{"id":10973,"date":"2025-03-06T21:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senators-press-marty-makary-on-abortion-pills-and-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:59:12","slug":"senators-press-marty-makary-on-abortion-pills-and-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senators-press-marty-makary-on-abortion-pills-and-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Press Marty Makary on Abortion Pills and Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a confirmation hearing for Dr. Marty Makary on Thursday, senators focused heavily on the safety of the abortion pill, with Republican lawmakers urging him to restrict access and Democratic lawmakers demanding that he maintain its current availability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Makary, President Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, signaled that he shared Republicans\u2019 concerns about the current policy, issued during the Biden administration, which expanded access by allowing people to obtain the pills <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/16\/health\/abortion-pills-fda.html\" title=\"\">without an in-person medical appointment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several Democrats pointed to volumes of studies showing that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/04\/01\/health\/abortion-pill-safety.html\" title=\"\">the drugs are safe<\/a>. Dr. Makary told members of the Senate health committee, which held the hearing, that he would review the pill\u2019s safety and the policy at issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said he would \u201ctake a solid, hard look at the data and to meet with the professional career scientists who have reviewed the data at the F.D.A. and to build an expert coalition to review the ongoing data, which is required to be collected.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The hearing also touched on vaccines, with several lawmakers, including the committee chairman, Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, questioning why an advisory committee meeting on next year\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/26\/us\/politics\/fda-flu-vaccine.html\" title=\"\">flu vaccine had been canceled<\/a> in recent weeks and asking whether it would be held later. He and others stressed that the flu panel met annually, and some reminded Dr. Makary that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the F.D.A. as health secretary, had pledged transparency in agency decision-making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, called the cancellation \u201cunprecedented and dangerous\u201d after decades of annual meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Makary repeatedly reminded senators that he was not responsible for scrapping the meeting. He also suggested there was a need for a broader review of the role of vaccine committees that convene experts to advise the F.D.A. He shot back at criticism, saying there is a \u201chuge difference\u201d between \u201crequiring every 12-year-old girl to get an eighth Covid booster\u201d and \u201crubber stamping\u201d the vaccine chosen by a global health panel that had targeted dominant influenza strains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He offered no details about any school or entity that requires children to have annual Covid boosters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also was questioned about the measles vaccine in light of the current outbreak in Texas, where one child has died and 22 people were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cVaccines save lives,\u201d Dr. Makary said. \u201cI do believe that any child who dies of a vaccine-preventable illness is a tragedy in the modern era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he did not take the bait lobbed by Senator John Hickenlooper, Democrat of Colorado, who criticized Mr. Kennedy\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/04\/health\/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html\" title=\"\">endorsement of<\/a> vitamin A and cod liver oil as remedies for measles. Dr. Makary responded by saying that supplements can improve conditions like malnutrition, which is associated with poor outcomes in measles outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lawmakers also warned about staff cuts and hiring freezes the Trump administration has ordered and how they could affect workers who inspect the safety of the food supply, and urged Dr. Makary to review the layoffs among those staff members whose salaries are backed by industry fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They also touched on work related to chemicals like dyes in the food supply, an area Dr. Makary agreed to study, invoking European products with fewer additives as an area for review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among other issues raised during the hearing, the vexing problem of illegal vape products from China with unknown ingredients was stressed by Senator Ashley Moody, Republican of Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The vapes tend to have high levels of nicotine, advertise thousands of puffs and come in flavors like strawberry lemonade that are appealing to adolescents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Moody said it was concerning that the products were banned within China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhoever comes in as the head of F.D.A., this is one of your problems you have to address immediately,\u201d said Ms. Moody, who was previously Florida\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Blocking the flow of the unauthorized vapes has been a priority for major tobacco companies that have followed F.D.A. rules and marketed vapes in tobacco or menthol flavors in the United States. It\u2019s a priority public health groups also share. Dr. Makary said he would address the problem with the F.D.A.\u2019s law enforcement division and the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Throughout the hearing, several senators returned to the abortion pill and the F.D.A.\u2019s oversight of policy changes during the lengthy history of medication abortion over more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mifepristone \u2014 part of the standard two-drug medication regimen now used in nearly two-thirds of abortions \u2014 has become a focal point of anti-abortion efforts since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/21\/health\/abortion-pill-mifepristone-lawsuit.html\" title=\"\">lawsuit filed against the F.D.A.<\/a> and other efforts, abortion opponents have demanded that the agency either withdraw approval for mifepristone or roll back regulations to prevent abortion pills from being prescribed by telemedicine and mailed to patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Biden administration waived the in-person dispensing requirement in 2021. Senator Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire, said that she was concerned that Dr. Makary would \u201cunilaterally overrule the data that currently exists for political purposes and for political reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Makary repeated that he had no preconceived notions and would examine the data. \u201cI wish you were hedging a little bit less today,\u201d Ms. Hassan shot back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mifepristone, which blocks progesterone, a hormone necessary for pregnancy to develop, has long been regulated by the F.D.A. under an especially strict program that applies to only a small number of drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years after its approval in 2000, mifepristone could be prescribed only by a doctor and patients were required to attend three in-person doctor visits to obtain and take the medication. In 2016 and 2021, based on updated scientific evidence, the agency made several changes, including that nurse practitioners and some other health care providers could prescribe mifepristone and that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/16\/health\/abortion-pills-fda.html\" title=\"\">patients did not have to pick up the medication in person<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, argued that the policy change to drop the requirement for in-person appointments was made in anticipation of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Reproductive health experts and organizations, however, had long argued that the requirement was unnecessary for safety and noted that the F.D.A. had already allowed women to take the medication at home without being supervised by a doctor. The Covid pandemic increased the importance of allowing people to obtain the pill by mail because many patients were not able to visit clinics or abortion providers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pressed further by Mr. Hawley, Dr. Makary signaled that he shared the concerns of some abortion opponents and said that he knew doctors who preferred to give the drug in their office: \u201cI think their concern there is that if this drug is in the wrong hands, it could be used for coercion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Cassidy closed the hearing with a direct request: to change the policy back to what it was in the first Trump administration and require an in-person visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The F.D.A. has a staff of about 18,000 and a budget of about $7.2 billion. The agency has vast regulatory authority over products that include prescription and over-the-counter drugs, medical devices, tobacco and about 80 percent of the food supply. It also regulates artificial intelligence software used to scan medical images, an area where the agency has been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/30\/health\/doctors-ai-technology-health-care.html\" title=\"\">dismissed as too permissive<\/a> in its approvals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If confirmed, Dr. Makary would first encounter tensions among staff members, who have been whipsawed by the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive measures to reshape the federal bureaucracy in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The staff endured an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/health\/fda-trump-layoffs-device-and-food-safety.html\" title=\"\">initial round of about 700 layoffs<\/a>, decimating some product-review teams that ensure the safety of medical devices such as surgical robots and systems that deliver insulin to people with diabetes. Those firings were followed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/24\/science\/fda-safety-workers-reinstated.html\" title=\"\">by some job reinstatements<\/a>, though many of those in the tobacco division who review the safety of new products and lost their positions, were not called back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asked about the layoffs, Dr. Makary said he supported efforts to increase efficiency and that he would review recent personnel decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Pam Belluck<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     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