This brief was filed on behalf of cities, counties, local government leaders, and public entities from across the country. The brief emphasizes that the district court’s order runs counter to decades of clear scientific evidence and would upend legal precedent and the status quo, and that the order will disrupt essential healthcare across the United States, including in amici’s jurisdictions, since mifepristone has legal uses in every state.

This brief was one of many filed in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. For more information on the case, click here.