Do Abortion Pills Actually Need FDA Approval?

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Last week a federal judge in Texas refuted the FDA approval for mifepristone, a pill used for medication abortions, which would suspend that approval across the country. But some experts say - plenty of drugs don’t have FDA approval, and are still widely distributed… from baby formula, to multivitamins. Guest: Rachel Rebouché, dean and James E. Beasley professor of law at the Temple University Beasley School of Law and faculty fellow at the Center for Public Health Law Research. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.0	Mifapristone is a tiny pill with a big reach.
1:10.9	I read things about medication abortion all the time and I think, oh wow, I've no one
1:15.7	ever looked at what these pills really are.
1:17.5	So they're the size of normal pills.
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