Experts Blast FDA’s Pharmacy Certification Requirements For Abortion Pill

Legal scholars slammed FDA’s certification requirements for pharmacies to dispense the abortion pill, mifepristone, saying they’re unnecessary and not based in science, and the experts called on FDA to get rid of the prescribing and dispensing restrictions altogether. FDA released the certification requirements Wednesday (Jan. 4), a day after announcing that it had finalized changes to the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy for mifepristone , allowing pharmacies that become certified under the mifepristone REMS to dispense the drug directly to...