{"id":2536709,"date":"2026-01-14T16:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-8\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:57:16","slug":"dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Senator: Forced Abortions Are Just &#8216;Part Of History&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fdem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-8%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=2536709&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>At a Senate HELP Committee hearing titled &#8220;Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs,&#8221; Republican senators argued that relaxed rules for mail-order mifepristone have increased the risk of coerced or forced abortions and urged the FDA to reinstate pre-Biden safeguards such as in-person visits. Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan pushed back, saying coercion and violence against pregnant women predate mifepristone and arguing that requiring in-person consultations would create barriers for people in states with limited reproductive-health access. The article disputes Hassan&#8217;s framing, asserting that looser abortion-pill rules have enabled traffickers and abusers to force pills on women and pointing to several reported cases of poisoning, coercion, and complications after mail-order pills. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill testified that state efforts to prevent coerced abortions are undermined when pills are trafficked from out of state, and called for stronger federal guardrails. The piece is opinionated, arguing that Democratic policies and the Biden management&#8217;s rollback of dispensing requirements have weakened protections for women and their unborn children.  <\/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 class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/hearings\/protecting-women-exposing-the-dangers-of-chemical-abortion-drugs\">Senate HELP Committee<\/a>&nbsp;       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/14\/dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-so-we-might-as-well-let-abusers-access-mifepristone\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Dem%20Senator:%20Forced%20Abortions%20Are%20Just%20%E2%80%98Part%20Of%20History,%E2%80%99%20So%20We%20Might%20As%20Well%20Let%20Abusers%20Access%20Mifepristone%C2%A0&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/14\/dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-so-we-might-as-well-let-abusers-access-mifepristone\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Dem%20Senator:%20Forced%20Abortions%20Are%20Just%20%E2%80%98Part%20Of%20History,%E2%80%99%20So%20We%20Might%20As%20Well%20Let%20Abusers%20Access%20Mifepristone%C2%A0&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/14\/dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-so-we-might-as-well-let-abusers-access-mifepristone\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/14\/dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-so-we-might-as-well-let-abusers-access-mifepristone\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Dem%20Senator:%20Forced%20Abortions%20Are%20Just%20%E2%80%98Part%20Of%20History,%E2%80%99%20So%20We%20Might%20As%20Well%20Let%20Abusers%20Access%20Mifepristone%C2%A0&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/14\/dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history-so-we-might-as-well-let-abusers-access-mifepristone\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan showed little care for victims of forced abortions on Wednesday when she accused her Republican colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee of &ldquo;gaslighting&rdquo; Americans on the dangers of mail-order mifepristone and claimed violence against pregnant women is a &ldquo;longstanding part of human history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The GOP senators who called the hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/hearings\/protecting-women-exposing-the-dangers-of-chemical-abortion-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">titled Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs<\/a> spent much of their two hours invoking an uptick in coerced pill-induced abortions as one of the many reasons the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should restore the mifepristone safeguards stripped by the Biden administration, such as an in-person doctor visit. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-510209684\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hassan immediately took issue with evidence that mifepristone has put women and their babies at immense risk of harm by claiming that &ldquo;women have been coerced before mifepristone, and they have been coerced since mifepristone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The murder rate, the assault rate on pregnant women by their partners to end a pregnancy has been a longstanding part of human history,&rdquo; Hassan said. &ldquo;So to blame it on mifepristone misses the point. To say that women shouldn&rsquo;t be able to get this medication through the mail misses the point.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hassan&rsquo;s &ldquo;point&rdquo; centered on accusing pro-life states and their lifesaving policies of creating &ldquo;maternal health and reproductive health deserts in this country.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When you say a woman should go consult with a physician, there are women who would have to travel hours in this country, miss work, find a babysitter &mdash; if they have a car to begin with &mdash; in order to do that, because of policies that have banned abortion and have cut Medicaid in particular,&rdquo; Hassan continued.<\/p>\n<p>What she accidentally admitted instead is a fact pro-lifers have recognized for decades: The unlimited abortion-for-all culture that the Democrat party and their abortion activist allies have tried to force on Americans has undoubtedly weakened the safeguards designed to protect women and their babies from harm and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what Hassan said, there are no laws preventing women from getting routine female treatment and pregnancy healthcare &mdash; including via telemedicine. There are, however, plenty of examples of women in states that banned mifepristone who allegedly suffered serious complications or heavy bleeding after ingesting the mail-order abortion pills, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/30\/woman-coerced-into-abortion-asks-fda-to-stop-shielding-abusers-and-their-drug-dealers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sometimes against their wills. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democrats&rsquo; abortion extremism, paired with the Biden administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/28\/lax-abortion-pill-rules-make-already-vulnerable-women-more-susceptible-to-harm-and-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radical rollback<\/a>&nbsp;of abortion pill dispensing requirements have only made&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> <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\">more susceptible<\/a>&nbsp;to the&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\">injuries and even death<\/a>&nbsp;that can come&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\">after<\/a>&nbsp;downing&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\">mifepristone<\/a>&nbsp;without medical supervision.<\/p>\n<p><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\">Recent<\/a> <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\">abortion<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/30\/woman-coerced-into-abortion-asks-fda-to-stop-shielding-abusers-and-their-drug-dealers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pill<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/11\/12\/suspended-ohio-doctor-posed-as-ex-wife-to-get-abortion-drugs-then-allegedly-forced-them-on-girlfriend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poisoning<\/a>&nbsp;reports and lawsuits suggest that abusers and other bad actors use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fda-head-abortion-pill-review-will-be-released-once-completed\/\" title=\"FDA Head: Abortion Pill Review Will Be Released Once Completed\">relaxed mail-order abortion drug provisions<\/a> to force mifepristone on pregnant women. Already, approximately 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.<\/p>\n<p>As hearing witness Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill noted in her testimony, states like hers can only do so much to prevent coerced abortions when Democrats have repeatedly enabled and shielded the illegal trafficking of abortion pills to people in areas where they are banned. Until the mifepristone guardrails that stood before Biden&rsquo;s time in the White House are at least reinstated, Murrill said, &ldquo;Louisiana&rsquo;s efforts to protect mothers and their unborn children and to hold out-of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-forced-abortions-are-just-part-of-history\/\" title=\"Dem Senator: ... Are Just &#039;Part Of History&#039;\">-state abortion pill traffickers accountable<\/a> for the harm they inflict will be all but futile.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Jordan Boyd is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-cruelty-is-the-point-folks\/\" title=\"The Cruelty Is the ..., Folks\">award-winning staff writer<\/a> at The Federalist and producer of &ldquo;The Federalist Radio Hour.&rdquo; Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. 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