We asked ourselves what we could do as a state to protect people’s reproductive freedom here in Massachusetts. We were ready with a plan of action when the ruling came down on a Friday evening of a holiday weekend.

"With this stockpiled supply of mifepristone, our providers can continue to offer the gold standard of medication abortion care to thousands of people throughout the state, regardless of what a judge in Texas says," said Reproductive Equity Now President Rebecca Hart Holder. "Today, Massachusetts is sending a clear message that we will fight back against attempts to reach across our borders and restrict access to care."

The doses of mifepristone purchased by UMass Amherst are enough "to ensure sufficient coverage in the state for more than one year," according to a statement from Reproductive Equity Now.

Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Boston-based Reproductive Equity Now, said Kacsymryk’s ruling “has no basis in science, medicine, or justice.”

“Everything is on the table with our response, quite frankly,” Hart Holder said.

“We need to be very clear-eyed about how devastating this decision could be if it is upheld by the highest” court, said Rebecca Hart Holder, president of Reproductive Equity Now, a Massachusetts-based advocacy group.

Nothing changes for at least the next week, because of the Texas seven-day stay, but “it’s hard to predict what will happen on day eight,” said Rebecca Hart Holder, head of Boston-based Reproductive Equity Now.

The Texas ruling “is playing with our lives in a really disgusting and disingenuous way,” said Hart Holder. “People are not going to know what’s legal, what’s not legal, when they can access and where they can go to access care.”

Reproductive Equity Now, a Boston-based nonprofit organization that advocates for abortion access, said in a statement that medication abortion accounts for nearly 50 percent of abortions in Massachusetts and more than 50 percent of abortions nationwide, and has a 99 percent safety rate.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey included critical reproductive health care funds in her FY2023 supplemental budget.

In the face of fascist attempts to control our reproduction and gender expression while also increasing state surveillance that violates our privacy, it’s important to recognize the safe havens in our midst. Here is what some U.S. states are doing to ensure that access to abortion and gender-affirming care is legal and secure within their borders.

The Massachusetts State Senate on Thursday, March 9 passed a $368.7 million supplemental budget for Fiscal Year 2023.

With access to a widely-used abortion medication on the line, Massachusetts is trying to walk and chew gum at the same time – warning local pharmacies that they must continue supplying the medications, while gearing up for a potentially disruptive ruling out of Texas that could throw abortion care systems into chaos.