ALSOBROOKS: “I DON’T WANT ANYONE LECTURING ABOUT THE SAFETY OF WOMEN. THESE PEOPLE DON’T CARE ABOUT HUMANS”

January 14, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) questioned witnesses at the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, "Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs."

Senator Alsobrooks questioned minority witness Dr. Nisha Verma, MD, a double board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist providing care for women in Georgia and Massachusetts.

WATCH SENATOR ALSOBROOKS' FULL QUESTIONING HERE

Senator Alsobrooks said the following during the hearing:

"I would be remiss if I didn't start with saying that I heard my colleague very passionately talk about the fact that this is about the safety of women. I want to make it clear that this Administration and this Secretary couldn't care less about women, men, or children. In fact, they don't care about humans. And I want to be very clear, I could go down and delineate how that is true. But that is not the subject of today's hearing. But for the past year, we have all watched Secretary Kennedy and this Administration peddle conspiracy theories and junk science to dismantle public health structures in this country. So, I don't want anyone lecturing about the safety of women. These people don't care about humans.

"Last week, in fact, we saw the latest example, with Kennedy recklessly eliminating the CDC's recommendation for a number of critical childhood vaccinations, very alarmingly, including the flu shot in the midst of a flu, basically a surge, a super flu. This is the moment that this man decides to eliminate the flu shot for children as a recommendation. Just like with the pediatric vaccine schedule, changing the rules on FDA approved drugs without scientific input, legitimate evidence on safety risk, or transparency, it will cause, we know, unnecessary fear for patients. RFK's same playbook is being used to target mifepristone, a safe and effective medication that has been approved by the FDA for over 25 years."

Regarding a debunked "study" by the Ethics and Public Policy Center that is being held up by Republicans as a reason to limit access to Mifepristone, Senator Alsobrooks said:

"This is clearly not the work of unbiased science, but an organization with a political agenda. One, based on the last publication I mentioned, that promotes that women are, in their view, inferior and should submit to men. And yet their work is being cited by state Attorneys General and Members of this Committee to roll back access to a drug that millions of women have used safely for decades…

"This study from this conservative think-tank is not, in RFK's words, 'gold standard science.' It is self-published, lacks transparency, cannot be replicated, is rife with conflicts of interest, and includes flawed data."

See here for Senator Alsobrooks' full questioning.

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