ADF: “There’s No Way for a State to Protect Life” if Doctors Can Mail Illegal Abortion Drugs

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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.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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Company Offers Assisted Suicide in NY for $12K

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Financial websites report a New York company is offering “terminally ill patients ‘a good death’ for just under $12,000.”

Late last year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced an agreement to enact legislation letting healthcare professionals prescribe lethal drugs via so-called “Medical Aid in Dying.” New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act officially took effect on August 5.

That same day, a new company called Quiĕtus began offering assisted suicide in New York. Moneywise and Yahoo Finance write:

“Imagine that instead of taking medication to fend off death from a terminal illness, a person could pay to take a concoction that will end their life in minutes — giving them full control of when and where they die. …

“Quiĕtus was recently profiled by The New York Times. It’s made up of a group of nine doctors, nurses, psychologists and other clinicians. It has no dedicated office because it visits and treats patients in their home.

“Before their scheduled death, patients get two medical evaluations and a mental health screening, as well as a prescription for the drugs needed, including lethal doses of cardiac medication, that will end their life. The $12,000 cost for the patient covers all of this and help for the grieving family after their passing.”

It’s very troubling any time people talk about assisted suicide as if it is a more affordable option for people who are sick or dying.

In parts of the U.S. where physician-assisted suicide is legal, insurance companies have refused to pay for patients’ medical care, but have offered to cover assisted-suicide drugs.

Since 1998, more than one out of twenty assisted-suicide patients in Oregon have expressed concerns about the financial cost of medical treatment, and nearly half have expressed concerns about becoming a “burden” to the people around them.

This is why so many commentators have said that the so-called “right” to die eventually becomes a “duty to die” once assisted suicide is legalized. It puts social and financial pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives prematurely.

Patients in Europe and Canada reportedly have been denied care or actively euthanized as a result of assisted-suicide laws.

Assisted suicide is devastating for families, and it robs patients of compassionate care.

Being pro-life means believing innocent human life is sacred from conception until natural death.

Just like abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are murder, and they violate the sanctity of human life.

That’s why Family Council helped defeat a very bad bill in 2019 that would have let doctors prescribe lethal drugs to patients in Arkansas and two bad end-of-life bills in 2021. These were flawed measures that fundamentally disrespected the right to life.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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