American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Medical Association et al., Amici Curiae
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Medical Association are joined by 14 other medical societies and academies. The following is excerpted from the Amici Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 30, 2024. At issue in this case are FDA regulations that allow clinicians to prescribe, and patients to access, one of the two drugs used in the standard protocol for medication abortion and miscarriage management, known in its generic form as mifepristone. Mifepristone is extremely safe. Over more than two decades, hundreds of medical studies and vast amounts of…
