Abortion Drugs Are Not About Women’s Health

Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom recently released a video highlighting how abortion drugs are not about women’s health.

Right now, Alliance Defending Freedom is working in court to protect women and unborn children from mail-order abortion drugs.

In June of 2022 the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. That good decision let several states — including Arkansas — enforce pro-life laws generally prohibiting abortion.

But in January of 2023 the Biden Administration’s FDA permanently removed the in-person dispensing requirement for RU-486 and made abortion drugs available by mail.

In October of last year, ADF attorneys and the State of Louisiana sued the FDA for letting abortionists mail these drugs across state lines.

In February, Family Council joined 43 other pro-life leaders in an amicus brief supporting ADF’s lawsuit against the FDA.

The amicus brief argues that states have the authority to restrict or prohibit abortion, and that the FDA’s abortion drug rules undermine states’ authority to enforce their own pro-life laws.

New evidence shows that abortion drugs are much more dangerous than the FDA previously thought.

A recent study by the experts at the Ethics and Public Policy Center found abortion drugs are at least 22 times more dangerous than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling indicates. Nearly 11% of women experience serious health complications from abortion pills — including sepsis, infection, and life-threatening hemorrhage.

These drugs should not be available at all — much less through the mail. We appreciate ADF’s commitment to defending life in federal court.

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