{"id":2497150,"date":"2025-10-09T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-demands-fda-end-illegal-mail-order-abortion-pills\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:41:26","slug":"louisiana-demands-fda-end-illegal-mail-order-abortion-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-demands-fda-end-illegal-mail-order-abortion-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Demands FDA End \u2018Illegal\u2019 Mail-Order Abortion Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flouisiana-demands-fda-end-illegal-mail-order-abortion-pills%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2497150&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and a Louisiana woman who survived being poisoned wiht the abortion pill mifepristone have sued the U.S. food and Drug Management (FDA) to stop the Biden administration&#8217;s approval of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-would-be-my-third-abortion-pregnant-activist-takes-abortion-pill-on-live-tv\/\" title=\"\u2018This Would Be My Third ...\u2019: Pregnant Activist Takes ... Pill On Live TV\">mail-order abortion pills<\/a>. Louisiana, a strongly pro-life state that prohibits both surgical and chemical abortions, has reclassified abortion drugs as controlled substances and passed laws to protect women from forced chemical abortions and poisoning incidents like that of catherine Herring and her unborn daughter, who survived a coercive poisoning attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit highlights the case of Rosalie Markezich, a Louisiana resident coerced by her boyfriend into taking mifepristone delivered by mail, resulting in the loss of her pregnancy and ongoing physical and emotional trauma. Louisiana officials say they have seen numerous cases of women harmed by mail-order abortion drugs, which are linked to thousands of abortions annually in the state, many of which are coerced or unwanted.<\/p>\n<p>Studies cited in the suit argue that the risks and complications from mifepristone are much higher than the FDA or manufacturers acknowledge. The California doctor who prescribed the drug in Markezich&#8217;s case faces an arrest warrant. The lawsuit condemns the Biden administration&#8217;s expanded mail-order abortion pill policies as illegal and harmful and accuses pro-abortion advocates nationwide of sending these drugs into states where abortion is banned.<\/p>\n<p>Though the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on the case due to issues of legal standing, it left open the possibility for future challenges. Pro-life leaders call for the FDA to halt mail-order abortions promptly and remove abortion pills from the market altogether. Recently, the FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone despite ongoing safety concerns, prompting 51 senators to urge a pause and complete review of abortion drug regulations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and a Pelican State woman who survived abortion pill poisoning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/71544002\/1\/louisiana-v-u-s-food-drug-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued<\/a> the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week in an attempt to end the Biden administration&rsquo;s mail-order permissions for mifepristone. <\/p>\n<p>Louisiana is one of the most pro-life states in the country, with a prohibition on abortion &mdash; both surgical and chemical. In 2024, the state even reclassified the drug regimen responsible for most of the nation&rsquo;s abortions as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/01\/health\/abortion-drugs-louisiana-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">controlled dangerous substances<\/a> and passed a law aimed at protecting women from abortion pill poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/23\/democrats-media-freak-out-over-louisiana-bill-protecting-women-from-abortion-pill-poisoning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new punishments<\/a> for anyone in the Pelican State who knowingly coerces a chemical abortion in a woman without her consent were enacted in honor of Catherine Herring and her then-unborn daughter, Josephine. Their lives were threatened when Catherine&rsquo;s ex-husband and Josephine&rsquo;s father drugged them with mifepristone from Mexico. The mother-daughter duo survived the attempted poisoning thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-life-group-says-google-banned-its-ads-in-dramatic-and-unprecedented-move\/\" title=\"Pro...Life Group Says Google Banned Its Ads In \u2018Dramatic And Unprecedented Move\u2019\">abortion pill reversal treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana&rsquo;s abortion ban, however, allegedly didn&rsquo;t stop Louisiana resident Rosalie Markezich from becoming &ldquo;a victim of FDA&rsquo;s mail-order abortion scheme&rdquo; in October 2023 after her boyfriend reportedly coerced her into taking mifepristone he ordered from an out-of-state doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Markezich reportedly wanted to continue her pregnancy and initially &ldquo;refused the drugs,&rdquo; but later ingested the drug, which essentially starves preborn infants to death by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/drugs-supplements\/mifepristone-oral-route\/side-effects\/drg-20067123?p=1#:~:text=Mifepristone%20is%20used%20in%20a,of%20the%20uterus%20are%20expelled.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">severing the hormones<\/a>&nbsp;they require to grow and flourish, &ldquo;under immense pressure and fearing for her safety.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although she intended to throw them up as soon as she could get away from him, she was unsuccessful, and she lost her baby,&rdquo; the lawsuit continued, noting that Markezich &ldquo;faces prolonged emotional trauma and mourns the loss of her child&rdquo; as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Markezich also reportedly &ldquo;endured physical pain and heavy bleeding from ingesting unwanted abortion drugs&rdquo; and &ldquo;continues to suffer mental-health effects from the trauma she experienced for which she seeks counseling and receives medication.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The filing is careful to note that Markezich is not only the Louisiana woman who has suffered from mail-order mifepristone. State doctors, hospitals, and pregnancy centers have all <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >allegedly reported encountering women experiencing side effects<\/a> from the abortion drug regimen that the state estimates is responsible for &ldquo;thousands of abortions&rdquo; within its borders each year. <\/p>\n<p>Much like Markezich&rsquo;s alleged experience, 70 percent of abortions&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/hidden-epidemic-nearly-70-of-abortions-are-coerced-unwanted-or-inconsistent-with-womens-preferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are believed to be unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent<\/a>&nbsp;with the mother&rsquo;s values and desires. Even those chemical abortions that are induced willingly, however, have the potential to harm women. <\/p>\n<p>One recent analysis&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/28\/study-rate-of-serious-or-life-threatening-complications-after-abortion-pill-is-22-times-higher-than-fda-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a>&nbsp;that the rate of serious complications such as hemorrhage and infection after mifepristone abortion is at least 22 times higher than what the FDA and mifepristone manufacturer Danco Laboratories suggest. Another study <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/28\/study-abortion-lobby-medias-claims-that-mifepristone-is-safer-than-tylenol-are-hogwash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debunked<\/a> the abortion lobby&rsquo;s attempts to paint abortion pills as less harmful than over-the-counter painkillers such as Tylenol.