Access to safe and regulated medical abortion pills in America is on the chopping block. Just a short time following the collapse of Roe vs Wade following religious zealots pushing their agenda, they’ve now taken aim at medication abortion on a national scale. Early on when Roe fell officials scrambled to enact changes to current policies surrounding pill access so that more women across the U.S could easily get access to them when required.
Conservatives are now trying to make that impossible. In a lawsuit filed in Texas, religious groups; zealots, and their deep pocketed dark enemies are once again targeting innocent women. In the suit, it is claimed that the pill was ‘wrongfully’ rushed through FDA approval way back in the early 2000’s. That’s right folks Republicans and their far-right counterparts are attempting to undo a policy and approval that has been in place since AOL was a thing.
The drug in question is called mifepristone which is used to end a pregnancy early. It according to official statistics accounts for in part nearly half of all abortions in America today.
“Blocking access to this safe and effective medication is a dangerous attack on reproductive freedom and public health,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James, who filed a brief on behalf of 22 Democratic attorney generals. “Decades of medical and clinical research have proven that medication abortion is safe. Despite these facts and its widespread use, we know this is not a debate about science.”
Republicans essentially are arguing that when rules were lifted allowing women to further access the medication abortion pills the law was violated. In their side of the argument, Republicans maintain that they are the ones who (in their states) should have the right to determine who gets what and where. It is the latest example of Republicans attempting to overrule an adult woman’s choice to pursue her reproductive health as she sees fit.
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