Catherine Hanaway speaks to reporters after Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe announced her appointment as the state’s next attorney general, Aug. 19, in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
The case builds on Missouri’s multi-state challenge to what officials allege is the FDA’s "dismantling of critical safety protections" surrounding mifepristone.
Federal law has long banned the mailing of abortion drugs, yet distributors and telehealth networks have built a nationwide system that delivers the pills to women in every state, often without in-person medical screenings or follow-up care.
Missouri, joined by Kansas and Idaho, is asking the court to block the new approval, restore pre-2016 safety standards that required in-person medical evaluations and stop drugmakers and distributors from mailing abortion pills nationwide in violation of federal law.
Mifepristone tablets at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
During a recent press call, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., urged the FDA to "follow the science to put back safety guardrails" and questioned the agency’s partnerships with abortion-pill manufacturers, including Evita Solutions, the company behind the generic drug targeted in Hanaway’s lawsuit.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said he and other Republican senators have demanded answers from the FDA about its decision to approve the new drug but have yet to receive a response.
Evita Solutions did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Leo Briceno contributed to this report.
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