The White House bristled at criticism regarding its response to the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision as a federal judge in Texas is poised to remove a major abortion pill from the market or limit its availability.

"There's been discussion here at the White House about what could happen next in case the judge decides to make this really unprecedented, potentially unprecedented decision," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday.

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Jean-Pierre described restricting access to mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen for a medication abortion, as "devastating," particularly for minority and lower-income women. She also called Republican-led legislation curtailing abortions as "dangerous to the health of women," including proposing a federal national ban.

"That's something that the president's gonna continue to speak out against," she said of President Joe Biden.

Despite the Dobbs decision leaking a month before the ruling was officially handed down, the White House was scrutinized for seeming ill-prepared. Jean-Pierre, however, rejected the criticism.

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"On the day it happened, we heard from the president," she said. "He laid out some executive actions from, from this White House on how to move forward. This is a president, and the vice president, who are very focused on making sure that women are protected across, just across the country."

Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, indicated this week he was amenable to the argument the Food and Drug Administration was wrong in approving mifepristone, a pill that has been used by an estimated 5 million people since 2000.