In case you missed it, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other governors of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance issued a statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in Food and Drug Administration, et al., v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the most significant abortion rights case since this same Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Inslee has been a leader on the fight to protect reproductive freedoms in the wake of the SCOTUS decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Inslee was the first governor to stockpile the abortion drug mifepristone ahead of the lower federal court ruling out of Texas that is now before the Supreme Court. If those seeking to block access to this long-proven medication succeed, Washington state has a 3-year supply it can still distribute in the state.

"Here we have a very safe product. It reduces the trauma women experience ending a pregnancy," said Inslee on the podcast Pantsuit Politics on Tuesday. "And yet these forces want to drag us back 100 years or so to ignore the clear science."

The governor has also helped pass legislation protecting consumer health data; a shield law protecting patients and providers from out-of-state prosecutions; and the elimination of cost-sharing for abortions to increase equitable access to services.

Inslee appeared on MSNBC this morning to talk about the significance of the mifepristone case as part of an ongoing assault on reproductive freedom being carried out by Republicans.

"We have to be observant, aggressive and protective of this freedom right, or it will be lost," Inslee told Chris Jansing.