Blumenthal Statement on a Federal Judge Halting FDA Approval of Abortion Medication Mifepristone

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released the following statement in response to a federal judge in Texas blocking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, a safe and common abortion and miscarriage management medication:

“If allowed to go into effect, this ruling is tantamount to a nationwide ban on the most common form of abortion care. This medication has been used safely and effectively for twenty years with FDA approval for both abortion care and miscarriage management, now recklessly overruled by a single activist judge in Texas. This opinion would restrict the freedom of doctors and prescribers who want to provide reproductive care and every American patient who seeks to receive it. Under this ruling, Connecticut providers would no longer be able to treat Connecticut patients according to what has been the standard of care for twenty years. Republicans like to say they believe decisions about abortion should be left up to individual states, but that’s a lie – their goal, partially realized by today’s opinion, is to force the entire country to live by their draconian restrictions on reproductive care.“

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