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Wyoming Bans Abortion Pill, Texas Judge Considers National Ban
- The abortion pill, mifepristone, has been banned in Wyoming days before Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is set to consider ruling in favor of a nationwide ban on the pill.
- The bill was passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature and was signed into law by Republican Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday. It will come into effect on July 1 of this year.
- Wyoming's new bill bans the distribution, sale, and prescription of the pill, and violations of the law will be classed as a misdemeanor. It will be punishable by up to six months in jail or a $9,000 fine.
- Gordon also allowed a second bill, the Life is a Human Right Act, to become law without his signature yesterday. It is a sweeping ban on abortion except in limited circumstances like incest, assault, or when the pregnant person's life or the fetus is in danger.
Do you support or oppose more states banning medication abortion?
Texas Judge Considers Banning Abortion Pill in U.S.
- Judge Matthew Macsmaryk, a Trump appointee, is considering revoking the FDA's approval of mifepristone, a ruling that could have an immediate impact on access to the medication nationwide.
- While medication abortions have been approved for use by the FDA for twenty years, anti-abortion activists claim that the FDA did not sufficiently test the safety of mifepristone before approving its use.
- Around 98% of medical abortions in the U.S. use mifepristone, combined with misoprostol, and there have been 26 deaths associated with the drug since 2000 - a rate of 0.65 deaths per 100,000 medical abortions. For comparison: the mortality rate of habitual aspirin use is around 15.3 deaths per 100,000 aspirin users.
Contact your reps: Should the U.S. ban medication abortion?
Walgreens Refuses To Sell Abortion Pills in 21 States, Sparking Boycott
- Walgreens is facing backlash for its decision not to sell the medication abortion pill mifepristone after lawmakers in twenty states threatened the drugstore giant with legal consequences if they sell or ship the drug to residents.
- Walgreens said it would not sell abortion drugs in Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, and Montana — states where abortion remains legal — but has not provided a reason. CVS and Rite Aid have not made any specific announcements.
- California is boycotting Walgreens, ending its $54 million contract that enabled the pharmacy to supply prescription drugs for the California Department of General Services (DGS). The contract will end on May 1, 2023.
Will you stand up for abortion care and boycott Walgreens?
Alabama AG: People Will Be Prosecuted Over Abortion Pills
- Twenty-two Republican-led states have voiced approval for a nationwide injunction on the use of medication abortions.
- The state attorneys filed a brief asking the U.S. District Court in Amarillo to block the Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of mifepristone.
- Twenty-two Democratic attorneys generals opposed the injunction, arguing that it "would be nothing short of catastrophic." The Republican brief says that the FDA:
"[H]as acted to establish a nationwide regime of on-demand abortion ... in defiance of federal and state laws protecting life, health, and safety."
How do you feel about decreased access to medication abortions? Tell Your Reps:
Alternatives to Plan B for Emergency Contraception
- Plan B is one of the most popular forms of emergency contraception today, but it's not the only one available. Various other morning-after options do the same thing and work in the same way — stopping the process of ovulation in order to prevent pregnancy.
Click here for more information - and ways to access - ella, Take Action, AfterPill, Paragard, and birth control pills.
Mexico Helping Americans Get Abortion Meds – Should More Countries?
- Organizations in Mexico are intensifying efforts to help Americans seeking abortions after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion.
- Volunteer organizations have helped thousands of people across Mexico access abortion medication without visiting an abortion provider. They're now expanding their model to the U.S., training volunteers, distributing pills, and providing networks of support outside of the traditional medical system.
- Verónica Cruz, the founder of Las Libres, one of the earliest abortion support networks in Mexico, said:
“In the U.S., people may fear abortion itself because it is being restricted, but overall I think it’s about the stigma of having abortions at home and beliefs that abortions are only safe if they occur in a clinic…the United States is very late to this advancement.”
Should organizations outside the U.S. help Americans seeking abortions?
Floating Health Clinics & Other Workarounds to Abortion Bans
- A California doctor has proposed building a floating abortion clinic on a ship in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, to allow women in Southern states to access first-trimester surgical abortions, medical abortions, contraception, STI testing, and other care.
- Obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Meg Autry is fundraising for the project, titled PRROWESS: Protecting Reproductive Rights of Women Endangered by State Statutes. The organization says:
“The vessel will be Coast Guard inspected and will have helicopter access for transport and emergencies. Our research indicates that patients are willing to seek care in a floating clinic, and these types of facilities have been used by the military and relief organizations for years.”
