{"id":19076,"date":"2026-02-16T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-rail-at-fda-after-closed-door-briefing-on-abortion-drug-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:20:38","slug":"gop-senators-rail-at-fda-after-closed-door-briefing-on-abortion-drug-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-rail-at-fda-after-closed-door-briefing-on-abortion-drug-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators rail at FDA after closed-door briefing on abortion drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Senate Republicans emerged disappointed from a closed-door briefing Tuesday with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, saying the agency is not taking a safety review of the abortion pill mifepristone seriously and calling for congressional action to curb access to the drug. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said in an interview Makary failed to give a timeline for completion of the review&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/11\/congress\/bitter-pills-00775740\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Senate Republicans emerged disappointed from a closed-door briefing Tuesday with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, saying the agency is not taking a safety review of the abortion pill mifepristone seriously and calling for congressional action to curb access to the drug. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said in an interview Makary failed to give a timeline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}