The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) supports Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s (SBA Pro-Life America) call to Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, whose hearing for his nomination is scheduled for next week, to settle Rosalie Markezich’s case.
SBA Pro-Life America sent a letter to Blanche about the case. Markezich is a plaintiff in Louisiana v. FDA. Her boyfriend used her personal information to obtain mifepristone by mail and coerced her to take it. Her baby died. From the letter (PDF):
“We grieve with Rosalie because many of us recognize parts of our own stories in hers: the pressure, the confusion, the fear, the absence of real medical care, and the feeling that the system was designed to move drugs faster than it was designed to protect women. No woman should be forced, pressured, deceived, or abandoned into taking drugs that end her child’s life and place her own health at risk.”
SBA Pro-Life America blames the FDA’s mail-order drug scheme for this. CURE agrees.
The FDA hasn’t done a safety review of mifepristone in over 25 years. Despite this, the FDA has expanded access to the drug and approved a generic version.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration allowed women seeking the drug to see a doctor through telehealth appointments and not in person. And women could obtain these dangerous drugs through the mail.
States have filed lawsuits against the FDA, and the U.S. Department of Justice tried to have them dismissed.
SBA Pro-Life America has proof of harm. Just recently, a U.S. Army captain slipped the abortion drug to a woman pregnant with his child. He’ll spend 12 years locked up for his heinous crime.
“These are inherently dangerous drugs that do not belong where they can easily get into the hands of abusers, said Marjorie Dannenfelser, SBA Pro-Life America president. “The courage of these women, increasingly coming forward to share th very personal suffering and advocate to spare others the same terrible trauma, cannot be understated.”
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