchers criticised.
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Case context: Should Congress ban the abortion pill, mifepristone, as Josh Hawley has proposed?
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The case's fixed reference point is Hawley's proposition that Congress should ban mifepristone by revoking its federal approval. McGill Johnson rejects the proposition and its evidentiary basis together. The closest competing label is challenges_characterization, since much of the sentence contests Hawley's factual account of the drug's safety. That loses because the passage also condemns the legislative effort itself as a restriction on care, which is a substantive rejection of the conduct under scrutiny and not merely a dispute about how the drug is described.
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