Abortion Drug Makers Admit They Care About Money, Not Women
The court ruled mifepristone makers’ ‘potential financial losses pale beside ... interest in not exposing women to unsafe medical procedures.’The court ruled mifepristone makers’ ‘potential financial losses pale beside ... interest in not exposing women to unsafe medical procedures.’Appeals Court Blocks FDA Policy That Let Abortionists Traffick Deadly Illegal Drugs By Mail
A study last year found serious adverse effects caused by mifepristone abortions are 'at least 22 times as high' as the drug's label admits.‘Study’ Claiming Mail-Order Abortions Are ‘Almost Exclusively’ Legal Is Fake News
Abortion proponents will argue the JAMA study shows mail-order abortions are 'almost exclusively' perfectly legal. They're not.Dozens Of Pro-Life Groups Urge DOJ To Stop ‘Siding With’ Abortion Pill Industry
'When abortion drugs are available through the mail, there is no accountability, state laws are made impotent, and women and girls are hurt.'My son is fighting for his life. The FDA doesn't seem to care.
I’ve been fighting Duchenne muscular dystrophy for 40 years. My brothers Angelo and Antonio died from it at ages 20 and 22, respectively. Antonio died in 2015, when my son, Ryu, was barely a toddler and had already been diagnosed with the same terminal illness.
My childhood memories are of praying for my brothers, caring for them with my mother, and Mom taking all five of her kids to church almost every day. I always asked God to heal my brothers, and — after Ryu was born — I added him to those prayers.
I’ve been saying the same prayer for help and to be able to lend my voice for over 40 years.
But I also went to God with another prayer — I asked that He would open the door that allowed me to share our family’s story. I didn’t know what that looked like, or when it would come, but I trusted in it.
This year, that prayer was answered when I was asked to speak out not just on behalf of my brothers and son, but for every family that feels isolated because of a terminal rare disease.
I visited Washington, D.C., to share my story with lawmakers from both parties as well as patient advocates and to ask them to push the Food and Drug Administration to stop standing in the way of drugs like Elevidys, the only gene therapy treatment for my son’s illness.
The advocacy worked. I can’t say how much my own small voice, speaking up for the first time, helped, but so many people speaking out made a difference.
The first indicator was when the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Dr. Vinay Prasad announced his resignation from the FDA just a week later — he leaves this month. Prasad blocked treatments, with the support of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, that could have helped kids like Ryu all across the country to live.
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I’m just a mom. But we recently celebrated Easter, where a carpenter saved the world. He overcame the establishment of His time, which was willing to throw the vulnerable and sick to the side. He fell, but He didn’t falter — I hope to follow His example.
As we were approaching Holy Thursday this year, Ryu was having a hard evening. He needed his Bipap machine to help his lungs function, as he so often does. But he looked at me — my 14-year-old wheelchair-bound boy who is the happiest kid I know — and said, “Mom, this sucks. But what you’re doing makes it a lot easier.”
My story may not matter to FDA Commissioner Makary, who seems to have forgotten about Ryu and thousands of other kids like him. But God sees every hair on our heads. He named us before our parents knew us. And sometimes, like Gabriel told the prophet Daniel, prayers are answered long before we see their fruition.
I’ve been saying the same prayer for help and to be able to lend my voice for over 40 years. To the world, Antonio and Angelo may be long deceased, but they are the foundation for how my husband and I have cared for Ryu. And God has allowed me to carry their stories from my home in El Paso to our nation’s capital.
Commissioner Makary and Dr. Prasad may have forgotten that their job is to save lives, but God seems to have different plans. He’s just getting started with me in spreading His good news, and so far it has been amazing.
But I’m also not surprised, because I knew God would take care of it all.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Christian Post.
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Gov. Braun described himself as 'kind of agnostic' on medical marijuana, but the health risks of loosening regulation are too great.Majority Of Voters Want Tighter Abortion Pill Safeguards, New Poll Shows
More than two-thirds of Americans indicated they are against Biden-era Food and Drug Administration rules that allow women to receive dangerous abortion pills without seeing a doctor in-person first, according to a new poll reported Wednesday. Polling conducted on behalf of the 85 Fund and obtained by The Daily Wire reveals a large majority of […]Senate Republicans Probe Mifepristone Manufacturers Over Mail-Order Abortion Scheme
The Republicans also sent a letter demanding the FDA ‘take immediate action’ to keep unapproved abortion drugs from being marketed.Exclusive: Republicans investigate 'obscure' abortion pill companies over alleged illegal sales, safety concerns
Republican senators are launching an investigation into several abortion pill manufacturers to combat the alleged dangers and illegal distribution of these drugs, Blaze News has learned.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, is leading the investigation against "obscure" abortion manufacturers like Draco Laboratories, Evita Solutions, and GenBioPro. Cassidy, who is a physician, slammed these manufacturers for allegedly hiding the harmful reality of taking abortion pills and for allegedly failing to act within basic safety parameters imposed by the Food and Drug Administration.
'Women deserve real medical care, not drugs dispensed through anonymous websites.'
"Chemical drugmakers profit off killing innocent children while putting mothers' lives at risk," Cassidy told Blaze News. "These manufacturers and websites have facilitated the explosion in online sales of these harmful drugs without the regard for women's health and safety, while opening the door for coercion and abuse."
"FDA should act within its existing authorities to curb this abuse and immediately reinstate safeguards such as the in-person dispensing requirement."
Cassidy, alongside Republican Sens. Steve Daines of Montana, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, penned inquiries to the three manufacturers requesting all documents, data, and relevant materials detailing the production and use of these abortion drugs. The lawmakers also alerted the FDA about potential violations.
This investigation also gained the support of prominent pro-life activists like President of National Right to Life Carol Tobias, who said the letters "raise serious and long-overdue questions about whether federal protocols are being followed — and whether women are being put at risk as a result."
"Women deserve real medical care, not drugs dispensed through anonymous websites with little to no oversight," Tobias told Blaze News.
"Data show that one in ten women who take abortion pills experience serious complications, yet basic safeguards have been stripped away," Live Action President Lila Rose told Blaze News. "Women and their children are being put at risk."
Activists like Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, also pointed out the alarming rise of abortion drugs in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, potentially putting more women at risk and opening the door for abuse and coercion.
"Abortion numbers are up, not down after Dobbs, driven by mail-order drugs flooding the states without regard for their laws,” Dannenfelser told Blaze News. “We are now at over 1.1 million abortions per year. Companies whose sole source of revenue is abortion drugs — which carry a black box warning — are raking in millions, while their inherently risky, abuse-prone drug sends thousands of women to emergency rooms, enables abusers, systematically kills countless unborn children, and brazenly undermines democratically enacted state protections."
"Their disregard for even the few remaining safety standards — and the lack of transparency around these secretive entities — is deeply troubling," Dannenfelser added. "Chairman Cassidy and fellow pro-life senators are boldly confronting this crisis head-on, demanding real accountability and safety for women and girls. It’s time for the FDA to act.”
Draco Laboratories, Evita Solutions, and GenBioPro did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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