‘There Are Always Going To Be Ways’: Activists Reportedly Plan To Defy Pro-Life Laws If Roe Is Overturned

“If Roe goes down — we hope it won’t — there are always going to be ways to access abortion,” Plan C co-founder Elisa Wells told Politico. “Plan C included, we’re already working on alternative ways to access the pills.”

Pro-life advocates have long warned that easing access to abortion pills would result in increases in abortions. Even former President George W. Bush warned as a presidential candidate that “making this abortion pill widespread would make abortions more and more common.” (RELATED: Biden Administration Lifts Restrictions On Abortion Pills Despite Risks, Allows Them To Be Delivered By Mail)

“If the abortion lobby’s ultimate dream succeeds, however, brick-and-mortar facilities will become obsolete,” Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser wrote in a 2020 Townhall column condemning funding of abortion through coronavirus stimulus, predicting that internet distribution of abortion pills is the “next frontier” for the abortion industry.

President Joe Biden’s administration announced in April that it was lifting the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) former restrictions on abortion drugs, allowing the pills to be delivered by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Supreme Court had backed former President Donald Trump’s policy in January that the pills could not be dispensed by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic. But acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock said in April that sending the drugs by mail will not increase risks for women and will protect those who want the drugs from COVID-19, according to Politico,

The FDA had approved the use of the abortion drug mifepristone, also called Mifeprex, in 2000 for up to 10 weeks’ gestation. But the FDA explicitly warned that buyers should not purchase Mifeprex over the internet “because they will bypass important safeguards designed to protect their health.” (RELATED: Abortion Advocates Call On FDA To Remove Restrictions On Abortion Drugs Over Coronavirus Crisis, Push Abortion Telemedicine)

The FDA has since updated its website to note that it conducted a “careful scientific review” of both in-person and by-mail dispensing of the drugs, “either by or under the supervision of a certified prescriber, or through a mail-order pharmacy when such dispensing is done under the supervision of a certified prescriber.”

But advocates like March for Life President Jeanne Mancini warn that lifting the drug restrictions will both increase abortions and endanger women, citing FDA data from 2018 showing “thousands of adverse events caused by abortion pills” since 2000, including hundreds of hospitalizations and 24 deaths.

“With this action, the Biden administration has made it clear that it will prioritize abortion over women’s safety,” Mancini said in April. “Allowing unsupervised chemical abortions via telemedicine, without requiring timely access to medical care, will put women in grave danger.”