Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators at his nomination hearing to lead the Health and Human Services Department that President Donald Trump told him to “study” the safety of mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill.
GOP Sen. Steve Daines asked Kennedy if he would commit to reviewing the Food and Drug Administration’s actions that lifted restrictions on abortion pills, which included removing in-person dispensing requirements and making them available by mail — actions that Republicans and anti-abortion advocates oppose.
“President Trump has asked me to study the safety of mifepristone. He has not yet taken a stand on how to regulate it. Whatever he does, I will implement those policies and I will work with this committee [to] make those policies make sense,” Kennedy said.