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Demonstrators march towards the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court on March 26, 2024, the day of oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. (Jemal Countess / Getty Images for Women’s March)

By Carrie N. Baker | After reports emerged that two women died as a result of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, abortion opponents are callously using these tragic deaths to fuel false claims that abortion pills are dangerous and to push for FDA removal of mifepristone from the market.

Rather than calling on legislators to clarify life-saving exceptions, abortion opponents are doubling down on misinformation they’ve been peddling for years about the safety of abortion pills.

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Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, at an event on Sept. 20, 2024, in Atlanta, where she spoke about abortion and reproductive rights in Georgia. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

By Naomi Cahn, Alan Morrison and Sonia Suter | There is much that a potential Harris administration and Congress could do to offset the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling.

Congress could amend existing federal laws—starting with repealing the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal money from being used to fund abortions, or the Comstock Act, a Victorian law which some judges have interpreted as prohibiting the mailing of abortion pills. Congress could also enact legislation that protects the right to interstate abortion travel. Or Harris could ask Congress to pass a law that would guarantee the same kind of access to mifepristone that the FDA currently allows.

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An abortion rights rally in Milford, Pa., on May 14, 2022. (Preston Ehrler / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)

By Gwendolyn Comai | This summer, 430 first-time voters gathered in Washington, D.C., for an opportunity to experience democracy at work in our nation’s capital and discuss deciding issues in the upcoming election. The event aimed to gauge the opinions of 17- and 18-year-olds with a representative sample from every state in America. 

Participants were particularly open to changing their minds in support of women’s healthcare. Engaging young voters on the issues of reproductive rights is essential in 2024. 

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