Alaska joins lawsuit that would take the abortion pill off the market

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Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor’s office wrote in a statement that, by allowing the drug to be available through the mail, the FDA subverted the authority of states that have outlawed abortion.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy follows Deputy Attorney General Treg Taylor into a news conference at the governor’s Anchorage office on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. that would eliminate Americans’ access to a pill used for abortions, even in states where abortion is legal.On Friday, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor joined a coalition of states and anti-abortion groups in a lawsuit that aims to revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill, called mifepristone.

Taylor’s office wrote in a statement that, by allowing the drug to be available through the mail, the FDA subverted the authority of states that have outlawed abortion. “That intentional undermining of State authority by the federal government is what Alaska and the 21 states who joined the lawsuit take issue with,” the office wrote.

Abortion is legal in Alaska. But if successful, the suit will reduce access to abortions here. The pill is used for about

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Fed trumps state. If you want to violate women’s rights go to Russia.

Disgusting overreach by this awful administration- we know why they really joined the lawsuit-

Yeah, Alaska isn't one of those states

So says a man, representing a state, where access to abortions is coded in the state constitution.

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