A federal court in Texas has ruled that the FDA must be held accountable for its illegal approval of chemical abortion drugs in 2000, stating that the agency ignored science, skipped required tests, and stripped away common-sense safeguards on dangerous drugs. Thousands of Americans, including medical practitioners, 67 members of Congress, and the attorneys general of 23 states, asked a federal court to hold the FDA accountable for its illegal persistence in keeping dangerous chemical abortion drugs on the market. The decision came in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, filed by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys on behalf of four medical associations and four doctors. Chemical abortions have a complication rate four times that of surgical abortions, and around 20% of women who use chemical abortion drugs need medical help afterward. The drugs are also specifically designed to kill a human being. Women who use these drugs have a range of adverse effects, from hemorrhaging to severe infection and inability to have a successful future pregnancy.