Dr. Jamila Perritt answers Hawley's "the science is clear" with the same phrase
Obstetrician-gynecologist and president and chief executive of Physicians for Reproductive Health, in an organisational press release
“the science is clear: mifepristone is safe, mifepristone is effective, and mifepristone is still medically indicated”
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Official statement
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The response from a national physicians' organization, answering Hawley's safety claim on clinical grounds. Perritt's phrasing deliberately mirrors Hawley's own "the science is clear" formulation from the bill announcement.
Before the quotation
Hawley had said the previous day that "the science is clear: the chemical abortion drug is inherently dangerous to women and prone to abuse."
After the quotation
PolitiFact later reported that more than 100 peer-reviewed studies support the FDA's assessment that serious complications occur in under 0.5 percent of cases.
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Case context: Should Congress ban the abortion pill, mifepristone, as Josh Hawley has proposed?
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Why this label?
The case's fixed reference point is Hawley's proposition that Congress should ban mifepristone by revoking its federal approval. Perritt rejects the clinical premise the ban rests on, in a statement her organisation issued expressly as a response to the bill. The closest competing label is challenges_characterization, because on its face the sentence disputes a factual claim about the drug rather than addressing the legislation. That loses because the premise she rejects is the bill's sole stated justification, and the statement was issued as an objection to the bill; treating it as a narrow factual quarrel would understate a physicians' organisation's rejection of the proposal.
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