Special Encounter // Dr. Ingrid Skop and Katie Glenn Daniel

Christian talk radio with Various Speakers

Last November the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), challenging their approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, also known as RU-486. The lawsuit alleges that the FDA, among other things, failed to abide by its legal obligations to protect the health, safety, and welfare of girls and women. The FDA never studied the safety of the drugs under the labeled conditions of use, ignored the potential impacts of the hormone-blocking regimen on the developing bodies of adolescent girls, disregarded the substantial evidence that chemical abortion drugs cause more complications than surgical abortions, and eliminated necessary safeguards for pregnant girls and women who undergo this dangerous drug regimen. Dr. Skop and attorney Katie Glenn Daniel discuss the lawsuit and its implications.