Women and all patients should have the ongoing care of a doctor when taking high-risk drugs. But the FDA abandoned its own safety standards and the health of women and girls when it allowed mail-order abortions. This means that women now perform their own abortions at home alone without ever having seen a medical professional. According to the FDA’s own label, roughly one in 25 women who use these drugs will require emergency medical attention for serious, even life-threatening, complications. The risks to women who take abortion drugs only increase without in-person screenings by medical professionals. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, comprised of organizations that represent more than 30,000 medical professionals nationwide, urges our colleagues to ensure the FDA is held accountable for endangering our patients’ lives and health.
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