For Immediate Release: May 15, 2026
Contact: napawf@berlinrosen.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to preserve telehealth access to mifepristone provides important, though temporary, relief for the millions of people who rely on medication abortion. But this ruling does not change the broader reality: a coordinated national agenda remains underway to restrict reproductive freedom and interfere in deeply personal health care decisions. Lower courts across the country are still considering efforts to reinstate medically unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion, including in-person dispensing requirements and limits on telehealth access and mail delivery.

Access to essential health care should never depend on whether courts or politicians decide our rights are worthy of protection. Mifepristone has been safely and effectively used for more than two decades, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has repeatedly affirmed its safety through rigorous scientific and medical review.

For many AANHPI communities, reproductive health care is already shaped by significant structural barriers, including language access barriers, rising health care costs, immigration-related fear, lack of insurance coverage, and cultural stigma. Restrictions on telehealth and medication abortion would only deepen these inequities, particularly for people living in states with abortion bans, rural communities, and immigrant families already navigating fear and instability. Legal protections alone are insufficient if people cannot safely and meaningfully access care in practice.

NAPAWF will continue fighting not only to preserve access to medication abortion, but to ensure reproductive health care is affordable, culturally and linguistically accessible, and free from fear, punishment, or political interference.

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The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) is the only multi-issue, community organizing and policy advocacy organization for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and girls in the U.S. NAPAWF’s mission is to build collective power so that all AAPI women and girls can have full agency over our lives, our families, and our communities.