WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by anti-abortion groups and doctors to restrict access to the abortion pill, handing a victory to President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday in its efforts to maintain broad access to the drug .
The justices, two years after ending recognition of a constitutional right to abortion, ruled 9-0 to reverse a lower court’s decision to reverse steps taken by the Food and Drug Administration in 2016 and 2021 that relaxed the way the drug called mifepristone is prescribed. distributed.
Here is the response to the statement:
US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
“Attacks on medication abortion are part of Republican elected officials’ extreme and dangerous agenda to ban abortion nationwide. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republican elected officials have imposed extreme abortion bans in 21 states, some of which do not include exceptions for rape. or incest…The stakes couldn’t be higher for women across America.”
SBA PRO-LIFE AMERICA PRESIDENT MARJORIE DANNENFELSER
“The pro-life safety net stands ready to serve women facing unexpected pregnancies, as well as women affected by abortion, and to save the lives of babies… The stakes of elections are higher than ever for unborn children and their mothers. Americans don’t do that. support the Democrats’ agenda and it is imperative to defeat them in November.”
DEMOCRATIC US Senator PATTY MURRAY
“For now, mifepristone remains accessible where abortion is legal, but Americans must understand that the nationwide threat to medication abortion has not gone away – far from it. If Donald Trump and his anti-abortion allies return to power, they will do everything they can — including removing access to mifepristone and banning abortion nationwide — they are already revealing their plans to do just that.”
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM SENIOR ADVISOR ERIN HAWLEY
“The decision, based on a legal technicality, allows the FDA to continue its reckless disregard for women’s health, at least for now. We are hopeful that the federal courts will have an opportunity to hold the FDA accountable for its unlawful actions and removal of these long-standing safeguards for women.”
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INTERIM PRESIDENT HAYDEE MORALES
“This case should never have come to the Supreme Court in the first place. Anti-abortion agents brought this case with one goal in mind: to ban medication abortion, and they failed. This case was a near miss for the science and medicine community. and it will not be the last attack.”
NATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LUPE RODRIGUEZ
“While we are relieved that the Supreme Court is seeing through the politics and lies surrounding mifepristone, an incredibly safe and effective FDA-approved drug used in medication abortion care, this case should never have gotten to this point. We know that these attacks on abortion care will only continue.”
(Reporting by Gabriella Borter, Nandita Bose and Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Scott Malone and Lisa Shumaker)
