About a dozen House Republicans are calling for leaders at the Food and Drug Administration to be fired over the agency’s approval of a new abortion pill — and they want it to happen as part of the administration’s planned layoffs during the government shutdown.
The lawmakers — led by Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina, a staunch anti-abortion ally — wrote to Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asking that the director of the Office of Generic Drugs, the director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and “other bureaucrats responsible for this reckless decision” be a part of the administration’s planned reduction-in-force.
“This approval is particularly alarming given that just weeks prior … you publicly announced that the FDA would undertake a thorough review of the safety of abortion pills,” the House Republicans wrote in the letter. “The approval of a generic version of this dangerous drug not only contradicts the announced review, but also runs directly counter to this Administration’s stated pro-life agenda.”