With Trump's nomination for Robert F Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services, many worry the drug used for medicated abortions is on the chopping block. “Under the statute that governs drug approvals, FDA is required to follow the scientific evidence of a drug’s safety and effectiveness,” Samuel Bagenstos, who served as HHS general counsel under former President Joe Biden and is a professor at the Ford School, told HuffPost. “Courts have rejected efforts to inject ideological considerations into those decisions.”
