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Pro-Life Group Puts FDA on Notice Over Abortion Pill Waste and Endangered Species

Students for Life of America, a leading pro-life advocacy group, released a letter Thursday announcing its intent to sue the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over alleged Endangered Species Act violations tied to pharmaceutical waste from the chemical abortion pill mifepristone.

In July, the group announced a peer-reviewed study published in Issues in Law & Medicine, a journal of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, that found significant levels of mifepristone in all but 1 of 9 sampling classes of water collected in three U.S. cities, including some tap water. After months of pressing the FDA over those contaminants, the group is taking another step by putting the agency on formal notice that it intends to sue.

“FDA is thus in violation of Section 7 of the ESA for failing to engage in consultation with the Services in connection with approving mifepristone and issuing REMS for it,” the letter states. “SFLA, its affiliates, and its members enjoy recreating, observing, and studying endangered species impacted by this decision and have plans to continue doing so in the future.”

“By failing to follow the substantive and procedural requirements of the ESA, FDA has injured and continues to injure SFLA, its affiliates, and their members. Per this notice, the ESA gives FDA 60 days to resolve these violations. If it does not do so,........

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