The U.S. Supreme Court held a hearing Tuesday in an abortion pill case brought outside the courthouse. hundreds of pro-drug protesterswhich declared the right of people to decide what concerns their own bodies.

“We call on the judges to reject this case because it is politically motivated and threatens the reproductive health of pregnant women in the country“, he sentenced EFE Planned Parenthood Senior Director of Strategic Alliances Angela Cobian.

At the hearing, a key citation in conservatives’ war on the abortion pill, judges heard arguments from parties involved in a dispute that dates back to a 2016 Food and Drug Administration decision. ), which relaxed the rules for obtaining mifepristone.

Medical Association Against Abortion The Hippocratic Medicine Alliance has condemned the idea that pills could be prescribed electronically. and be mailed, in addition to being sold in regular pharmacies, and the appellate court ruled in favor.

In this sense, Cobian warned that anti-abortion groupsin addition to attempting to ban the procedure in every state in the country, jeopardizes the credibility of the procedures used by the FDA, which it says are “based on science and evidence.”

Prompted by Planned Parenthood, an organization that offers reproductive health services, and other coalition associations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, people gathered outside the doors of the High Court in Washington carried signs reading “bans outside our bodies.” “Abortion is health care.”

In addition, organizing organizations noted that access to the pill has become the only way to obtain an abortion in some states across the country since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, which protected abortion from abortion. federal level since 1973.

Mifepristone was approved for use in the United States in 2000, and Charlotte Odiase, a 19-year-old student at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, said that even if it were banned, “abortion will not go away.” so “it’s better to have safe ways to do it.”

“We can’t stop fighting because the setback we’re experiencing in reproductive rights is troubling,” added Reagan Wade, a 23-year-old student at the same university.

A fear shared by Debbie Marval, 68, who recognized him at the doors of the Supreme Court. be “terrified” of what might happen to the case and, above all, in the upcoming presidential elections in November.