Congress Member Dan Goldman speaks about the Abortion Care Awareness Act on March 18, 2024.
Photo by Dean Moses
As reproductive rights throughout the country remain under attack and subject to court challenges, U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman announced at Planned Parenthood’s Manhattan Health Center on Monday the introduction of the Abortion Care Awareness Act.
The proposal of the bill comes after a judge in Texas ruled to take the abortion pill mifepristone off the market. According to the FDA, mifepristone is a drug that blocks a hormone called progesterone that is needed for a pregnancy to continue.
Goldman, a Democrat from New York’s 10th district, which covers parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, announced the bill a week prior to the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated oral arguments on how patients can access the drug.
“Next week, they will hold the oral arguments on a critical case related to the myth of mifepristone medication abortion, which has been proven to be safer than Tylenol over its 20 years of use, but is under attack by the right-wing Republicans who have very particularly chosen a single judge in Texas who they know will rule in their favor,” Goldman said. “So the Supreme Court will get another opportunity to weigh in.”
Goldman’s bill is mostly informational, designed to increase access to medically accurate information about abortion, specifically medication abortion.
“It will ensure that everyone has access to accurate information about where and how to obtain abortion services across the country, how to avoid anti-abortion centers intended to deceive patients, and how to identify misinformation about abortion care,” Goldman said.
As part of the bill, the Secretary of Health and Human Services would carry out coordinated national public health education, awareness and outreach. The campaign would be designed in consultation with healthcare professionals, nonprofit reproductive rights and justice…
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