Blue state 'resistance' reportedly stockpiling abortion pills in preparation for another Trump term
Democratic and leftist groups are gaming out how to resist and prepare for former President Trump’s possible return to the White House, including blue state governors stockpiling abortion pills.
The Supreme Court ruledagainsta challenge to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) regulatory approval process of the abortion drug Mifepristone, but some Democratic Party leaders are reportedly preparing for a hypothetical scenario where the Trump administration rescinds the approval or uses the 1873 Comstock Act to criminalize mailing Mifepristone across state lines.
"The Democratic governor of Washington State, Jay Inslee, said he had secured a large enough supply of Mifepristone pills to preserve access for women in his state through a second Trump administration. The supply is locked away at a state warehouse," The New York Times reported in a piece headlined "The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started."
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Inslee is not alone, according to The Times, he is "one of at least five Democratic governors who have established stockpiles of Mifepristone to guard against the possibility of any Trump administration using federal power to stop its interstate distribution. The others are the governors of California, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon."
"We have it physically in the state of Washington, which could stop him and his anti-choice forces from prohibiting its distribution," Inslee told The Times. "It has a life span of five or six years. If there was another Trump administration, it’ll get us through."
Inslee’s aides argued that the FDA agency itself could rescind its approval of the pills, in which case