Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) said abortion medication is “lifesaving healthcare” during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Monday.
“This is what an abortion looks like. … Medicine is an essential form of healthcare, lifesaving. These five pills are safe,” Bush said as she held up abortion pills. “These five pills are effective. Medication abortion pills like this … [are] no different than another medication that is safe and effective.”
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Bush continued to explain that the pills are 97.7% effective in terminating a pregnancy.
The congresswoman led a discussion on abortion access with Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
Following the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Bush and other Democrats have expressed concern about anti-abortion legislation and legal challenges affecting the use of the abortion pill mifepristone in combination with misoprostol. FDA had finalized a rule to allow pharmacies to fill medication abortion prescriptions in January. Twenty-one states allow medical abortion including Washington, D.C.
She called the “medication abortion” a “lifeline” at Monday’s hearing and gave an economic argument for justifying an abortion in pill form.
“Medication abortion is a lifeline — a lifeline for the person working multiple jobs that cannot afford to take a day off work because wages are too low or they don’t have paid sick leave, a lifeline for the mom of two who cannot afford childcare or cannot find affordable childcare. It is a lifeline for the person who lives hundreds of miles away from the nearest clinic and does not have reliable transportation,” the Missouri congresswoman said.
Bush added that the “abortion medication” was a “lifeline” to “trans folks.”
“It is a lifeline for the trans folks who face transphobia and bigotry because of anti-LGBT+ laws and outrageous bans on gender-affirming care,” she argued at the hearing.
Bush, who had publicly stated she had previously had abortions herself, likened a ban on abortion pills to a ban on Tylenol.
“Banning medication abortion would be like placing a ban on Tylenol [or] a ban on antibiotics. There is no scientific, no valid medical reason to do so. It is only political propaganda,” Bush stated.
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She closed with her opening statements to state that the pills are “essential” and “lifesaving healthcare.”
Last year, Bush admitted in a PBS interview that she felt pressured into having her second abortion at 19 years old when she wasn’t ready and said the doctors ignored her wishes when she said she wasn’t ready.
