Protect abortion medication!
Petition to President Biden:
Please take executive actions to protect abortion rights including protecting medication abortion, issuing guidance detailing Americans’ right to travel across state lines for an abortion, strengthening health privacy laws to ensure that provider and patient data cannot be shared with law enforcement, and revoking Trump-era executive orders that restrict abortion rights.
A new Louisiana law has classified abortion medication like mifepristone as a dangerous “controlled substance” — the same drug category as opioids and other potentially addictive medications.1
Louisiana already has a near total abortion ban, and this law, passed by the GOP, will make it harder to get a prescription for mifepristone. The law will make it a crime to have the medication without a prescription, putting people at risk who’ve gotten the medication from out-of-state or ordered it online without a prescription.
One critical way to fight back is for President Biden to take executive action to protect abortion rights — including protections for people trying to obtain abortion medication or travel for abortion care and access to abortion medication. There’s no time to wait with Republicans rolling back rights every opportunity they get.
Sign the petition: Urge President Biden to issue executive actions protecting easy, safe access to abortion care in America — including protecting interstate travel and access to abortion medication.
Republicans in Louisiana are looking for every way they can restrict reproductive freedoms, even though there’s already a near total abortion ban in the state.
President Biden has the power to issue executive orders to protect medication abortion, issue guidance detailing Americans’ right to travel across state lines for an abortion, strengthen health privacy laws to ensure that provider and patient data cannot be shared with law enforcement, and revoke Trump-era executive orders that restrict abortion rights.2
This year, we’ve already seen the Supreme Court uphold a near total abortion ban in Idaho, Arizona’s Supreme Court revive an abortion ban from the 1800s, and Alabama fighting in court to protect its restrictions on traveling for abortion care.
Conservatives are taking drastic measures to ban abortion across the country, criminalize miscarriages, limit birth control access, and much more. There’s no more time to wait, President Biden must take action.
Sign the petition: President Biden must protect abortion rights with a series of executive orders.
Sources:
- ABC News, “Louisiana governor signs bill classifying abortion pills as controlled substances into law,” May 24, 2024.
- The Hill, “Senate Democrats press White House on abortion access,” February 14, 2024.