Court ruling could put more rules and limits on key abortion pill while legal case plays out.
Earlier this month, Gov. Newsom announced that California has stockpiled 250,560 abortion pills and negotiated a contract for up to 2 million more. But those aren’t the same pills involved in the court decision. Medication abortion typically involves use of mifepristone followed by a second drug, misoprostol, which is used to prevent ulcers but also can cause contractions of the womb.
NARAL Pro-Choice California Director Shannon Olivieri Hovis said that the two-drug combination provides the “most pleasant patient experience” and that “providers want to ensure this is as easy and painless as possible for someone going through medication abortion.”The state’s current stockpile of 250,000 pills would provide for an estimated 12,000 abortions using only misoprostol.
But the governor and lawmakers provided no details or new bills. Newsom told reporters who asked whether that meant the state would defy a court ruling on abortion pills that the state will abide by federal law, but declined to elaborate.The court case only involves a drug used in medication abortion. Surgical abortion would remain available, but demand could increase if women find medication abortion harder to obtain.
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