[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 31, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                              Mifepristone

  Mr. President, on the mifepristone amicus brief, yesterday I signed 
on to an amicus brief with over 260 of my Democratic colleagues urging 
the Supreme Court to reverse a dangerous circuit court ruling 
restricting access to mifepristone. We just learned that the Supreme 
Court will hear this case on March 26.
  The FDA ruled mifepristone safe over two decades ago, but the hard 
right continues to seek its prohibition. The hard right's attacks on a 
drug that has been deemed safe for two decades shows how unhinged and 
limitless their desire is to eliminate freedom of choice in America. 
And the consequences of the hard right's anti-women agenda has already 
proven destructive to an appalling degree.
  New research shows that there is a significant increase in the number 
of rape-related pregnancies--rape-related pregnancies. This is truly 
horrific. All survivors of sexual violence deserve access to a full 
range of physical and mental healthcare services; but, tragically, 
today they don't have that. This is the new reality for women in a 
post-Roe America.
  These extreme abortion bans have caused chaos and inflicted 
irreparable harm to thousands of women whose stories we will never 
hear. Democrats will not stand by and watch the hard right continue its 
all-out assault on reproductive rights. We will continue fighting to 
protect a woman's right to choose. We will not stop until we prevail.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.