At Wednesday’s Senate confirmation hearing for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the agency, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (often simply called “RFK”) was grilled about what he would do about mifepristone, the controversial abortion pill approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000 and subsequently deregulated under Democrat administrations in 2016, 2021, and 2023.
Though RFK has identified himself as “pro-choice,” he told Senators that he believed that every abortion was a tragedy, and that he intended to implement Trump policy in that regard.
Responding to a question from Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) about the abortion pill, RFK said, “President Trump has asked me to study the safety of mifepristone. He has not yet taken a stand on how to regulate it.”
Given the opportunity to raise the issue once more when her turn to ask questions came around, Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) dramatically produced a stack of papers several inches thick for the cameras, telling RFK, “Here are the safety studies that tell us mifepristone is safe and effective.”
This was clearly for her, her fellow Democrats, and her media allies meant to be a “mike drop” moment where mifepristone’s safety or effectiveness was offered as “settled science” and any challenge to accepted opinion was swatted away as ignorant, unscientific, and ill-informed. This was the standard claim abortion advocates have repeatedly asserted over the years whenever challenged to the abortion pill arose. […]
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