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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,351 posts)
Thu May 15, 2025, 07:11 PM May 2025

RFK Jr. Says He's Exploring A Crackdown On This Perfectly Safe Medication

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, told Congress that he’s directed the Food and Drug Administration to review regulations around the abortion pill mifepristone, outraging reproductive rights advocates after he cited a flawed study on the widely used medication.

“I’ve asked Marty Makary, who’s the director of the FDA, to do a complete review and report back,” Kennedy, a notorious skeptic and conspiracy theorist on vaccines and other public health matters, said of the medication during a Senate budget hearing Wednesday.

Makary is a former Fox News host known for claiming on national television that fetuses can “resist” an abortion.

Kennedy confirmed that any decision on the drug will be informed by a deeply flawed report published last month by a conservative think tank, even though experts say the so-called study has a clear conflict of interest and wasn’t peer-reviewed ― a baseline expectation for research used to alter access to a medication that’s been used by millions of Americans to manage their reproductive health for a quarter-century.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-says-hes-exploring-215128097.html

WTF brain worm

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RFK Jr. Says He's Exploring A Crackdown On This Perfectly Safe Medication (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2025 OP
Oh, go soak your whole body in a polluted creek. milestogo May 2025 #1
Just a quibble but, Disaffected May 2025 #2
Gynotician Norrrm May 2025 #3
We all knew the reproductive rights would be at the forefront again. FloridaBlues May 2025 #4
Actual seer about climate change, Al GORE. was sidelined while this brain wormed one is in charge. UTUSN May 2025 #5
Very fitting for him to select Malarkey to prepare the review. Abolishinist May 2025 #6
Mifepristone is also used to save babies. Delmette2.0 May 2025 #7

Disaffected

(6,118 posts)
2. Just a quibble but,
Thu May 15, 2025, 07:30 PM
May 2025

RFK Jr. is not actually a "skeptic", notorious or not.

An actual skeptic bases his/her skepticism on logic and scientific evidence. Kennedy does neither so does not meet the definition.

Personally, I think "crackpot" should be the appellation of choice.

FloridaBlues

(4,646 posts)
4. We all knew the reproductive rights would be at the forefront again.
Thu May 15, 2025, 08:04 PM
May 2025

Just a matter of time.. on top of all the other corruption coming our way

UTUSN

(76,703 posts)
5. Actual seer about climate change, Al GORE. was sidelined while this brain wormed one is in charge.
Thu May 15, 2025, 08:13 PM
May 2025

Delmette2.0

(4,465 posts)
7. Mifepristone is also used to save babies.
Thu May 15, 2025, 10:15 PM
May 2025

This is to induce labor when the baby is over due or causing health problems for both baby and Mom.
I have never had a problem pregnancy. I do think I have a better idea about what might be the problem than he would.
I wish the men in this world would just leave women to take care of each other.
From dentists and dermatologist to pulmonary docs and obgyn's I have had the alll and happy to walk away.

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