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/arrest-warrant-issued-california-doctor-louisiana-abortion-pill-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California doctor<\/a> who reportedly prescribed the drugs used to end Markezich&rsquo;s unborn baby&rsquo;s life faces an arrest warrant from the state for his alleged role in the reported poisoning. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That conduct directly violates Louisiana&rsquo;s abortion laws and prevents Louisiana from protecting the lives of unborn babies despite the promise of <em>Dobbs<\/em>. That conduct also has directly generated medical emergencies that harm Louisiana women and emergency room visits that harm the State,&rdquo; the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p>The illicit activity, the lawsuit claims, is led by multiple pro-abortionists across the nation. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every year, doctors and activists in states like California and New York mail a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved abortion drug called mifepristone to thousands of Louisiana residents for the express purpose of causing abortions in Louisiana that are blatantly unlawful,&rdquo; the lawsuit states. <\/p>\n<p>The push to mail mifepristone to pro-life states where it was banned intensified after the Supreme Court&rsquo;s <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> ruling. The lawsuit claims this activism was only made possible by the Biden administration, which <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/05\/selling-abortion-pills-bloodies-the-hands-of-walgreens-and-cvs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radically relaxed the Obama administration&rsquo;s <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/chrissmith.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">already questionable abortion pill policies<\/a> to allow&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/17\/biden-administration-endorses-more-baby-killing-by-green-lighting-mail-order-abortion-pills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mail-order<\/a>&nbsp;abortion pills.<\/p>\n<p>Mifepristone by mail is directly linked to countless losses of unborn life and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/02\/media-blackout-on-abortion-pill-study-proves-they-never-cared-about-amber-thurmans-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">steady<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/02\/tim-walz-repeats-lie-blaming-pro-lifers-for-woman-killed-by-abortion-pills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stream<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/11\/man-allegedly-murdered-his-unborn-baby-by-spiking-her-moms-hot-cocoa-with-abortion-drug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stories<\/a>&nbsp;about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/11\/tx-man-arrested-after-allegedly-poisoning-his-girlfriend-murdering-his-child-with-abortion-drug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">women<\/a> like Markezich, who were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/24\/nations-top-ob-gyn-org-could-combat-lies-about-pro-life-laws-but-that-would-hurt-their-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">injured and even died<\/a>&nbsp;after taking the drug.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court previously refused to rule on the merits of the Biden-era expansion after determining <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/17\/what-the-supreme-courts-abortion-pill-ruling-means-for-the-future-of-mifepristone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the pro-life plaintiffs lacked adequate legal standing<\/a>. The majority opinion, penned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/23pdf\/23-235_n7ip.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justice Brett Kavanaugh<\/a>, however, left the door open for the court to evaluate a stronger challenge. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is an extraordinarily serious case, but it is also an extraordinarily easy case,&rdquo; Louisiana&rsquo;s lawsuit concluded, noting that the 5th Circuit &ldquo;has twice recognized the likely illegality of the reasoning&rdquo; behind Biden&rsquo;s mifepristone expansions.<\/p>\n<p>SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser&nbsp;agreed in a statement that &ldquo;there are crucial steps the FDA must take to immediately to protect Americans and restore confidence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ultimately, life-ending drugs do not make America healthy or great and there should be none on the market. At a minimum, we urge the FDA to act now to stop the flood of mail-order drugs and not delay another day,&rdquo; she wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Just last week, 25 years after the FDA&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/26\/supreme-court-hears-challenge-to-fdas-reckless-approval-of-unsafe-mail-order-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bypassed safety concerns<\/a>&nbsp;to approve mifepristone, the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/02\/after-promising-review-of-deadly-abortion-pill-fda-greenlights-a-copycat-version\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">greenlit a generic version<\/a> of the abortion pill manufactured by a company committed to &ldquo;normalizing&rdquo; abortion for all. On Thursday, 51 U.S. Senators <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-10\/2025.10.09%20-%20Letter%20from%20Senator%20Graham%20et%20al%20to%20HHS%20and%20FDA%20re%20Mifepristone.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA to&nbsp;&ldquo;bring an end to previous Democrat administrations&rsquo; abortion drug regulations while a comprehensive review is conducted.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana AG and survivor sue FDA to stop mail-order abortion pills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2497151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[62124,8468,6100,64915],"class_list":["post-2497150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-abortion-pills","tag-fda","tag-louisiana","tag-mail-order-abortion"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497154,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497150\/revisions\/2497154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}