laboratories, yesterday. they paused the court ruling that would have restricted access to the nationwide abortion pill, mifepristone. for, now at least until next week access to mifepristone ha been preserved the matter is far from resolved and the future of abortion pills remains uncertain. the order merely maintains the status quo for a few more days to allow the justices time t consider the issue the white house, on the othe hand, is doubling down o defending reproductive rights. on tuesday, vice president kamala harris, will be in reno nevada, to discuss the importance of keeping abortion legal. mifepristone is one of the two drugs often used to induce a abortion a method that is safe, effective and popular. medication abortion now counts for more than half of al abortions performed in the united states. meanwhile, a near tota abortion ban in florida will have dire consequences for those living in the south. late thursday night, the governor s office announce that ron de
who take it. those claims can be incorrectl sorted, meaning that we ca find truth through facts when we sort through the facts and the truth, the claims ar extraordinary and false. the fda has been 54 months o review with mifepristone it came into the market in 2000 the other average drugs that came into the marketplace in the year two thousands had bee under review for about 1 months these had far more review an had already been in th marketplace in europe. they also claim that the dru is unsafe. so people will take it and may risk health, may risk death. we also know that that claim i also false it is one of the safest drug altogether in the u.s. marketplace. not just with regard t reproductive medicines, bu with this particular drug that morbidity factors, the ris factors to health are lowe than taking tylenol, lower tha penicillin, lower than viagra. so the two leading claims were
will ban abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. way before many women even kno that they are pregnant the law won t take effect unti florida supreme court resolves a challenge to the state current 15-week abortion ban which was signed last year florida is one of the last places where people can access reproductive care in the south a region that has quickl become an abortion desert. if or when florida s six-wee ban goes into effect, abortion will be entirely banne throughout the southern united states joining me now, michelle goodwin, a professor a university of irvine law school and director of the school center for biotechnology and global health policy she s an award winning autho of the book, policing the womb invisible women and th criminalization of motherhood. michelle, thank you so much fo joining me today i have so many questions but i really want to talk first, wha does it mean that there was stag by the supreme cour justice alito? this means that for peopl
poverty that you see there sure, the reality is, peopl are going to be criminalized and abortions, for the mos part, are illegal or will be illegal. it has taken away a person s individual decisions on ho they want to handle their ow health care. these decisions placed government judges, elected officials, in the middle o such important personal medica decisions. it s taking away reproductiv freedoms, once again, it is on step towards radical right-win in this country trying t establish a national abortio ban. this is fundamentall undemocratic and it is wrong and it is disproportionately impacting black and brow people, low income people, people who live below th poverty line in red states and it is very dangerous wha is taking place. this is a crisis, it is public health crisis
out of texas and, in fact, wha is important - being on the marketplace and more accessible. michelle, before i leav you. you really need to underscor two things that you said one, this is been on the marke for over 23 years. it went from rigorous fd approval, but mourn fort lee it was also available on the market only in europe. almost a decade before this is not saying no. thank you so much, michell goodwin, for joining me. i m sure we will have you back thank you joining me now, the democratic congresswoman barbara lee of california. she served as a co-chair of th pro-choice caucus in the house we should note, th congresswoman is a candidate for u.s. senate in 2024. congresswoman, i want to recognize that it is black maternal health week with you. something you tweeted yesterday, quote, did you know black wome in the u.s. are three time more likely to die fro preventable pregnanc complications than white women this is systemic racism so the plain and simple