How do you feel about proposed workarounds to abortion bans?
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Legislators, my immediate family, my extended family, and my friends ask thst you most strongly oppose efforts to ban abortion pills. Please stop these authoritarian efforts, be they well intended or otherwise.
Best Regards.
I oppose any ban on the abortion pill! Every woman has the right to abortion! Woman's rights are human rights!
Mifepristone is safer than penicillin or viagra based on 23+ years of US, and 30+ years of global safety & surveillance data. It's also safer than carrying a pregnancy to term given the high maternal mortality rates especially in red states where a pregnant woman won't get medical care while pregnant for cancer, immunologic diseases, miscarriages, etc. which increased 40% in 2022. Hospital maternity wards are being close, and doctors leaving these states, as neither wishes to incur the risks of lawsuits or losing licenses creating maternity care deserts.
Plan B pills are safe & probably bought by men for women as often as women buy them. Women have rights to our own bodies & futures. The very idea that one conservative judge could control our body autonomy is repugnant. You have men in congress who are anti-school lunches + anti family leave + anti child care + anti equal pay for women + prolife = WTH? Men have never felt the pain of ovulating, menstruating, childbirth, or being told "It's not mine!" For centuries, women have been raped, pillaged, plundered, enslaved, & mistreated by men, & we are done with it. White men are especially terrified of being on equal footing with women & people of color! ENOUGH! Stand up for us, & we'll remember your humanity, but should you continue to allow conservatives to grind us under their heels, we won't forget at the polls. You know what's right. No woman thoughtlessly uses birth control or has an abortion. Both disrupt the body & break the heart, but we sacrifice our minds & bodies for mankind daily to proliferate the species; however, we decide our fates & futures as every citizen should. STAND UP FOR US, PLEASE!
Anyone who is not a doctor has no business in the way of federally approved and properly prescribed medication. Period. This includes states, pharmacies, everyone. We need to return to trusting the practice of medicine to those trained and licensed to proactice medicine and get everyone else out of the process.
It is always wrong to kill an innocent human being. I have contacted my reps and told them that truth.
Not only the right wing state of Idaho stop delivering babies, but stop supplying women and girls necessary hygiene and this is by a Republican women?
Food for thought about the judge and justice and May conflict of interest?
There are a lot of reasons a women may need to take the proven SAFE abortion medication. And, frankly it's none of the politicians business. Same on husbands, boyfriends and fathers that are not supporting the females in their lives.
There are too many contrary opionions out there among the radical right. They want to ban abortion and force women into delivering more babies; is it a population thing? A religious thing? A control thing? Or all of the above. They want to control who will have the right to vote. they want to control what is learned in schools-truth or what they perceive as truth. And, then they want to close the borders and restrict immigration. Sounds like Hitler Germany. He too was a sad little white man who had many mental disorders. These ideas are totally contrary to what America has been about throughout its history. I'm so very saddened to see us move backwards toward the dark ages.
I am to old to ever worry about ever needing this pill. But I am in favor of individual choices. We should not be ruled by peoples religious beliefs. This should be controlled by medical people not judges or the religious mafia.
As an Idaho native, I firmly believe in the pro-life stance.
Abortions competed with drugs at home offer no assistance to an expectant mother who just ended a life. Whether she knows it at the time or not, she will need some support after going through something like that. Furthermore, for the environmentalists out there, we are allowing these abortion drugs to be introduced into our sewer and waste water treatment facilities. These facilities clean the water and reintroduce it to the environment, but not all chemicals are removed, including medications and abortive drugs will be no exception. These abortive drugs need to be administered only by doctors and only under emergencies.
Please support women's rights to choose.
When is Viagra going to be banned?
I agree with Chris Rock that all abortion should be legal up to age 4. This would ensure that this detriment to women's health and finances could be resolved.
Leave our bodies alone.
decisions about what a woman decides about reproductive health is a matter for the person and her doctor. men should not be involved at all.
This is a safe medication that can be done at home. Do not deny access to this medication. It alows women to decide when they want to have children.
More women will die, and it may be your adult girls. Each year sense the abolish our abortion the pepercent i
Banning drugs only creates another illegal path of access that increases cost and impedes on proper medical care of women. This drug is used after rape, incest, & a perfectly safe treatment in very early stage of fertilization - cell expulsion. Because of its early use, it's safer than a D&C abortion.
For those who oppose abortion, don't use. I believe in abortion until there is a heartbeat, but not if there's a heartbeat and organ development.