People Power United joined over 200 organizations to send an Amici brief to the Supreme Court: Mifepristone Is Safe, Effective, And Widely Used
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People Power United joined over 200 reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations, as well as other organizations with a strong interest in access to reproductive care, to send an Amici brief to the Supreme Court: Mifepristone Is Safe, Effective, And Widely Used. Shout out to Center for Reproductive Rights for leading these efforts.
Below is a summary of the brief sent on behalf of our People Power United membership:
“The FDA approved mifepristone over twenty years ago based on substantial evidence of its safety and efficacy for use in early termination of pregnancy. That evidence, now bolstered by decades of study and practice, has only grown more compelling with time.
The Fifth Circuit’s decision below ignores the overwhelming consensus of the scientific and medical community that medication abortion is one of the safest medication regimens in the United States and around the world. Moreover, the decision imposes harsh limits on access to mifepristone that will have dramatic and far reaching consequences. Since its approval, more than five million people in the United States have used mifepristone for medication abortion and miscarriage management, and the two-drug medication abortion regimen approved by the FDA accounts for most abortions in the United States today. Now, with abortion access already severely restricted nationwide, mifepristone’s availability is critically important.
Restricting access to mifepristone would be catastrophic. The Fifth Circuit’s decision reinstates pre-2016 restrictions on access to mifepristone. In so doing, it reimposes a burdensome in-person dispensing requirement and narrows the types of medical professionals who can become certified prescribers. As a result of these restrictions, even people in states where abortion remains legal and protected could find themselves unable to timely access mifepristone, imperiling access to abortion and jeopardizing the health and autonomy of those denied care. Clinics and providers—such as several amici—could find themselves unable to effectively provide competent and much-needed medical care.
Far from protecting patient health, the Fifth Circuit’s decision will have severe and damaging consequences unsupported by law or science. The decision should be reversed”.
Click here to view the brief.
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