The Trump administration is considering restricting access to mifepristone, a medication used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the United States and widely prescribed for miscarriage management.
Over the past nine months, lawyers across the country have fought tirelessly to protect people’s rights to gender-affirming healthcare, reproductive healthcare, and the privacy and security of their highly personal medical data. However, we can only fight using the tools provided to us through the law. Now, a slate of three new laws protecting care is set to go before Governor Hochul – it is critical that they be signed into law.
Staff and community members at Lawyers for Good Government are dismayed at the abuse of our federal government’s legal counsel to strip core, foundational constitutional rights from transgender Americans and call on all attorneys of conscience to stand united against this massive escalation in discriminatory action by the Trump administration.