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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to FDA’s Update on its Sham “Review” of Mifepristone

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 7, 2026

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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to FDA’s Update on its Sham “Review” of Mifepristone 

Washington, DC — Tonight, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a court-mandated update on its sham “review” of mifepristone. While access to mifepristone remains unchanged for now, the announcement was yet another example of the FDA attempting to legitimize anti-abortion extremists’ efforts to call the safety of mifepristone into question. The FDA claimed that full results would be shared no later than March 2027.

Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:

“Mifepristone is a safe and effective medication backed by decades of science – this ‘review’ is an unnecessary political stunt. The administration is delaying this report because attacks on medication abortion will backfire with voters, but extremists will try to ban abortion as soon as the election is over.”

Mifepristone has been approved by the FDA for 26 years and has a well-established track record of safety and effectiveness. A full release of the FDA’s so-called “review” has now been kicked until after midterm elections—but reporting last week confirms “the gloves are off” for attacks on abortion access from the administration after November. As soon as the midterms pass, Trump and his allies intend to continue upending the will of Americans and forcing the FDA to put their extreme anti-abortion agenda over decades of scientific evidence.

A key anti-abortion ally of the administration is Heidi Overton, who is Trump’s nominee to serve as FDA commissioner. Overton has called abortion “corrosive” and spread junk science around the safety of medication abortion. During her Senate committee hearing last month, Overton dodged simple questions from Democratic Senators about whether she would affirm decades of science proving that mifepristone is safe and effective. If confirmed to lead the FDA, Overton would oversee this sham review and regulate critical healthcare like medication abortion, emergency contraception, and birth control.

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For over 55 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4.5 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.