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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Julia Musto

RFK Jr’s FDA to study if abortion pill mifepristone is safe despite it being on market for over 25 years: report

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reportedly opening up a politically-charged investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone — a drug long considered to be the gold standard for early medical abortions.

The investigation, spurred by conversations with anti-abortion groups and an October deadline from a Louisiana judge, is expected to take around six months, Trump administration officials told The Wall Street Journal Thursday night.

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