President Joe Biden celebrated the Supreme Court‘s decision to throw out a challenge of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill, mifepristone, Thursday, doubling down on the “commitment” to protect reproductive rights.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that plaintiffs lacked standing to advance the challenge, leaving mifepristone available to be prescribed online or in person and shipped through the mail. The Biden administration recently expanded access to the drug to make it easier for women to obtain it following the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling and subsequent state abortion bans.
“Today’s decision does not change the fact that the fight for reproductive freedom continues. It does not change the fact that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, and women lost a fundamental freedom. It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states,” Biden wrote in response to Thursday’s ruling.
The president proceeded to reframe Thursday’s ruling into a pitch for his own reelection bid in 2024, claiming that “attacks on medication abortion are part of Republican elected officials’ extreme and dangerous agenda to ban abortion nationwide.”
“Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republican elected officials have imposed extreme abortion bans in 21 states, some of which include zero exceptions for rape or incest. Women are being turned away from emergency rooms, or forced to go to court to plead for care that their doctor recommended or to travel hundreds of miles for care.”
He continued, saying, “Doctors and nurses are being threatened with jail time, including life in prison, for providing the health care they have been trained to provide. And contraception and IVF are under attack.”
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Biden closed by stating that “the stakes could not be higher for women across America.”
“Vice President Harris and I stand with the vast majority of Americans who support a woman’s right to make deeply personal health care decisions,” he added. “We will continue to fight to ensure that women in every state get the health care they need and we will continue to call on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law — that is our commitment.”