Since the early 1900s, the FDA has taken on diluted, doctored drugs and fake foods. While the agency’s reach has certainly expanded, its core mission remains the same: safeguarding American citizens from powerful corporate interests.
The FDA has often faced — or created — political conflict, but few agency policies remain more contentious than the regulation of mifepristone, the medication primarily used in combination with misoprostol for medical abortions. That’s unsurprising for a drug that treats healthy pregnancy like a disease and, when successful, ends a human life. But even leaving the ethics of these challenges to the side, the FDA must grapple with the question: Will it continue to allow the enormously lucrative mifepristone industry to run roughshod over the health and well-being of the
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