The purchase amounts to a three-year supply, according to Inslee’s office, as Washington’s elected officials await a Texas judge’s ruling that could ban mifepristone. The drug is one of two that can be taken together for a medication abortion.
In a news conference, where he was joined by Attorney General Bob Ferguson and several Democratic state lawmakers, Inslee described the measure as a way to stop anti-abortion advocates from around the nation from taking away rights in Washington.
“We have to recognize that there are forces abroad in legislatures, in courts across the United States, to try to take this right away from the women of the state of Washington,”
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