By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The attorneys general of New York, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey asked the Food and Drug Administration to expand access to the abortion pill mifepristone, and remove what they view as outdated and medically unnecessary restrictions.

Thursday’s petition by the Democratic-led states seeks to force the FDA to acknowledge what the states view as “extensive” evidence that mifepristone is safe, notwithstanding the Trump administration’s general opposition to abortion.

It came after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr told Congress last month he ordered FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to review the pill, and unspecified “alarming” new data suggested the government should at least change the label.

Mifepristone is the first

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