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OCASIO-CORTEZ: "You know, I think one of the things that -- I think one of the things that we need to examine is the grounds of that ruling. But I do not believe that the courts have the authority to have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted. And I do believe that it creates a crisis. Should the Supreme Court do that, it would essentially institute a national abortion ban, because you have an extraordinary amount of states who have implemented surgicals -- surgical bans or bans after very early time periods. And then, if you pair that with a Mifepristone ban, then we will essentially have a ban on abortion with -- there are certain work-arounds. I will admit there would be certain work-arounds. But we would have taken very significant step towards a national abortion ban. Once you ban medication abortion, which represents -- or start banning medication abortion, which represents the overwhelming number of abortions in the United States, then we are in extremely dangerous territory.”