Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to carry out a new government study of abortion medication that could lead to further restrictions on the drug that is the main method of ending pregnancies nationwide, ABC reported this week.

The controversial Trump administration official told a group of Republican states that the Food and Drug Administration will probe whether mifepristone should face new guidelines for use in abortions even though it has been declared safe and effective for years.

Mifepristone is used in more than 60% of all abortions carried out in the U.S. and is by far the most common method of pregnancy termination, especially in most Republican states that have effectively outlawed surgical abortion.

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