D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.

Executive Director

Reading other people’s mail is usually and appropriately considered unethical.  There are a few exceptions.  One of those is when the correspondence is publicly available, even if not easily discovered.  A communication sent at the end of January, 2025, to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a case in point.  The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), The Society of Family Planning, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine together submitted a “Citizen Petition” to the FDA about Mifepristone.  Mifepristone is the first of two drugs taken to induce an abortion in a pregnant woman.  The petitioners were urging ...read more