Senator Murray Statement on 147 Republicans in Congress Asking Supreme Court to Deny Patients Access to Mifepristone, Upend FDA's Authority to Do Its Job

"Today, nearly 150 of my Republican colleagues in Congress filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of a truly dangerous lawsuit that seeks to not only deny patients in every state a safe and effective drug used widely in medication abortion and miscarriage care--but that would also threaten patients' access to all manner of other medications by upending the FDA's ability to simply do its job.

And I just have to say: I am astounded by my Republican colleagues' cruel disregard for women's right to control their own bodies, their eagerness to defy the American people by asking a court to deny patients access to an FDA-approved drug, and their complete indifference to how overruling the FDA's experts with an unprecedented ruling by a sole federal district court would upend the agency's authority to do its job and threaten patients' ability to get so many other critical medications.

Make no mistake: what Republicans in Congress are asking the Supreme Court to do is ignore the science, the law, and decades of evidence demonstrating that mifepristone is safe and effective in order to decimate access to the medication in all 50 states. Anyone who cares about women's reproductive rights, patients' ability to get the medications they need, or the FDA's authority to just do its job should be furious that Congressional Republicans are backing this dangerous lawsuit."

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