Senator Murray Responds to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling About Restricting Access to Mifepristone

Statement

"It is absolutely infuriating that we have judges overruling medical experts and patient and doctor experience to impose outdated restrictions on mifepristone that fly in the face of medical science. This has nothing to do with facts or science--it's about ideology and controlling women's bodies, plain and simple. This case has enormous implications for other safe and effective, FDA-approved medications Americans rely on--and while patients should know that current access to mifepristone will, for now, remain the same, it's critical this decision is quickly appealed and that we win this case.

I cannot underscore just how outrageous--and how dangerous--it is that Republicans have fought in court to block access to a drug the FDA approved more than twenty years ago that is safer than Tylenol and absolutely essential to women's access to reproductive health care and well-being.

Anti-choice extremists, including those who brought this lawsuit and their Republican allies in Congress, are trying everything they can think of to rip away access to reproductive health care and ban abortion nationwide. We will keep fighting back with everything we have and at every step of the way to win in court and protect full access to mifepristone."

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