RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, said on Wednesday that he had directed the FDA to review the regulations around the abortion pill mifepristone. For example, it counts ectopic pregnancies – when an embryo implants somewhere other than the uterine lining – as a serious complication. Project 2025 calls to end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills as an “interim step” to revoking mifepristone’s approval altogether. During his January confirmation hearing, Kennedy said that Trump asked him to review mifepristone’s safety data. The FDA commissioner, Marty Makary, said in March that he, too, would “do a review of the data”, and would act if necessary.