Democratic governor warns that efforts to ban mifepristone post-Roe are a ‘multi-decade’ effort

Washington state’s first-in-the-nation stockpile of abortion drugs will serve as insurance against future lawsuits seeking to ban the procedure nationwide or a second presidential term for Republican Donald Trump, the state’s governor, Jay Inslee, said.

Last year, with a federal lawsuit seeking to restrict access to abortion medication nationwide, Inslee, a Democrat, ordered the state’s department of corrections to use its pharmacy license to buy 30,000 doses of the abortion drug mifepristone.