Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 37 other amici filing an amicus brief in Missouri v. FDA, a case in which the state of Missouri and other pro-life states are challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) loosening of the safety protocols for the chemical abortion drug mifepristone, the use of which accounts for 60% of all abortions today in the United States. Among the changes, as of 2021, the FDA allows abortionists to prescribe mifepristone without an in-person visit to the doctor, which has resulted in the illegal mailing of abortion drugs into pro-life states.
The Department of Justice, representing the FDA, argued, as it has before in similar cases, that the states lack standing to sue. Yet, dropping the in-person requirements to obtain mifepristone virtually guarantees repeated violations of pro-life state laws that ban or limit abortions.
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