Americans United for Life filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of 69 Members of the U.S. Congress in support of ending FDA approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

The brief urged the Fifth Circuit to deny the Department of Justice’s emergency request to block the district court’s suspension of the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) 2000 approval of chemical abortion drugs, which goes into effect this Friday. The district court’s ruling will protect the health and safety of American women and girls from the dangers of the abortion pill mifepristone.