FDA chief counsel who defended abortion pill access under Biden resigns two days into job
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Hilary K. Perkins defended abortion pills in a high-profile case for the Biden Justice Department
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Published March 13, 2025 9:40am EDT

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She previously defended abortion pill access in a  under Biden's DOJ, and HHS officials were reportedly unhappy with the decision to appoint Perkins but were overruled by White House officials, according to a report from Axios this week.

"We’ve been able to recruit higher quality personnel to HHS than in any time in its history," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said  at the announcement of Perkins' assignment. "These are individuals who will return the agency to gold-standard science, evidence-based medicine, and recalibrate its trajectory toward public health rather than industry profiteering."





Signage outside the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, on Aug. 29, 2020. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly/File Photo)



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