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My fail is Face the Nation's incredibly odd framing of a question to Senator
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Bill Cassidy this past Sunday. >> CBS has confirmed that there are no ongoing safety studies into the abortion
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drug mythopristone. This was despite the Trump administration saying they were going to conduct one. Um, and
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anti-abortion groups want this review to take place. I saw a letter the FDA commissioner sent to you last week
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claiming they are reviewing the evidence. Do you believe him? And and if not, what are you doing about it?
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>> That is nothing but whitewashed Sunday morning Vaseline over wholesale misogyny. The
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framing of the question, has the FDA conducted investigations? No, they haven't conducted investigations into
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Advil or arythrammyosin either. Why? Because this is an FDA approved drug that the American College of of
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Obstitricians and Gynecologists and other leading medical organizations have stated that mythopristone is an open
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quote incredibly safe medication. But to pretend this is about women's health
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under the opice of trying to create doubt around a very effective means of bodily autonomy which is the definition
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of women's health is just what the [ __ ] are you thinking?