{"id":2620854,"date":"2026-06-29T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-really-scary-gop-study-committee-highlights-spiraling-abortion-drug-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:40:00","slug":"its-really-scary-gop-study-committee-highlights-spiraling-abortion-drug-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-really-scary-gop-study-committee-highlights-spiraling-abortion-drug-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s Really Scary&#8217;: GOP Study Committee Highlights Spiraling Abortion Drug Crisis"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fits-really-scary-gop-study-committee-highlights-spiraling-abortion-drug-crisis%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=2620854&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>The provided content includes a webpage section featuring a &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; button that, when clicked, reveals additional information. The hidden content discusses the recent gathering of a prominent conservative caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, which focused on the crisis surrounding the widespread availability and use of the abortion drug mifepristone. The article highlights concerns about unregulated online distribution of the drug, leading to increased abortions despite state bans, and exposes issues such as health risks, lack of reporting on adverse effects, and potential misuse, including non-consensual administration. Republican lawmakers are calling for stricter regulation, enforcement, and legislative measures to protect women and unborn children, emphasizing the need for oversight, support for pregnancy resource centers, and legal penalties for illegal or covert distribution of abortion drugs. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >piece underscores ongoing political debates related<\/a> to abortion rights, health safety, and legal accountability.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the largest and most influential conservative caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives hosted a roundtable of congressmen to address the ongoing crisis of the proliferation of the abortion drug mifepristone across the country, as dispensing of pills from unregulated websites continues to allow virtually any individual to obtain them without medical oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade four years ago Wednesday, allowing dozens of states to establish laws protecting unborn babies, abortions have nonetheless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/22\/nx-s1-5860868\/despite-state-bans-abortions-have-almost-doubled-in-the-u-s\">almost doubled<\/a> in the U.S. due to the abortion pill, which is being shipped from dozens of domestic and international vendors across state lines in violation of dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-rejects-democrats-attempt-to-gut-state-pro-life-laws\/\" title=\"Senate Rejects Democrats\u2019 Attempt To Gut State Pro-Life Laws\">state pro-life laws<\/a>. All of this is occurring under the nose of the Trump administration, which has so far not taken any action to reinstate safety protocols surrounding mifepristone that were rescinded by the Biden administration, including the requirement that the pills be dispensed in-person.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, a humanitarian crisis has unfolded as dozens of vendors ship out mifepristone to any individual without verifying that they are, in fact, a pregnant woman or if their baby is past the point of the 10-week gestational limit set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This has led to an alarming number of women being \u201cblindsided\u201d by the severe effects of the pill on their bodies and being forced to witness the death of their children in a toilet. It has also led to a growing number of predatory men obtaining the drug and forcing women to take it without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are beginning to sound the alarm. The Republican Study Committee (RSC) convened a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepublicanStudy\/status\/2070215880911339709?s=20\">roundtable<\/a> on Thursday to explore ways to address the crisis. Rep. Sheri Biggs (R-S.C.), a board-certified nurse practitioner and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-considers-lawsuit-against-gender-clinic-for-affirming-9-year-old-autistic-son-as-transgender-lesbian\/\" title=\"Father Considers Lawsuit Against Gender Clinic For Affirming 9-Yea...Old Autistic Son As Transgender Lesbian\">mental health practitioner<\/a>, kicked off the meeting by describing how minors are obtaining the drug without their parent\u2019s knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[M]any of them take the pill alone without guidance, no in-person exam by a physician or health care provider. Their parents don\u2019t even know. And sometimes it has life-changing results. And I think that\u2019s astonishing as a parent,\u201d she emphasized. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve made it far, far too easy. Aside from the point that we\u2019re taking the life, we don\u2019t realize the psychological impact. \u2026 I know the impact that it can have on individuals for a lifetime, [which] can be overwhelming, and we don\u2019t even see that. We don\u2019t even talk about that. And it\u2019s really scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) furthered the discussion by pointing out that adverse health events related to mifepristone, which have been <a href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/news\/largest-ever-study-of-abortion-pill-reveals-shocking-number-of-adverse-events\/\">independently verified<\/a> to occur for at least 11% of women, go virtually unreported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a guy named Willard Cates who ran the abortion surveillance at CDC for five years, made a very powerful statement. He said, \u2018You know what? Nobody will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fda-will-no-longer-require-in-person-doctor-visits-for-abortion-pill\/\" title=\"... Will No Longer Require In... Doctor Visits for ...\">report adverse events<\/a>, not Planned Parenthood, not [any]body else, because it\u2019s like turning yourself into the IRS. They\u2019re just not going to do it. So women will die. Women will be very, very seriously harmed. We\u2019ll never hear about it because it\u2019s all one big fat cover-up. And that continues to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith also noted that 175 congressmen, \u201cincluding our entire leadership, wrote to [HHS] Secretary Kennedy and [FDA Commissioner] Makary, who was then FDA commissioner \u2026 saying, \u2018Please, President Trump and your administration, step up right now to protect women from this horrible drug that is hurting them so egregiously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-Minn.) emphasized that the work of pregnancy resource centers is vital in combatting the scourge of abortion and mifepristone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are talking about is helping mothers and children,\u201d she underscored. \u201cWe\u2019ve been fighting for life. \u2026 We\u2019re trying to give them hope and support because so much of the time they\u2019re forced into these abortions, and the chemical abortions just add to that, with the coercion, with the sex trafficking, with potentially family or a boyfriend pushing them into this. And this just makes that worse because they are able to do it through the mail in private. And what we are trying to do as pro-lifers is really surround the woman with love and support so she has that ability to choose life because so much of the time, so much of our society is pushing them here \u2014 \u2018Abortion is an answer.\u2019 And now it\u2019s even, \u2018You can do it in private, and it\u2019s all great.\u2019 But it really does leave \u2026 a lifetime of scars \u2026 and so what we are trying to do is make sure that they are surrounded by love and that they understand that there\u2019s support, there are options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the legislation that I\u2019ve [sponsored] is with crisis pregnancy centers, because they are local, they are there on the ground helping women through these things,\u201d Fischbach added.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mark Messmer (R-Ind.) went on to note that there are currently no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-attempts-to-stop-arizona-election-audit\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Biden DOJ Attempts To Stop Arizona Election Audit\u00a0\">federal laws prohibiting<\/a> an individual from giving abortion drugs to an expectant mother without her consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most heinous crimes that are committed [with] abortion drugs is knowingly giving them to a woman without her consent and causing her child to abort,\u201d he observed. \u201c\u2026 There\u2019s no specific federal parameters on punishing someone who secretly gives abortion drugs to a woman without her consent. H.R. 6466, the Forced Abortion Prevention and Accountability Act, establishes a 25-year prison term for administering an abortion drug to a woman without her consent. It also has penalties for shipping by mail or otherwise an abortion drug without taking reasonable steps to verify that the person asking for it is a woman that\u2019s pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Messmer cited the recent case of a man in Washington who \u201creceived just a one year and one day sentence for assaulting a woman, raping her, and then administering misoprostol to her without her consent, causing her to lose her child \u2014 a one year sentence for murder. \u2026 If you assault a woman who\u2019s pregnant and kill her child, in most states, that\u2019s considered murder. Well, why isn\u2019t this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. 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