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5. Ron Wyden insists abortion pills are safe
During his opening remarks, Wyden, the committee’s ranking member, expressed concern that Kennedy was open to “restricting access to the abortion [drug] mifepristone," which he claimed "remains a primary target of the Republican crusade against reproductive freedom.”
Wyden brought up how he first studied abortion pills as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. “The science was clear then, it’s even clearer today. Mifepristone is safe," he claimed. "The only reason it’s under question in 2025 is because people with a political agenda have been out lying about it.”
In response to Wyden’s assertions, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists warned in an X post that the abortion pill “holds the risk of potentially deadly complications, including hemorrhage and sepsis.”
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Dr. Ingrid Skop of the pro-life research organization Charlotte Lozer Institute offered a similar analysis in another X post: “Abortion drugs cause complications four times more often than surgical abortions and fail requiring surgery in at least 3-5% of cases, even when used as the [Food and Drug Administration] has directed.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
