Ramaswamy: Supreme Court should rule against FDA approval of abortion pill
Posted on AllSides December 14th, 2023
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that he believes the Supreme Court should overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Ramaswamy said at a CNN town hall in Iowa on Wednesday that the case, which the court agreed earlier on Wednesday to hear, is about the authority that regulatory agencies have without direct authorization from Congress. He argued that the FDA exceeded its authority in approving the pill in 2000.
“It’s my opinion… that the FDA exceeded its statutory authority in using an emergency approval to approve something...