Last week, Alliance Defending Freedom Of Counsel Erin Hawley told Morning Wire there is “no way for a state to protect life if a doctor from New York or California can simply mail an illegal [abortion] drug to someone’s doorstep.”
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. As a result, abortion is prohibited in states like Arkansas except to save the life of the mother, and it is against the law to mail abortion drugs into many states.
But under President Biden, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration adopted rules that let abortionists send abortion drugs like mifepristone through the mail.
Pro-abortion lawmakers in other states have also enacted “shield laws” to prevent abortionists from being held accountable when they mail abortion drugs into states like Arkansas.
To make matters worse, the U.S. Department of Justice has opposed federal lawsuits from pro-lifers who want to stop mail-order abortion drugs in their states.
All of this has created a dangerous industry of abortion-by-mail both in Arkansas and across the nation.
But Alliance Defending Freedom is pushing back against the government’s mail-order abortion policy. In the case State of Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, ADF attorneys are representing Rosalie Markezich, a Louisiana woman who was coerced into taking abortion drugs that her then-boyfriend ordered online from a doctor in California.
ADF says, “Markezich did not want an abortion, but far from empowering her to make her own choice and preserve her autonomy, the FDA’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement enabled her boyfriend to coerce her into taking the mail-order drugs—leading to her child’s death.”
In June, Family Council joined other pro-life organizations in an amicus brief arguing that the court should side with Louisiana and ADF by blocking abortion drugs from being delivered by mail.
The amicus brief points out that states have the authority to restrict or prohibit abortion, and the FDA’s abortion rules run afoul of state and federal laws.
Family Council is also encouraging pro-lifers everywhere to ask the federal government to stop letting abortionists deliver abortion drugs through the mail.
Go to abortioncrimebymail.com today to ask leaders in Washington to reverse the FDA’s policy of abortion-by-mail.
Abortion drugs like mifepristone are dangerous. These drugs hurt women, and they kill unborn children.
Research from the Ethics and Public Policy Center shows 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 without an in-person visit with a doctor.
Our federal government needs to recognize how serious this issue is and take immediate steps to protect Americans from these abortion drugs. That is why we hope all pro-lifers will contact their leaders today. Ask them to reverse the FDA’s mail-order abortion policy.
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