Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary sent a letter to 22 Republican state attorneys general who'd previously requested an FDA review of the safety of mifepristone, a drug used to terminate pregnancy, Scripps News has learned.

The letter points to a study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank with ties to the Heritage Foundation and Project2025, that claimed to show that 11% of women taking the drug experienced "serious adverse events." The study was not peer reviewed; previous research cited by the FDA when approving the drug showed an adverse event incidence rate of just 0.5%.

Mifepristone is typically prescribed with another medicine called misoprostol. The drugs were appro

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