Peters Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Key Abortion Medication

DETROIT, MI – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mifepristone, a key and widely-used abortion medication, will still be available while the U.S. Department of Justice appeals a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to severely curtail access to the medication. 

“Women across the country are still able to access abortion medication for now – but make no mistake: there is still a serious threat to reproductive rights. It’s clear that Republicans are working relentlessly to make abortion illegal across the country. This is personal for me, and I will keep fighting to protect women’s rights to make these extremely personal, private decisions with their doctors — and without interference from politicians or judges.”

Peters was the first U.S. Senator to publicly share his family’s personal abortion story – which he again discussed during an ELLE Magazine roundtable and told on the Senate floor. Last year, Peters was also featured in a USA Today story about his family’s story.

Peters joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court opposing the lower court rulings and underscoring that the previous ruling has no basis in law, risks denying patients’ access to a safe and effective medication widely used in abortion care and miscarriage management, and jeopardizes patients’ access to a wide array of other medications by threatening FDA’s drug approval process.

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