An influential Christian organization has launched a new campaign urging the Trump administration and Congress to end what it calls a “dangerous mail-order abortion scheme.”
The Minnesota Family Council’s grassroots effort will help concerned Minnesota citizens contact their representatives and ask them to restore a requirement that women complete an in-person doctor’s visit before obtaining chemical abortion drugs.
The in-person dispensing requirement was removed in 2021 by the Food and Drug Administration, allowing abortion pills to be obtained online.
“Mail-order abortion drugs are a women’s health crisis. An in-person visit lets a doctor confirm how far along a pregnancy is and rule out an ectopic pregnancy that could kill a woman who takes these pills,” said Grace Lawrence, acting communications director for the Minnesota Family Council.
“Moreover, in-person visits help ensure women have not been coerced into taking abortion drugs. Sending these pills through the mail turns the whole country into a breeding ground for crime scenes,” she added.
The Family Council highlighted several cases that show “what happens when abortion pills can be ordered online and shipped to any mailbox with no medical gatekeeper.”
For instance, in Ohio, a doctor was accused of using his estranged wife’s information to order mifepristone and misoprostol from an online provider. He allegedly crushed the pills and attempted to force them into his girlfriend’s mouth while holding her down in the middle of the night.
In Texas, a man was charged with murder after he allegedly slipped crushed abortion pills into his girlfriend’s coffee without her knowledge.
The Heritage Foundation has compiled a list of similar cases related to “abortion pill abuse and coercion,” noting that the perpetrators use methods such as “secretly spiking food and drink with the crushed pill, sneakily swapping the pill for a different drug, or coercing the victim into taking the pill with or sometimes without her knowledge.”
“Our call to action is common sense, and Americans across both aisles agree,” said Jeff Evans, president and CEO of the Minnesota Family Council.
“Two out of three voters believe women’s health and safety demands an in-person doctor visit to obtain chemical abortion drugs—something that had been FDA policy from the drug’s approval under the Clinton Administration up until the Biden administration waived the requirement for a doctor’s supervision.”
Anthony Gockowski
Anthony Gockowski is Editor-in-Chief of Alpha News. He previously worked as an editor for The Minnesota Sun and Campus Reform, and wrote for the Daily Caller.
