RFK Jr hints access to key abortion drug could be cut back

Health secretary claims Biden officials twisted the data' despite research showing mifepristone is safe and effective

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has suggested that Biden-era regulations expanding access to abortion pills could be rolled back because the Biden administration had twisted the data" behind the pills.

Kennedy made the remark more than an hour into a tense interrogation by members of the US Senate judiciary committee over his chaotic tenure at the health department, which has been marked by thousands of layoffs and the promotion of leaders with little background in public health and medicine.