(The Hill) -- Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced that the black box warning on women’s estrogen-based products for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) will be removed.

"For more than two decades, the American medical establishment turn[ed] its back on women. Millions of women were told to fear the very therapy that could have given them strength, peace and dignity through one of life's most difficult transitions, menopause," Kennedy said at a press briefing held at the HHS headquarters.

"That ends today," he added. "The FDA is initiating the removal of a broad black box warning [on] hormone replacement therapy products for menopause."

The announcement was attended by his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, Kennedy's daughters as well as second lady

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