Democrat Rep. Cori Bush suggested that restricting access to abortion pills would be similar to “placing a ban on Tylenol.”
QUICK FACTS:
- Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) claimed Monday during an event led by House Oversight Democrats that limiting access to abortion pills was the equivalent of banning Tylenol.
- “These five pills are effective,” Bush said holding up a packet of abortion pills. “Medication abortion pills are safe again, effective again, no different from any other medication that’s safe and effective.”
- The leftist representative said the pills were a way for women to end their pregnancies “in the privacy of their own home where they’re not confronted by a hostile crowd of anti-abortion protestors harassing them and spewing hate.”
- “Medication abortion is a lifeline,” Bush claimed. “It’s a lifeline for the mom of two who can’t afford childcare. It’s a lifeline for the person who lives hundreds of miles away from the nearest clinic and doesn’t have reliable transportation … It’s a lifeline for the trans folks who face transphobia and bigotry because of anti-LGBT+ laws and outrageous bans on gender-affirming care.”
DEMOCRAT REP. CORI BUSH ON ABORTION PILLS BEING THE EQUIVALENT OF TYLENOL:
“Banning medication abortion would be like placing a ban on Tylenol, a ban on antibiotics. There is no valid medical reason to do so; it’s only political propaganda,” Bush said.
BACKGROUND:
- In April 2023, a federal judge paused federal regulators’ approval of the abortion pill “mifepristone” while a legal challenge proceeded.
- According to court documents, the 67-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, gave the Biden administration one week to appeal the decision.
- Used with another drug called misoprostol, mifepristone is approved to terminate a pregnancy within the first 10 weeks of a pregnancy.
- Some abortion providers have said that if mifepristone is unavailable, they would switch to a regimen using only misoprostol for a medication abortion.
- Four anti-abortion groups headed by the recently formed Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and four anti-abortion doctors sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claiming that the agency used an improper process when it approved mifepristone in 2000 and did not adequately consider the drug’s safety when used by girls under age 18 to terminate a pregnancy.
