The DOJ’s latest filing raises hard questions for conservatives on abortion pill policy, according to a writer.
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A pro-life activist is questioning the Department of Justice’s abortion pill policy, saying that the current rules in effect put at risk women’s health, enable abuse and coercion, effectively nullifying all pro-life laws at a state level.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, who serves as president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and has been called “the woman who brought down Roe,” contends that the DOJ late last Friday “asked a judge to dismiss Missouri v. FDA, a case brought by pro-life states over FDA rules that allow abortion drugs to be prescribed online, without doctors ever seeing or speaking to the actual patient.”
“The vast majority of Americans think women should be required to see a doctor before taking abortion drugs. In every poll where it’s been asked, this has been by a wide margin – including large majorities of independents, suburban women, and Gen Z, as well as nearly half of those who call themselves pro-choice,” Dannenfelser wrote for an article published by The Daily Wire. “These requirements were standard for years, until, citing COVID, the Biden administration effectively removed them a few months into his term.”
According to Dannenfelser, the Biden-era policy still rules supreme. Since then, abortion is now regulated by activist groups in the states with the most lenient law, shipping the drugs nationwide, irrespective of the state laws where the patient resides.
“Many of these groups will prescribe to anyone who fills out an online form, without even requiring a video or phone call. Some advertise that they’ll send these drugs “in advance” to women who aren’t even pregnant,” Dannenfelser wrote.
In the states with the strongest pro-life laws, each month of inaction means around 10,000 babies will die, Dannenfelser said. She added that users will keep getting these lethal drugs, while innumerable women and girls will be sent to the emergency room with serious complications.
“Pro-life states are right to sue – the FDA, as the administration has already admitted elsewhere, can end this situation immediately if they want to. The harms are real and serious,” Dannenfelser said. “And failure to act risks not just the midterms, but hundreds of thousands of lives. The fact that Trump’s DOJ is siding with the pro-abortion lobby to get these cases thrown out is a disgrace.”
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