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A looming Texas court decision on abortion pills could impact nationwide access to medication, Vice President Kamala Harris warned Friday, as she described abortion access as a “constitutional right.”

The decision — which could be handed down as early as Friday — could yank mifepristone off the market more than two decades after the pill, also used to treat miscarriage, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

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“This is not just an attack on women’s fundamental freedoms. It is an attack on the very foundation of our public health system,” Harris said during a White House meeting. . She was joined by American Academy of Family Physicians President Tochi Iroku-Malize, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists CEO Maureen Phipps, and other reproductive rights advocates and doctors groups.

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