Some Democratic governors are stockpiling abortion pills in case former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, despite Trump saying abortion should be left to the states.
The Supreme Court last week rejected a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) overturning of safety regulations on mifepristone, the first drug used in a two-drug abortion regimen. “Democratic leaders are reportedly preparing for a what-if scenario in which the Trump administration would revoke the authorization or use the Comstock Act of 1873 to make it a crime to mail mifepristone across state lines,” Fox News reported. report.
of The New York Times Noted Over the weekend, Washington state Governor Jay Inslee (Democrat) announced that he had secured enough mifepristone tablets to ensure that women in the state have access to the medication under a second Trump administration.
“The supplies are being stored in state warehouses.” Times The article was headlined, “Resistance to the new Trump administration has already begun.”
Inslee is not the only Democratic governor to stockpile drugs used to kill unborn children.“She is one of at least five Democratic governors who have secured stockpiles of mifepristone in case the Trump administration uses federal power to block interstate distribution,” including the pro-abortion governors of California, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon.
“We have them physically stored in Washington state so we can stop him and his anti-abortion allies from banning their distribution,” Inslee said. Times“This administration has five or six years to go. If we get another Trump administration, we’ll get through it.”
Inslee’s aides argued that the FDA could technically revoke mifepristone’s approval, but said they would argue the FDA “does not have the authority to restrict use of existing stockpiles when the pills do not cross state lines,” the report said.
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