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The abortion pill will remain available throughout the United States while a lawsuit over its approval and use works through the appeals process, the U.S. Supreme Court said Friday.
The court issued a stay that ensures access to mifepristone nationwide, reversing lower court rulings about when and how the abortion medication should be available in a case filed by anti-abortion organizations. The case is expected to ultimately be decided by the high court following appeals court deliberations.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives re-introduced a bill intended to restore the right to access abortion care following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, joined 206 of their pro-choice colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives to introduce the Women's Health Protection Act. They released the following statement:
All five of Colorado’s Democratic U.S. representatives are condemning a decision by Mercy Hospital in Durango to stop allowing women to get their tubes tied, issuing a joint statement Thursday urging the Catholic hospital to reconsider.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, released the following statement:
Tuesday's State of the Union address will be the first year lawmakers will be allowed to invite their own guests to since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of a decades-long tradition, lawmakers invite guests to draw attention to issues that are important to them. This year, many are focusing on a host of social justice issues like abortion access, wrongful imprisonment, police and gun reform.
Here are some of the guests who are expected to attend the event.
House Democrats reintroduced a bill Thursday to protect people’s right to travel out of state for an abortion, as many states clamp down on access to the procedure.
Reproductive rights advocates in Colorado were feeling optimistic following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to expand access to the abortion pill mifepristone in early January — but a federal lawsuit filed just 10 days after the decision, which completely challenges the FDA’s approval of the drug in 2000, has made the future of medication abortions uncertain.