A group of pro-life doctors are calling on the Trump administration to promptly review the safety of the abortion pill. 

“As physicians who uphold the Hippocratic oath to do no harm, we oppose any delay in a much-needed safety review of mifepristone that prioritizes political expediency over patient safety,” five doctors told the Trump administration in a letter Thursday.  

The four-page letter, addressed specially to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin A. Makary and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calls on the administration to immediately take action to safeguard women from the alleged risks of the abortion pill known as mifepristone.  

The process of a chemical abortion begins when a woman takes mifepristone, which blocks the baby in the womb from receiving the hormone progesterone. Without progesterone, the lining of the uterus deteriorates, ultimately resulting in the unborn child’s death.   

After 22 state attorneys general asked the Food and Drug Administration to review the safety of the abortion pill last year,........

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