There is nothing more important to a pregnant mother than making sure her growing baby is healthy. She tries to eat the right foods, avoids caffeine, and drinks plenty of water.

As a mother of four, I know the feeling well.

Newly released text messages from 2021 show our nation’s health officials, including Anthony Fauci, privately discussed theoretical risks around the widely mandated COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant mothers. These documents indicate that those in power knew that after the second dose, there was a heightened risk of mothers miscarrying in their first trimester.

During that same time period, I was pregnant with my daughter and felt tremendous pressure to take the vaccine for the “safety” of my baby. Looking back now, the gaslighting and shaming I received from doctors, news media, and society for declining the injection is surreal. Knowing what we know now, that it was likely to lose a healthy baby because of the shot, I’m grateful for refusing to make my child their experiment.

I feel for the women who took the vaccine, truly believing they were doing what was best for their baby, and lost a child because of what seems like apathy and negligence. Americans should all be outraged at this discovery and should ensure it never happens again.

Today, the Trump administration is slowly taking steps to remedy the health crisis we endured under President Joe Biden, such as decreasing vaccine requirements and removing chemicals from our food. We can see each of these victories touted by parents and influencers alike.

But it’s not enough.

The current Food and Drug Administration and Health and Human Services officials need to do what Fauci and his team never did: put women and children first. That means releasing the truth about the dangerous abortion pill, which now accounts for 65% of all abortions in the United States, killing thousands of preborn babies each day and harming women.

True accountability means reviewing the data, bringing back safety requirements, ending mail-order pills, and pulling mifepristone off the market for good.

For more than a year, the FDA and HHS teams have known about real-world data that shows the harmful effects of the abortion pill. Although they’ve promised to conduct their own study, we’ve yet to see movement on this pressing issue.

Insurance claims analyzed by the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that 1 in 10 women experience serious adverse events such as sepsis, infection, or hemorrhage within 45 days of a chemical abortion. This is 22 times higher than the “less than 0.5%” figure long cited on the drug label. Why wait to review and highlight these statistics for the American people?

In addition to broadly publicizing these serious complications, the FDA should restore basic safeguards for the abortion pill by reinstating the in-person dispensing requirement, rather than today’s dangerous mail-order distribution, which has led to rampant coercion, abuse, and parental circumvention.

By not releasing its study as soon as possible and having no safety requirements in place for these lethal pills, the FDA is putting women and children at grave risk.

The reality is that chemical abortion has led to the deaths of 7.5 million preborn children and at least 36 women. Ultimately, if our leaders were truly honest with the American people about the dangers of mifepristone, the first drug in the two-pill regimen, they would pull it from the market completely.

Planned Parenthood committed 430,000 abortions last year and is fueled by over $800 million in taxpayer funds. It’s no surprise they’re facing lawsuits for keeping these types of statistics under wraps. But we must hold our nation’s leaders accountable for the roles they undertook, rather than worry about whether we’re being told the whole truth.

The science is clear: life begins from the moment of conception. Each and every abortion is the intentional killing of another human being. Federal leaders must recognize the humanity of the preborn child in the womb and stop enabling workarounds that undermine protections for life. By prioritizing maternal health, adoption, and genuine life-affirming alternatives, we can truly care for the women and children in this country.

In 2021, mothers like me were pushed to take a shot without understanding the risks. Today, women are still being kept in the dark about the abortion pill, and preborn children are treated like an afterthought.

Let’s end the cycle of silence.

Only then, when we refuse to treat the next generation like an experiment, can we honestly say we’re serious about making America healthy.

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Kimberly Bird is a communications specialist for Live Action, a wife, and the mother of four children.

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