Skip to main content
Statement

SCOTUS Ruling Preserving Access to Mifepristone a Victory for Moms

June 13, 2024
Reproductive Justice

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on today’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling preserving access to medication abortion in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine:

“Today the U.S. Supreme Court rightly and decisively rejected the outrageous attempt by anti-abortion extremists to take away our access to mifepristone, a safe and effective medication that has been used safely in the United States for more than 20 years. While this decision is great news for women, mothers and people who need alternative ways to access abortion, the fact remains that the case should never have made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

“Most people who have abortions are moms, and moms want abortion care to be accessible to all who need it, regardless of where they live, their financial status, or the source of their health coverage. Being able to choose if we have children, and if so, when and how many children to have, which includes access to abortion care, is a fundamental right.

“There is still work to do to secure that right, and moms are motivated, as demonstrated when tens of thousands of MomsRising members joined a people’s amicus brief in this case. Moms know that everyone must be able to access the health care they need. Reproductive rights are human rights. Denying safe medications – or any health care – is never okay.”

# # # #

MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.