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Last week, the Food and Drug Administration launched a study of the safety of mifepristone , a drug used in more than half of all abortions nationwide . A letter signed by FDA Commissioner Martin Makary and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announcing the study cited a report by the Ethics and Public Policy Center , a conservative Christian advocacy group, as one basis for the new government study. The EPPC study wasn’t peer reviewed and received harsh criticism from physicians, but it was central to a broader pressure campaign to get the Trump administration to crack down on abortion. To date, the administration has mostly avoided t

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