WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court docket rejected a bid by anti-abortion teams and medical doctors to limit entry to the abortion tablet, handing a victory on Thursday to President Joe Biden’s administration in its efforts to protect broad entry to the drug.
The justices, two years after ending the popularity of a constitutional proper to abortion, dominated 9-0 to overturn a decrease court docket’s resolution to roll again Meals and Drug Administration steps in 2016 and 2021 that eased how the drug, referred to as mifepristone, is prescribed and distributed.
Right here is response to the ruling:
US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
“Assaults on medicine abortion are a part of Republican elected officers’ excessive and harmful agenda to ban abortion nationwide. For the reason that overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republican elected officers have imposed excessive abortion bans in 21 states, a few of which embody zero exceptions for rape or incest … The stakes couldn’t be increased for ladies throughout America.”
SBA PRO-LIFE AMERICA PRESIDENT MARJORIE DANNENFELSER
“The professional-life security web stands able to serve girls dealing with sudden pregnancies, in addition to these harm by abortion, and save infants’ lives … The stakes of elections are increased than ever for unborn youngsters and their moms. Individuals don’t help the Democrats’ agenda and it’s crucial to defeat them this November.”
DEMOCRATIC US SENATOR PATTY MURRAY
“For now, mifepristone stays accessible the place abortion is authorized, however Individuals want to know that the nationwide risk to medicine abortion has not gone away — removed from it. If Donald Trump and his anti-abortion allies return to energy, they may do every little thing they will to tear away entry to mifepristone and ban abortion nationwide — they’re already revealing their plans to do exactly that.”
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM SENIOR COUNSEL ERIN HAWLEY
“The choice, primarily based on a authorized technicality, permits the FDA to proceed its reckless disregard for ladies’s well being at the least for now … We’re very hopeful that the federal courts could have an opportunity to carry the FDA accountable for its illegal actions and eradicating these longstanding safeguards for ladies.”
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INTERIM PRESIDENT HAYDEE MORALES
“This case ought to by no means have made it to the Supreme Court docket within the first place. Anti-abortion operatives introduced this case with one purpose in thoughts – to ban medicine abortion and so they failed. This case was a close to miss for the science and medication group and it received’t be the final assault.”
NATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LUPE RODRIGUEZ
“Whereas we’re relieved that the Supreme Court docket noticed by way of the politics and lies about mifepristone, an extremely protected and efficient FDA-approved medicine utilized in medicine abortion care, this case ought to by no means have made it this far. We all know that these assaults on abortion care will solely proceed.”
(Reporting by Gabriella Borter, Nandita Bose and Ahmed Aboulenein; Enhancing by Scott Malone and Lisa Shumaker)