SiX in the Press: Diverse Stakeholders Implore Supreme Court to Preserve Abortion Pill Access
The State Innovation Exchange’s Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council (RFLC) filed an amicus brief on behalf of 603 state legislators from 49 states, describing the devastating impact the Fifth Circuit decision would have on people in their states. RFLC members North Carolina state Rep. Julie von Haefen and Minnesota state Sen. Erin Maye Quade led their fellow state lawmakers in submitting the brief.
“The type of pregnancy care someone gets shouldn’t depend on whether they live in a blue state or red state, but that’s exactly the reality we’re living in,” said Quade. “The case before the Supreme Court brings the effort to ban abortion to Minnesota and could override Minnesotans’ legal and constitutional right to make healthy decisions about our own bodies–and hinder our ability to provide care for both Minnesotans and those traveling from restrictive states for abortion care. We simply can’t afford yet another blow to the patchwork of abortion access nationwide.”
“In North Carolina, people already face barriers to access abortion care,” said von Haefen. “The last thing we need in any state is to make it even more difficult to get a safe and effective medication that millions have relied on for decades to safely end a pregnancy. The Supreme Court must step in to say, ‘No more.’”