Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC Responds to Federal Mifepristone Cases in Texas and Washington

For Now, Mifepristone Approval is STILL Protected

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Friday, a federal choose in Texas handed down an unprecedented choice to dam the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone – considered one of two medicines utilized in the commonest abortion routine in the US. The FDA authorised Mifepristone 23 years in the past primarily based on secure and efficient medical outcomes. There isn’t any medical foundation for this declare.

Assertion from Dr. Laura Meyers, President and CEO of Deliberate Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington:

“This choice was tailored by anti-abortion activists and opens Pandora’s field for bogus assaults on well being care primarily based on politics, not science.  This choice units a harmful precedent for nefarious teams to focus on different medicines and FDA rulings with out grounds in medical outcomes.”

The Texas choose additionally stayed the choice to provide the federal authorities seven days to hunt reduction on enchantment, which signifies that for now, approval of mifepristone stays protected within the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.

In a separate ruling on Friday evening, a federal choose in Washington state issued a preliminary injunction in a mifepristone case introduced by 18 Attorneys Normal, together with Brian L. Schwalb (Washington, DC) and Anthony G. Brown (MD).

The Texas ruling might severely undermine entry to abortion within the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Anti-abortion activists aren’t glad with overturning Roe v. Wade or permitting states to ban abortion — they wish to strip sufferers in these jurisdictions and other people nationwide of their rights.

We’re grateful to D.C.  Lawyer Normal Brian Schwalb and Maryland Lawyer Normal Anthony Brown for becoming a member of a case that received its preliminary injunction on Friday. Whereas entry stays protected for now, Deliberate Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington will proceed to do the whole lot doable to supply sufferers with well timed abortion care, together with the strategy that’s finest for his or her circumstances.

Be taught extra about remedy abortion right here. For extra details about choices and a state-by-state information to get care, go to AbortionFinder.org or name 1-800-230-PLAN.

PPMW’s mission is to supply top quality, reasonably priced reproductive well being care; promote education schemes that empower all people to make knowledgeable and accountable reproductive decisions; and to guard the fitting to make these decisions. PPMW is the oldest and largest supplier of household planning providers in Metropolitan Washington, serving DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.

SOURCE Deliberate Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.