Senator Murray Statement Ahead of Oral Arguments in Case Before Supreme Court That Threatens to Restrict Access to Medication Abortion in All 50 States

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“This case has nothing to do with the facts or science—it’s a blatant and meticulously planned attack by anti-choice extremists and Republicans who are doing everything they can to ban abortion nationwide despite the health care crisis brought on by the catastrophic Dobbs decision. This case threatens to not only rip away access to mifepristone in all 50 states and severely restrict access to the most common form of abortion care, but also to upend the science-based and expert-driven FDA approval process that Americans depend on for all manner of lifesaving drugs—everything from cancer treatments to diabetes medication to birth control. The Supreme Court must reject this politically motivated effort to undermine the FDA and impose severe, unnecessary restrictions on a medication women rely on for essential abortion care and miscarriage care.”

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