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Press Release
In New Filing, Trump Administration Admits It’s Rushing to Undermine Medication Abortion Access Nationwide
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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In New Filing, Trump Administration Admits It’s Rushing to Undermine Medication Abortion Access Nationwide
Washington, DC — Yesterday, the Trump administration asked a federal court to pause Louisiana’s lawsuit challenging access to mifepristone until after the FDA completes its politically motivated review, which the administration acknowledged is happening on an expedited timeline.
FDA-approved over 25 years ago, mifepristone is safe, effective, and used in more than 60% of abortion care in the U.S. and as standard care for miscarriage management. Louisiana’s lawsuit seeks to enact sweeping nationwide restrictions by challenging an FDA determination allowing providers to safely prescribe mifepristone via telehealth. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, telehealth has been critical to preserving access to care in the face of devastating state abortion bans. Recent data from the Society of Family Planning shows an increase in telehealth-provided medication abortion care in the first half of 2025.
Noting that the FDA already announced it is conducting a “safety review” of mifepristone, the Trump administration said in yesterday’s filing that Louisiana’s challenge “may prove as unnecessary as it is disruptive”—signaling Trump’s FDA may be poised to impose medically unnecessary and burdensome restrictions after it completes its bogus review, which would devastate abortion access across the country.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Martin Makary are working together to ban abortion nationwide, even in states where it’s legal and constitutionally protected—and they just admitted they’re rushing to do it. Despite decades of scientific evidence proving mifepristone’s safety, and despite Trump’s insistence on ‘leaving abortion to the states,’ this administration is weaponizing every level of government to undermine access to medication abortion everywhere. They know their agenda is wildly unpopular, so they won’t call it what it is, but make no mistake: Their goal is a national abortion ban.”
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For over 55 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.