Over 40 Republican and Democratic state attorneys general have taken sides in a federal lawsuit filed by anti-abortion groups seeking to reverse the Food and Drug Administration's approval of an abortion drug that is the most commonly used method to terminate a pregnancy.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch led a coalition of 22 Republican attorneys general in filing a brief in support of the lawsuit, arguing that the FDA"undermined the public interest” by allowing"sweeping" access to mifepristone, the first of two abortion-inducing drugs used to terminate a pregnancy through 10 weeks.
Republican attorneys general for Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming signed on in support of efforts to revoke mifepristone's approval. Democratic attorneys general led by James said that limiting access to the abortion medication or pulling it off the market would inundate abortion clinics in states where the procedure is legal because abortion providers would likely be forced to switch to surgical abortions.
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