Save Mifepristone: People’s Brief
On Friday, April 7, 2023, Texas-based U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk delivered his decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration et al, ruling that mifepristone should be pulled from the market.
On Wednesday, April 12, 2023, a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals partly overruled Kacsmaryk’s decision, stating that the FDA’s approval of mifepristone remains valid while also ruling to reinstate medically unnecessary restrictions to accessing the medication.
This decision could result in a devastating, nationwide ban on mifepristone — even in states where abortion is legally protected — and compromise access to medication abortion across the country.
USOW and our partners across the country are mobilizing behind a united message to our judiciary: reverse this harmful decision, respect science, and uphold the law.
LETTER SIGNATORIES
- VOTEPROCHOICE
- 1000 Women Strong
- Abortion Access Front
- Abortion Freedom Fund
- Abortion On Our Own Terms
- Abuzz Health
- ACLU
- Advocates for Youth
- ALABAMA BLACK WOMEN’S ROUNDTABLE
- All Families Healthcare
- All* Above All Action Fund
- Ally Primary Care
- American Association of People with Disabilities
- American Association of University Women
- Asset Building Strategies
- Bans Off Miami
- Birth In Color RVA
- Black Feminist Future
- Black Girls Vote
- Building Back Together
- Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants
- Care in Action
- Catholics for Choice
- CENTRS Health
- CERCL-FP
- Charlottesville NOW (National Organization for Women)
- Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues
- Coalition of Labor Union Women, AFL-CIO
- Cobalt
- Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
- Columbia NOW (Columbia, SC), National Organization for Women
- Cultivator, Inc.
- DemCast USA
- Eastland Women’s Clinic
- EM Consulting
- End Rape On Campus
- Envision Justice
- Equal Rights Advocates
- ERA Coalition
- Feminist Campus
- Feminist Women’s Health Center
- Feminists in Action Los Angeles
- FL National Organization for Women (FL NOW)
- Florida Access Network
- Forward Midwifery
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- Future Coalition
- Futures Without Violence
- Girls for Gender Equity
- Girls Inc.
- Global Justice Center
- Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights (GRR!)
- Greater Orlando National Organization for Women (GO NOW)
- Guttmacher Institute
- HEART
- Hollywood NOW (National Organization for Women)
- Indivisible Bucks County
- Ipas
- It’s On Us
- Jahajee Sisters
- Jewish Women International
- Justice for Migrant Women
- Legal Momentum, the Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Liberation is Lit
- Mabel Wadsworth Center
- Maitri Wellness, LLC
- me too. International
- Men4Choice Advocacy
- Midwest Access Coalition
- Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity
- MYA Network
- NARAL Pro-Choice America
- National Alliance to End Sexual Violence
- National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
- National Council of Jewish Women
- National Crittenton
- National Domestic Workers Alliance
- National Institute for Reproductive Health
- National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
- National Network to End Domestic Violence
- National Organization for Women West Pinellas
- National Organization of API Ending Sexual Violence
- National Partnership for Women & Families
- National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
- National Women’s Law Center
- National Women’s Political Caucus
- NCADV
- New Voices for Reproductive Justice
- NMAC (National Minority AIDS Council)
- NOISE FOR NOW
- Northeast Vasectomy and Family Planning
- Our Justice
- PA NCJW
- Pasco NOW FL0365
- PERIOD.
- Pills By Post
- Plan C
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Pregnancy Options Wisconsin: Education, Resources, & Support, Inc (POWERS)
- Pro Choice Maryland
- Pro-Choice Connecticut
- Pro-Choice Minnesota
- Pro-Choice North Carolina
- Pro-Choice Ohio
- Pro-Choice Washington
- Progress Florida
- ProgressNow New Mexico
- QueerDoc
- Reproaction
- RHEDI (Reproductive Health Education in Family Medicine)
- Rhode Island Academy of Family Physicians
- Right By You
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- Sexual Violence Prevention Association (SVPA)
- Shattering Glass
- SHERo Mississippi
- Silent No Longer Tennessee
- SisterReach
- SisterReach Illinois
- South Asian SOAR
- South Texans for Reproductive Justice
- Southwestern Women’s Options
- State Innovation Exchange (SiX)
- Steph Black Strategies, LLC
- Supermajority
- Survivors Know
- SutterHealth
- Texas Tubman Travel Project
- The Collaborative
- The National Domestic Violence Hotline
- UltraViolet
- UMass Memorial Health Care
- Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE)
- USOW
- West Alabama Women’s Center
- When We All Vote
- Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Women’s Foundation California
- Yellowhammer Fund
- YWCA Kalamazoo
- YWCA USA
