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FDA endangered women's health by removing key safeguards for high-risk abortion drugs

Student group seeks to defend US Dept. of Ed. free speech protections

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Friday on behalf of Ratio Christi, a nationwide Christian apologetics organization. The brief was filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Secular Student Alliance v. U.S. Department of Education, in which a secular student group is suing the federal government over a rule that protects the First Amendment freedoms of religious student groups on college campuses: “Universities are meant to be a marketplace of ideas ...

WHO: Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist; ADF client Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists; U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (NJ-04) and August Pfluger (TX-11) WHAT: Press conference hosted by U.S. Reps. Smith and Pfluger ahead of oral arguments in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine WHEN: 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March 21 WHERE: House Triangle in front of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: To schedule an interview, contact ADF Media Relations Specialists Hayden Sledge at ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist regarding a correction YouTube made to its “context” disclaimer on videos ADF posted on the platform explaining the serious harms abortion drugs can cause women. YouTube made the change after receiving a letter on Monday from 16 state attorneys general asking it to correct or remove the misleading disclaimer: “Women deserve to know the truth about the risks posed by abortion drugs, which is why first-hand accounts like the ones ADF posted on YouTube are so vital. Thanks to the leadership of state ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist regarding a letter Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, together with 15 other state attorneys general, sent to YouTube Monday asking it to correct or remove a misleading and inaccurate “context” disclaimer it put on multiple videos ADF posted on the platform explaining the serious harms abortion drugs can cause women: “Women deserve to know the truth about the risks posed by abortion drugs, which is why the first-hand accounts ADF posted on YouTube are so vital. Yet YouTube insists on misleading ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist regarding the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina’s decision Friday to prevent North Carolina’s pro-life laws from going into effect while the lawsuit, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Stein , continues: “Abortion is not health care, and North Carolina is free to protect the health and safety of women and girls in the state. The General Assembly reasonably enacted commonsense protections for women undergoing chemical and surgical abortions. North Carolina women deserve ...

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following hearing Monday

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pause a trial court decision that would have restored critical safeguards to chemical abortion drugs while the lawsuit seeking to reimplement those safeguards proceeds: “As is common practice, the Supreme Court has decided to maintain the status quo that existed prior to our lawsuit while our challenge to the FDA’s illegal approval of chemical abortion drugs and its removal ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist regarding a response ADF attorneys filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to the Biden administration’s emergency motion that asks the appeals court to stay a federal district court’s ruling that protects the health and safety of women and girls by halting the Food and Drug Administration’s illegal approval of chemical abortion drugs while the lawsuit proceeds: “Federal agencies that act lawlessly must be held accountable. The FDA illegally approved dangerous chemical ...