New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday stated he would consider defying the Supreme Court and proceed to supply mifepristone if the court docket guidelines in favor of a ban on the abortion pill.
When requested if the state would prescribe mifepristone after such a ruling, Murphy instructed MSNBC: “To be decided.”
“When I say all the things is on the desk, Katy, I imply that. This motion typically, whether or not its mifepristone, or whether or not it is North Carolina or South Carolina, or Florida at six weeks,” he stated in an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, additionally referring to different abortion restrictions on the state stage.
“This goes to value individuals’s lives. It’s going to value them well being, it is also going to value individuals’s lives, girls particularly sadly. That’s what’s at stake, we’ll do no matter it takes to save lots of lives,” stated Murphy, a Democrat.
Murphy’s remarks come after the U.S. fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments in a case that would power mifepristone off the market nationwide, together with in states the place abortion is authorized.
Mifepristone, utilized in mixture with one other drug, misoprostol, accounts for about half of all abortions domestically.
The intently watched authorized combat is more likely to wind up on the Supreme Court, which already intervened final month to maintain the drug out there because the case makes its means via the court docket system.