Oklahoma attempts to restrict access to abortion medication

Spreads misinformation to intimidate patients and providers  

From Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes: This week, 14 states, including Oklahoma, sent a letter calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to restrict access to medication abortion across the country. Their request falsely claims mifepristone is a threat to the water supply. 

In reality, mifepristone is a safe and effective way to end pregnancy, and there is no evidence that it threatens environmental safety.   

“This has nothing to do with clean water and everything to do with restricting abortion access,” said Emily Wales, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes. “Mifepristone is safe, effective, and backed by decades of evidence.

“Oklahomans deserve better than politicians manufacturing new excuses to interfere in private medical decisions just because they oppose access to abortion and refuse to respect people's ability to make their own health care decisions.”  

Mifepristone has helped ensure patients can make their own private medical decisions and has expanded access to abortion care — something that remains under dire threat in this country. 

This letter is just the latest attempt by extreme politicians to pursue their ultimate goal of banning abortion in every form. This ploy to reverse-engineer a restriction on medication abortion by weaponizing environmental law is not only wrong — it’s dangerous.  

Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes is an independent, nonpartisan 501(c)4 nonprofit organization that advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. We lobby state lawmakers, mobilize more than 120,000 grassroots supporters, and engage in issue education to protect and expand access to health care and comprehensive sex education in the communities we serve, and to promote Planned Parenthood’s mission. 

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