BREAKING: The FDA agreed to conduct a review of its restrictions on mifepristone, a medication used for early abortion and miscarriage care.
After four years of litigation, this is long overdue, but a major move forward.
Mifepristone is safe, effective, and has been FDA-approved for over 20 years.
Yet it remains subject to medically unnecessary restrictions that obstruct access and deepen health inequities for people of color, people with low incomes, and those in rural communities.
Years of advocacy from medical experts, providers, patients, and advocates got us here.
We raised our voices and made a difference.
Now, we'll be watching.
If the FDA follows the science, these harmful barriers to care will soon be gone for good.
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Today Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott introduced a resolution that will provide a model to other municipalities on the best way to re-examine the meaning of public safety and to invest in alternative public safety mechanisms and structures.
But institutional racism has long kept communities of color from accessing fair housing.
The Fair Housing Act's 2015 "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" provision established community centered processes to locate causes of segregation and establish actionable ways to root them out.
But during Trump's presidency, it came under attack.
Reinstating this provision would require jurisdictions to:
✔️ promote integration
✔️ address disparities in access to community resources
✔️ root out discrimination and systemic racism in housing
Andrew Brown Jr. was shot by police with cameras running. But even as officials defend the shooting – and the DA fights to shield the video – North Carolina’s restrictive state body cam laws are blocking public access to the footage.
These laws must be changed.
Body cameras cannot fulfill their promise of promoting police transparency if state laws shield their videos from release.