Inaction On Abortion Pill Puts Women At Risk Of Harm, Abuse

It’s no secret that abortionists are suspected of enabling predators, ignoring child abuse, and covering up child trafficking for profit. The threat of death and danger for women and their babies, however, only intensified when the Biden administration welcomed mail-order mifepristone.

Pill-induced abortion, the most prevalent means for ending pregnancy in the U.S., is already laden with side effects such as hemorrhage, “fast, weak pulse,” “trouble breathing,” diarrhea, dizziness, headache, vomiting, “pain” across the back, arms, neck, and abdomen. In some cases, one study found 11 percent of the time, abortion pills have led to hospitalization due to hemorrhaging, sepsis, or infection that can result in follow-up surgeries.

Pair that with the fact that a majority of abortions, 70 percent, are believed to be unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent with the mother’s values and desires, and the Planned Parenthood-fueled popularity of mifepristone use becomes even more alarming.

Yet, the Trump administration has not reinstated the safeguards rolled back by the Biden administration, such as requiring an in-person doctor visit to obtain a mifepristone prescription.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Marty Makary have repeatedly pledged to examine and review the safety of the popular abortion drug combination. Mere weeks after launching its official review of mifepristone, however, the FDA greenlit a generic version of the abortion pill for sale.

“The harmful impact of Biden’s FDA removing safeguards on abortion drugs, like in-person doctor visits, is an issue that overwhelmingly unites voters of all stripes,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told The Federalist in a statement. “As a growing body of research indicates, these drugs are far more dangerous than advertised, and new horror stories emerge day after day of women coerced and drugged against their will, landing in the ER and even dying along with their babies, Americans’ concerns are more than valid. Even a strong majority of liberal voters agree in-person doctor visits and screening for coercion and abuse are simply common sense, yet the Biden FDA recklessly tossed them aside to push a pro-abortion agenda.”

A new McLaughlin and Associates poll obtained by The Federalist found that seven in 10 of the 1,600 respondents agree “chemical abortion drugs are used by sexual abusers to cover up rape, exploitation and sex-trafficking” and said doctors should also be required to “screen for and report signs of coercion or abuse” before prescribing mifepristone.

Until that happens, women across the nation are even more susceptible to the injuries and even death that can come after downing mifepristone without medical supervision than they were during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Already, mothers who suffered but survived abortion pill poisonings due to Biden’s radical expansions have filed lawsuits in an attempt to hold alleged abusers accountable. Democrats in pro-abortion states, such as New York Attorney General Letitia James, however, are trying to stop pro-life politicians in Texas and Louisiana from punishing the abortion drug traffickers breaking their states’ laws by challenging them in court.

Preventing abortion pill poisonings and protecting women and their babies starts with at least restoring the rules designed to limit and supervise mifepristone use.

“The Trump administration promised a fresh review of the evidence on the risks of abortion drugs, and we eagerly await their following through. Right now, at minimum, they should heed the emerging science and the will of the people and immediately reinstate in-person doctor visits that existed before Biden’s harmful COVID policy. Twenty-one states whose laws are being undermined and their most vulnerable populations threatened by the flood of out-of-state drugs will thank them,” Dannenfelser concluded.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.