There is more pushback against the Biden-era FDA policy that allowed dangerous abortion drug mifepristone to be trafficked across state lines, including into states with pro-life laws.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed a new legal challenge last week to stop the high-risk chemical drugs from flooding the country through mail-order distribution.
"Specifically,” she told the Washington Watch program, “we're asking that the courts halt the sale until such time as there is a requirement that physicians be involved in delivering this care.”
During the Biden administration, the FDA changed its rules for getting the chemical abortion pill from an in-person medical exam to a telehealth visit with mail-in drugs.
The abortion pill is really two steps. The first medication, mifepristone, kills the fetus by blocking the hormone progesterone. That forces the fetus to detach itself from the lining of the uterus. The second medication, misoprostol, creates pregnancy-like contractions that force the uterus to expel the fetus, much like a miscarriage.
The two-step abortion pill is sadly "100 percent effective" against the unborn baby, Hanaway said, but is also affects the pregnant woman, too. One out of 25 women on average, she said, suffer a serious health emergency.
