Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Drug Mifepristone
WASHINGTON — Today, the League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. The decision ensures continued access to the medication abortion drug mifepristone:
“Today’s ruling ensures that women and those who may become pregnant have legal access to abortion medication, which is essential to their ability to maintain bodily autonomy.
“Crucially, this decision also means that anti-abortion crusaders cannot direct the healthcare decisions of others through federal courts.
“While access to mifepristone remains unchanged, the right to reproductive healthcare is still severely restricted with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The Court will also decide this month whether states can block emergency reproductive care that is protected by federal law.
"Democracy depends on equal rights for all people, which includes the right to bodily autonomy. The League of Women Voters believes that women and people who may become pregnant deserve the right to privacy, which ensures the freedom to make reproductive choices.”
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WASHINGTON — The League of Women Voters of the United States joined an amicus brief filed in the consolidated Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States cases before the US Supreme Court. The cases concern whether states can block pregnant people from getting emergency abortion care in hospitals, which if adopted, would have devastating implications for pregnant people facing medical emergencies. The amicus brief is led by the National Women’s Law Center and the League is represented by Cohen Milstein.
The Supreme Court case Moyle v. United States could leave women and people who can become pregnant at risk of permanent bodily harm, creating a patchwork in which some states provide reproductive freedom and equal citizenship for people who can become pregnant while others don’t.
Abortion will not and should not be left to the whim of state legislatures, particularly when people’s health and lives are at risk.
LWVUS board president and Planned Parenthood North Central States medical director, Dr. Deborah Ann Turner, made the following remarks in response to the Supreme Court of the US's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion.
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