The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new generic version of abortion pill mifepristone, a move conservatives are blasting as a “complete betrayal” after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , pledged a thorough safety review of the drug.

Evita Solutions, the maker of the low-cost form of the pill that terminates pregnancies through 10 weeks, was notified by the FDA on Tuesday – one day before the government shutdown – that its “abbreviated new drug application” for mifepristone tablets had been approved.

“We have completed the review … and have concluded that adequate information has been presented to demonstrate that the drug meets the requirements for approval,” read the FDA’s letter to Evita Solutions.

Kennedy explained that the FDA was bound by federal

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