The use of chemical abortion drugs is staggering, now accounting for 63% of all abortions. Hundreds of thousands of unborn children die each year as a result.
America's women are suffering the consequences. 1 out of every 10 women who use the chemical abortion drug mifepristone experiences a serious adverse event, such has hemorrhaging, infection, or sepsis. One doctor reported that women are seeking treatment for mifepristone complications every day at her hospital.
America's young minor girls are obtaining these powerful mail-order drugs from out of state without ever having seen a doctor. Even in states requiring parental involvement for an abortion!
Mail-order chemical abortion drugs are being used to coerce or force women to abort their children against their will. Publicly reported cases involve pills crushed into food or drink, swapped pills, or coerced consumption and abuse.
Last week, Bishop Daniel Thomas, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, wrote to FDA Commissioner Makary about mifepristone, saying "we . . . urgently encourage the FDA to proceed as expeditiously as possible with its safety review." Bishop Thomas said that the FDA should at the very least, restore safeguards, "if not revisit the legally dubious approval of the drug altogether." He particularly highlighted the need to restore the requirement for in-person doctor’s office visits before a woman receives mifepristone.
The U.S. Supreme Court is currently deliberating on whether to temporarily block the mail-order distribution of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone, but the FDA can and should act now.