FDA Claims There's a 'Therapeutic Benefit' to Killing Unborn Babies With Drugs!

"Pregnancy is not an illness," says the complaint.

"Likewise," it says, "chemical abortion drugs do not provide a 'meaningful therapeutic benefit' to women and girls over existing treatments."

"Defendants lacked the authority to approve mifepristone for chemical abortion under Subpart H in 2000," it says.

The complaint then asks the court to: "Issue a preliminary and permanent injunction ordering Defendants to withdraw mifepristone and misoprostol as FDA-approved chemical abortion drugs and to withdraw Defendants' actions to deregulate these chemical abortion drugs."

In a response to this complaint prepared by lawyers for President Joe Biden's Justice Department and the FDA, the administration does not deny that the FDA used 21 C.F.R. Section 314, Subpart H to justify its approval of these abortion drugs. Instead, it argues that the FDA complied with the terms of the regulation.

"Subpart H is available for new drugs that (1) 'have been studied for their safety and effectiveness in treating serious or life-threatening illnesses,' and (2) 'provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments,'" the administration says in its brief.

"Both prongs were satisfied here," it says.

"On the first prong, Plaintiffs' contention that '(p)regnancy is not an illness' ... ignores FDA's consistent construction of its own regulation," says the administration's brief. "In the final rule, FDA explained that Subpart H was available for serious or life-threatening 'conditions,' whether or not they were understood colloquially to be 'illnesses.' 57 Fed. Reg. 58,942, 58,946 (Dec. 11, 1992); see also App. 565 (confirming that 'the subpart H regulations are intended to apply to serious or life-threatening conditions as well as to illnesses or diseases')."

"As to the second prong of Section 314.500," says the administration's brief, "Plaintiffs' attempt to second-guess FDA's determination that mifepristone offers a 'meaningful therapeutic benefit' ... is unavailing."

But the Biden administration's argument for the alleged "therapeutic benefit" of a chemical abortion focuses entirely on the ramifications for the human being seeking the abortion, not the human being who is aborted.

"Avoidance of surgery," says their brief, "provides therapeutic benefits by minimizing the risk of complications from anesthesia or sedation, including 'a severe allergic reaction, a sudden drop in blood pressure with cardiorespiratory arrest, death, and a longer recovery time' as compared to medication."

The administration completely ignores the fact that not only is there a death associated with the use of these drugs, it is the very purpose of these drugs.

An unborn child is a human being. A drug that is designed to abort the life of that unborn child is a drug designed to kill a human being.

This is what the FDA approved when it approved drugs that induce abortion: the killing of a human being.

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Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. To find out more about him, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.