BALTIMORE – Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following statement on almost simultaneous abortion medication decisions on April 7, by U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Washington.
The Texas Court suspended the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, an abortion medication that was approved over twenty years ago and has been used safely and effectively ever since.
However, in a case brought by Maryland and several other states, the Washington Court ruled that access to mifepristone must be preserved pending the outcome of the litigation.
In light of both rulings, what Marylanders need to know is that access to this drug remains intact in our state for the time being.
Statement from Attorney General Anthony G. Brown:
“The decision of the Texas Court is an attack on reproductive freedom. Its impact, which effectively puts on hold the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, will endanger the health of millions. Mifepristone has helped ease access for decades to abortion services critical to the health and safety of individuals across Maryland and the country. If the Texas Court’s ruling were allowed to stand, its harmful impact will fall disproportionately on those already facing barriers to abortion access. It will increase inequities and lead to poor outcomes for people with fewer resources.
“Thankfully, even as the ruling in Texas threatened reproductive freedom, the Court in our case in the Eastern District of Washington preserved access to mifepristone in Maryland and the other states that joined the lawsuit. This battle is not over in either case, but we will not back down in this critical fight to ensure access to reproductive healthcare. As Maryland’s General Assembly has taken historic action to enshrine reproductive freedom in our State’s Constitution, so too will we battle in the courts to preserve access to the medications that make that freedom meaningful.
“Tonight, mifepristone remains available in Maryland. We will continue working to protect this access and every individual’s right to choose.”
Anthony Brown; you can call it whatever you want, but when you stand in front of God, he’s going to charge you as an accessory to murder!
It’s ironic that you’re very anti-gun but ending lives under the name “reproductive freedom” makes it Ok in your eyes? Glad I’m not you…
why aren’t abortion prices on abortion providers websites? Why does the abortion industry think it immune from this, from having to publish their prices? Its not the only industry that doesn’t publish their prices, but it is an industry that doesn’t publish its prices. One less conversation the abortion industry doesn’t have about what it does. If the prices were posted, then the patients would chit chat about the prices & maybe ……. not have an abortion. “