Abortion Access In Trump's America 2.0

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has long been a pusher of junk science, especially when it comes to research around vaccines and autism. So it should come as no surprise that he appears open to revisiting the decades-old FDA approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, at least in part based on a report from a conservative think tank that was neither peer-reviewed, nor published in a medical journal. What the report in question conveniently contradicts more than 100 peer-reviewed studies that show mifepristone is safe to use and effective. Jessica Valenti, author of book ‘Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lives, And The Truths We Use To Win,’ joins us to talk about the state of reproductive rights in the U.S. with President Donald Trump is back in power. And in headlines: Trump again walked back his threats for steep tariffs on the European Union, Russia unleashed another massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, and Republican Senators throw cold water on the House version of Trump’s spending and tax plan — a.k.a. the Big Beautiful Bill.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, May 27th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is why today, the show that hopes you
0:06.9	enjoyed your holiday weekend and didn't spend any time online, so you don't know about anything
0:11.7	involving the wife of the president of France, because life is just better that way.
0:34.2	Thank you. On today's show, President Donald Trump threatens more tariffs than backtracks again.
0:39.7	And Russia unleashes another massive drone and missile strike on Ukraine. But let's start with reproductive rights in America and the creative ways the Republican Party has sought to undermine
0:43.9	them. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the Food and Drug
0:48.6	Administration earlier this month to review its decades-old approval of Miffipristoneristone, a drug that can end early-stage pregnancies.
0:56.6	He did so in light of a report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, or EPPC,
1:01.5	a conservative think tank that creatively entitled its report, The Abortion Pill Harms Women.
1:07.0	The report argues that adverse events caused by Mepaprististon are 22 times more likely than the FDA currently recognizes.
1:13.8	Missouri Senator Josh Hawley asked RFK Jr. about the report in a Senate health hearing earlier this month.
1:19.3	Don't you think that this new data shows that the need to do a review is in fact very pressing?
1:23.9	And it's alarming and clearly it indicates that at very least the label should be changed.
1:31.2	I've asked Marty McCarrie, who's the director of FDA, to do a complete review and to report back.
1:38.2	Good.
1:39.1	It's important to mention that the report was neither peer-reviewed nor published in an academic or
1:43.6	scientific journal. It also contradicts over 100 peer-reviewed nor published in an academic or scientific journal.
1:44.9	It also contradicts over 100 peer-reviewed studies that have shown the abortion pill to be safe.
1:49.8	In fact, some research shows that the pill is safer than Tylenol and Viagra.
1:54.1	And let's be real here.
1:55.8	Even if Mipha Pristone made women's hair grow faster and also, I don't know, eliminated carbon from the atmosphere.
2:02.3	I'm guessing that the EPPC, whose stated goal is to, quote,
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