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PennLive: Hershey Doctor Blasts Perry, Other Pa. Republicans For Seeking Probe Of 25-Year Abortion Drug

A Central Pennsylvania physician is calling out Congressman Scott Perry for “risking women’s lives” as he seeks to restrict women’s access to reproductive care.

Perry – who celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade, has supported a near total national abortion ban that has no exceptions for rape or incest, and wants to impose restrictions on IVF – is now coming after Pennsylvania women’s access to mifepristone even though the medication “has been approved for 25 years.”

DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin:
“Scott Perry is an anti-abortion extremist who thinks that D.C. politicians know better than Pennsylvania women and their doctors. His latest effort to try and restrict access to the abortion pill shows he will stop at nothing to take away the freedom of women to make their own health care decisions.”

Read more from PennLive:
  • A Hershey physician insists U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and other Pennsylvania Republicans are “fear mongering” for calling on the Trump administration to investigate a long-established abortion drug.
  • Last week, Perry and six other GOP House members from Pennsylvania – Reps. Dan Meuser, Lloyd Smucker, John Joyce, Guy Reschenthaler, G.T. Thompson and Mike Kelly – asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary to ban mifepristone by mail and investigate the safety of the drug.
  • In their letter, the Republicans claimed that the Biden administration removed safeguards “to accomplish its radical abortion agenda.”
  • Mifepristone has been approved for 25 years.
  • Dr. Amanda Cai, a cardiologist specializing in cardio-obstetrics and a resident of Perry’s 10th Congressional District, responded to the letter in a statement from the Committee to Protect Health Care, a national coalition of physicians and healthcare professionals.
  • Mifepristone is “safe and effective for managing abortions as well as miscarriage care,” the committee said in its statement.
  • “I’m deeply concerned that my representative, Congressman Scott Perry, and other Republicans in Pennsylvania’s Congressional delegation are trying to eliminate access to essential reproductive care for women based on faulty science designed to push a conservative agenda rather than address any real public health issues,” said Cai.
  • “Pennsylvanians need to know that Scott Perry and other conservatives touting this so-called research are doing nothing more than fear mongering and gaslighting the public, and they are risking women’s lives while doing so,” she continued.

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