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Groups seek to bar abortion pill
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 22nd, 2002
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Christian Medical Association and Concerned Women for America argued that FDA bent its own rules in approving Mifeprex, including eliminating safeguards required during the pill's testing.
The groups called the drug dangerous for women, citing FDA's report last April of five Mifeprex users with health problems, including two who suffered ruptured ectopic pregnancies, one fatal.
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