Oregon Governor Tina Kotek (D) introduced her state has secured a brand new provide of the abortion tablet mifepristone to final practically via the whole lot of the second Trump administration.
Within the announcement, Kotek’s workplace immediately cited the “national results of the general election” as to why the Oregon Well being Authority (OHA) and Oregon Well being & Science College (OHSU) up to date their settlement to supply emergency mifepristone.
Kotek in 2023 ordered the OHA to safe a three-year provide of mifepristone via a partnership with OSHU. That provide is about to run out subsequent 12 months in September. The brand new provide has an expiration of September 2028.
“I consider in reproductive freedom and am dedicated to being a fierce advocate for each particular person’s entry to secure reproductive well being care providers, irrespective of the nationwide panorama,” Kotek stated in a press release.
“Oregon is not immune from federal attacks on our reproductive rights. In our state, patients will continue to access the medication they need and providers will deliver these critical services without fear or harassment.”
Whereas President-elect Trump has acknowledged he’ll depart abortion as a states subject, vowing to not subject a nationwide abortion ban, anxieties over how his second time period will have an effect on entry to reproductive healthcare have risen.
Orders for the morning-after tablet in addition to the abortion tablets mifepristone and misoprostol spiked following the result of the 2024 presidential election. And anti-abortion teams are already planning for tactics to bypass state legal guidelines which have enshrined abortion entry, together with going after the abortion tablet.
