A growing number of states led by Democratic governors are stockpiling doses of drugs used in medication abortions, amid fears that a court ruling last week could restrict access in the U.S.
Legal questions swirl around supply of drug mifepristone, interstate travel for abortionsAbortion pill in limbo after competing rulings in U.S.Abortion in the U.S. is facing another legal battle after a Texas judge ruled mifepristone, known as the abortion pill, should be taken off the market and a Washington state judge ruled it should stay available.
California has secured an emergency stockpile of up to two million pills of misoprostol, the other drug used in abortion medication, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced, while Washington's Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee announced last week that the state purchased 30,000 doses of the generic version of mifepristone, enough to last the state's residents three years.
"It harms patients, undermines medical expertise, and takes away freedom. It's an attempt to punish, to shame, to marginalize women. It's unnecessary," Healey said.The Biden administration on Monday appealed the Kacsmaryk decision, saying it would thwart the U.S. Food and Drug administration's scientific judgment and "severely harm women.""I agree with ignoring it at this point… this thing should just be thrown out, quite frankly," South Carolina Rep.
"If red states pass laws saying, 'We can go after people for X, Y and Z,' and blue states say, 'You can't,' we're in uncharted territory," said Mary Ziegler, a legal historian at the University of California, Davis School of Law. "As we did during COVID, we will care for your residents in a manner consistent with their health care needs as determined by trained medical professionals, not politicians," Inslee wrote.Texas took a step toward state-border restrictions in a 2021 law that allows civil lawsuits against a person who "aids or abets the performance or inducement of abortion.
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