These violative drugs
A European organization that provides doctor-prescribed abortion pills by mail is under order by the US Food and Drug Administration to stop deliveries.
The federal agency sent a warning letter to Aid Access this month requesting that it “immediately cease causing the introduction of these violative drugs into U.S. Commerce.”
“Violative” is not a word.
“The sale of misbranded and unapproved new drugs poses an inherent risk to consumers who purchase those products,” the letter says. “Drugs that have circumvented regulatory safeguards may be contaminated; counterfeit, contain varying amounts of active ingredients, or contain different ingredients altogether.”
Translation: the drugs may do what they’re supposed to do and we have orders to put a stop to that.
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Aid Access, did not respond to a request for comment on the new letter. But last fall, soon after her work went public, she said that safety concerns about Aid Access and the medications it prescribes were “totally unfounded.” She insisted that everything she does “is according to the law” and that the FDA’s restrictive handling of abortion medication is “based on politics, not science.”
What politics? The politics of making sure women are not free to define their own lives.
In a one-month period in 2017, research published last year showed that there were nearly 210,000 US Google searches for information about self-abortion. This indicates a demand for alternatives, perhaps driven by barriers to clinic access due to financial hardship, geographic distance, fear of being publicly shamed or other reasons.
Ya think?
According to the FDA, of the 3.4 million patients who’d taken mifepristone to medically terminate their pregnancies from when the agency approved it in 2000 through December 2017, 22 died: an average of 1 in about 155,000 women. Meanwhile, calculations from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that in 2016, 1 in 5,600 women died as a result of their pregnancies.
Gee. It’s almost as if pregnancy is more dangerous than taking the abortion pill.
But never mind that, that’s not the point. The point is to keep women enslaved.
The FDA won’t lift a finger to regulate the supplement and woo ‘medicine’ industries, but medication with an effective track record is “violative” and can’t be allowed. Got it.
Under a law passed during the Bush 2 administration that ‘deregulated’ the supplement market, the FDA can’t do much even if it wants to. IIRC.
Bruce,
Wow I wasn’t aware of that. Was a bit too young during Bush 2 I suppose and missed it. Good to know.
There has also been a tendency to claim that drugs from other countries are not regulated, and are dangerous to our citizens. This is an attempt to keep Americans from buying drugs from places where they are cheaper than here (which is almost everywhere) while at the same time thumb a nose at socialized medicine as being inferior (but seriously, isn’t drug regulation a major feature of government run medicine? The very idea of regulated drugs is often anathema to these free marketers, right up until they can use it to prop up drug profits or keep women from controlling their own reproduction).