In the final days leading up to the midterms, Democrat Senate candidate Sherrod Brown is facing a new line of attack — that he helped pave the way for a Toledo man to obtain abortion drugs online and force them on his pregnant girlfriend.
A new ad from Reclaim Our Christian Culture PAC targets low-propensity Christian voters and will hit 250,000 homes on Friday, The Daily Wire can exclusively report. That ad, which portrays Brown as an “abortion radical,” will have a total of 4 million impressions on connected TV (Hulu, Peacock, and similar platforms) as well as on social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X).
Brown formerly served in the Senate from 2007 to 2025 but lost his seat to Republican Bernie Moreno in 2024. Now he’s challenging Jon Husted, who filled JD Vance’s seat when Vance left it to become vice president of the United States.
“A man in Toledo ordered abortion pills online to drug his pregnant girlfriend,” the ad’s narrator states. “He crushed the pills and forced them down her throat as she slept.”
It continues: “How did he get the pills online? Because Sherrod Brown pressured the FDA to allow abortion pills by mail. Brown’s pressure campaign on the FDA has led to the largest expansion of abortion in Ohio history. Stop Sherrod Brown. The abortion radical.”
The ad shares the story of Hassan-James Abbas, an Ohio man sentenced to six months in prison in September for forcing his pregnant girlfriend, Jona Affholder, to take abortion drugs in December 2024. The drugs killed Affholder’s baby.
“People can argue endlessly about abortion, but no woman should fear being drugged against her will,” Affholder wrote in a Daily Wire op-ed earlier this year. “No woman should wake up to someone forcing abortion drugs down her throat. What happened to me violated every principle of healthcare.”
Aaron Baer, the director of the PAC behind the ad, told The Daily Wire that Brown likes to say he is pro-choice, but “his pressure campaign on the FDA stole the choice from a woman in Toledo.”
“Brown’s support for removing the in-person safeguard handed abusers a mail-order weapon,” he said. “Ohio’s Christian voters must fight back against this radical abortion politics to protect unborn children and the women who refuse to become victims of it.”
The FDA removed a slew of abortion drug safety requirements during the coronavirus pandemic under Joe Biden, ostensibly to make the pills easier for the public to access during the pandemic. But the FDA never reinstated the safety requirements, and under the FDA’s current rules, a woman doesn’t need to see a doctor in person to get the abortion drugs, which means she can get them easily mailed to her by a pharmacy.
Brown cosponsored Senate Resolution 510 in December 2023, supporting the FDA’s claim that the abortion drug mifepristone was “safe and effective” and can be administered by mail.
Pro-life advocates have warned for years now that this can often result in danger to the woman and to the unborn child. In July, 14 women harmed by abortion drugs urged Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to settle a federal lawsuit over mail-order abortion drugs, arguing that abortions-by-mail harm many women and open the door to documented cases of coercion and violence.
The pro-life message is notable given the balancing act with which President Donald Trump’s administration has approached the topic in recent years. Though Trump is celebrated as the most pro-life president in United States history, his second administration has taken a notable step back from abortion politics, an issue which Democrats heavily leaned into during the 2024 election.
In Ohio, several groups have focused on pro-life messaging to target Brown. The Women Speak Out PAC, a partner of top pro-life group SBA Pro-Life America, released an ad earlier this year accusing Brown and Amy Acton of crossing a line when they voted to allow essentially unlimited abortions, including late-term abortions of babies that can feel pain.
“Every limit, every safeguard, gone,” that ad argues. “Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton. Wrong side of the line, wrong for Ohio.”
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