Pro-life org urges DOJ to end mail-order abortion after latest domestic assault case

By Tate Rosentreter
The Center Square

After another domestic assault case involving the abortion pill, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America called on the Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to end mail-order abortion.

SBA Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement: “Enough is enough. We call on Blanche’s DOJ to settle with Louisiana by agreeing to a court-ordered consent decree that would end Biden’s unlawful mail-order abortion drug policy and restore in-person dispensing immediately while the FDA completes a prompt, rigorous safety review.”

When reached, a DOJ spokesman told The Center Square that “this Department of Justice remains committed to advancing President [Donald] Trump’s pro-life agenda.”

This commitment includes “dismissing criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits against peaceful pro-life advocates targeted by the previous administration” and “using the FACE Act to protect pro-life pregnancy centers,” the spokesman said.

“The Department of Justice requested more time from the court for the FDA to complete its review of mifepristone REMS,” the spokesman said. “As the Supreme Court recognized in a unanimous ruling less than two years ago, it is the role of the FDA – not the federal courts – to evaluate drug safety data and impose appropriate precautions.”

SBA Pro-Life America’s news release explained that “in the latest violent domestic assault using abortion drugs, a Louisiana man has been charged with felony crimes for slipping an abortion drug to a woman without her knowledge.”

SBA President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in her statement: “This horrific abortion drug poisoning caused a mother and child to be rushed to the hospital for an emergency c-section at 23 weeks, with the baby weighing just a pound and fighting for life.”

“Abortion drug poisoning attacks on women and children are always tragic, but they come as no surprise under a mail-order abortion drug regime that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche must end,” Dannenfelser said.

“Federal courts have found the many harms of this Biden-era policy to be predictable and intentional.” Dannenfelser said.

“There is a strong argument that leaving the mail-order policy in place violates federal law, namely the Administrative Procedure Act,” Dannenfelser said.

“It is also politically perilous: 7 in 10 Americans want these deadly drugs out of the mail, and nearly a third of GOP base voters are at risk of sitting out midterms if the GOP abandons pro-life policies,” Dannenfelser said. “Only immediate action can prevent future crimes before they happen.”

Dannenfelser noted that “tragically, 15,000 babies in states with pro-life laws are killed every month as mail-order abortion drugs effectively nullify those laws.”

“These dangerous drugs take a severe toll on women’s physical and mental health and give abusive men an easy tool to poison them against their will, even without their knowledge,” Dannenfelser said. “We’ve seen it over and over since Biden’s FDA removed in-person medical safeguards.”

Dannenfelser said she and SBA “thank God both mother and baby survived this deplorable attack” by abortion pill in Louisiana.

“At this moment, that little baby continues to fight in the hospital,” Dannenfelser said. “Though we do not know the child’s condition, babies born at 23 weeks and even earlier increasingly survive and thrive if given that fighting chance.”

Another Louisiana woman named Rosalie Markezich was harmed by the abortion pill a few years ago. She was coerced to take it by her boyfriend who ordered it from outside their pro-life state without Markezich’s consent, according to Alliance Defending Freedom.

Markezich and the state of Louisiana are currently suing the FDA for its “recklessness” as it relates to the mail-order abortion pill, according to Alliance Defending Freedom.