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This ‘Terrifying’ Court Case Could Change Abortion Access - Again

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Medication Abortion

Mythopristone is one of two medications that is used to end an early pregnancy by medication. The FDA approved this drug 20 years ago and in fact it has a safety record of over 99%. So medication abortion is actually safer than Tylenol which is something we really need to make sure everybody understands because there's so much misinformation about it. If he rules in the favor of the right wing extremists who filed the case challenging the FDA and their authorization of Miffy Pristone it could halt production, domestic protection of this important medication abortion drug and immediately cease distribution.

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