AG Tong implores Supreme Court to uphold telehealth access to abortion pill
The order is temporary, but stands for at least a week.
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The Supreme Court is temporarily restoring mail access to an abortion drug.
Its decision on an emergency appeal comes after a lower circuit court stopped telehealth and mail order access to mifepristone.
The order is temporary, but stands for at least a week.
During that time, the justices will review emergency appeals filed by manufacturers of the medication.
Attorney General William Tong and a coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia are imploring the court to keep the order that allows access to the drug.
"Mifepristone is safe, legal and effective and we're fighting on every possible front to keep it that way. These burdensome and arbitrary restrictions— abruptly imposed nationwide with zero medical justification—place politics above patient safety and inject needless chaos into our healthcare system,” said Tong. “We're urging the Supreme Court to protect the rights of women and patients to make decisions free from needless political control," said Attorney General Tong.
On Tuesday, Reproductive Equity Now will join advocates in Hartford to voice their concerns with the ruling, and ask that Connecticut lawmakers use the remaining days left in the state legislative session to pass critical protections to safeguard telehealth abortion access.
