| Dear Friend, A federal judge is about to make a ruling that could stop the distribution of the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.(1) Walgreens is already preventing mifepristone from being dispensed in almost half the country, and now the fate of the abortion pill is so murky that the pharmaceutical company that's responsible for distributing the medication has decided to stop releasing it to any pharmacy in more than 30 states until the law is clarified.(2) For more than 20 years, mifepristone has been one of the one of the safest medications on the market, and more than half of all abortions use it. The Biden administration’s FDA has the power to protect the abortion pill and make it available, and we are demanding it happens.
The abortion pill is safer than Tylenol, safer than Viagra. That’s why President Biden signed an executive order allowing the medication to be prescribed by telehealth and giving pharmacies the ability to distribute the pills.(3) That a judge with a history of anti-abortion opinions in Texas would agree to hear a challenge to mifepristone -- which has been approved since 2000 -- is nothing less than outrageous. Mifepristone is used in 53% of all abortions, and people in rural areas and red states especially depend on consistent access to the medication.(4) If the pill is taken off the market, millions of people will not have access to abortion anywhere near them, and the abortion clinics that are available will be completely overwhelmed. The effort to ban mifepristone is an effort to ban abortion, full stop. Courage California has been fighting for reproductive rights for more than a decade, and we are not going to stand by now. We are funding a billboard demanding that Walgreens distribute mifepristone everywhere it’s legal, and we are beginning a wide-scale campaign to convince the FDA to direct the distribution of mifepristone and issue emergency authorization if the judge’s ruling comes down against the abortion pill. Thanks for your critical support. –Irene, along with Angela, Annie, Isidra, Lindsay, Mai, Mai, and Scottie (and the rest of the Courage team)
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