Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent victim of Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s sexual abuse, has died by apparent suicide, her family announced Friday.
&#8220;It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,&#8221; her family <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/virginia-giuffre-one-jeffrey-epsteins-prominent-abuse-survivors-dies-s-rcna203027?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=680c30990c1f320001019d49&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement to NBC News. &#8220;She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.&#8221;
Giuffre, who was 41, leaves behind a husband and three children. The family lived in Australia.
Giuffre was involved in several legal actions targeting Epstein.
She <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-predator-prowling-the-streets-the-trial-of-ghislaine-maxwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a defamation lawsuit against Epstein&#8217;s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she accused of grooming her for Epstein’s abuse when she was a 16-year-old spa attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach (Trump reportedly later <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510604-book-claims-trump-barred-epstein-from-mar-a-lago-after-financier-hit">banned</a> Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2007 for harassing another member’s teenage daughter). Giuffre said the sexual abuse she suffered included lessons on Epstein’s oral sex preferences.
Giuffre also sued Prince Andrew, claiming the British royal sexually abused her when she was 17. The prince has denied the accusations.
Last month, Giuffre <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/virginia-giuffre-death-updates-epstein-b2739856.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparked</a> alarm when she posted a photo on Instagram of herself in a hospital bed, saying doctors had told her she had &#8220;four days to live&#8221; after a car crash with a school bus. However, she was discharged nearly a week later.
Giuffre was one of the first people to call for criminal charges against Epstein, and other Epstein victims credited her with giving them the courage to speak out.
&#8220;Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors,&#8221; the statement said. “In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.&#8221;
Epstein was found dead at 66 in what was ruled a suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019. He was awaiting trial after being accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls.
The lurid details of his alleged sex ring include accusations that he procured underage girls for prominent men on his private island in the Virgin Islands, Little St. James.

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Wesley Lowery, a media darling of the Left who made a name for himself talking about race after George Floyd, has been accused of habitually sexually assaulting female journalists.
A number of female journalists claim the Pulitzer Prize winner plied them with alcohol at bars until they left with him and then sexually assaulted them, according to a Wednesday <a href="https://www.cjr.org/feature-2/wesley-lowery-sexual-assault-journalists-attest-experiences.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Columbia Journalism Review.
Lowery, 34, is a best-selling author and has reported for the Washington Post, CNN, and “60 Minutes.” He was also a tenured professor at American University and executive editor of American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop before he resigned in March amid the sexual harassment allegations.
The alleged encounters happened between 2018 and 2024.
Olivia Messer, now the editor-in-chief of Texas outlet The Barbed Wire, claims that in January 2020, Lowery kept ordering her alcohol at a bar and then pressured her into performing oral sex on him at her apartment. Years later, in 2023, she was again at a bar with Lowery when he was in a supervisory position over her, and the next morning she woke up to find him in bed with her. She said she could not remember having sex with him, but he told her they had.
“Whatever you do, do not tell Cara,” Messer said Lowery told her, referring to American University adjunct professor Cara Kelly, who ended up <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/17/wesley-lowery-sexual-misconduct-allegations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filing</a> multiple Title IX complaints against Lowery.
Ironically, Lowery also helped Messer with a reporting project about failure to address alleged sexual harassment in the Texas Senate.
Imani Moise, a Wall Street Journal reporter, said she met up with Lowery in December, 2018 at a Washington, D.C., bar where he bought her drinks until she was &#8220;sloppy drunk,&#8221; and then ordered an Uber and took her back to his apartment where he perpetrated a “full-blown assault” on her.
They had talked about the #MeToo movement beforehand at the bar.
Moise said that when she was assaulted by a different man as a teenager, she refused to give the police the man&#8217;s name because &#8220;I did not want to see another black man go to jail,&#8221; but she now says, &#8220;I am done with that.&#8221;
Another unnamed journalist, who matched with Lowery on Bumble, said he pressured her to drink more during a spring 2022 date. She woke up in his bed, and &#8220;he was inside of me.&#8221; She was half-conscious for a few moments, and then things went dark again, she said.
Later, she noticed that she had bruises on her body and a cut on her foot. She hooked up with Lowery a number of times afterwards, and a therapist told her, &#8220;Oh, you didn’t have control the first time, so you went back on your terms,&#8221; she said.
An unnamed writer-researcher who worked with Lowery claims that during a February 2024 encounter at a Washington, D.C., hotel, Lowery had a drink waiting for her whenever she came back from the bathroom.
They split an Uber, but when the car dropped her off, the female writer said Lowery pressured her to let him up to her apartment, even accusing her of &#8220;using him&#8221; for a job and saying she &#8220;hadn&#8217;t done anything for him,&#8221; according to a Title IX complaint. She felt her job was on the line and allowed him to come up, where he allegedly tried to get her into the bedroom and pull off her clothes, even when she asked him to go home. She said she pretended to fall asleep, and then he left.
At least three female students at American University said Lowery made them uncomfortable as well.
One student said she went into Lowery’s office during a journalism internship to ask him for advice about how to avoid alarming subjects of a story. He told her to close the door and said, “Well, Sophia, when you go on a date, you don’t just ask ‘Do you want to f&#8212;?’ You build up to it.”
Another female student had a similar complaint, claiming Lowery compared making interview subjects comfortable with asking for consent during sex, “Can I do this, can I do that, is this okay?”
A third student said he lit a candle and sat next to her on the couch in his office, which made her uncomfortable.
Lowery sent messages expressing regret to some of the women, but he has also pushed back on the allegations.
“CJR’s portrayal of these periods in my personal life is incomplete and includes false insinuations about complicated dynamics,” Lowery said in a statement to the Columbia Journalism Review.
“Still, I respect the women who have shared their experiences and take their perspectives seriously. As a young professional, I did not always recognize the power imbalances that surfaced as personal relationships evolved into professional ones, and vice versa. I should have better upheld boundaries that would have protected myself and others, particularly during interactions impaired by mutual intoxication. I have committed to sobriety, now approaching one year, and continue to work with professionals on my understanding of the power dynamics that accompany race, gender, and my professional success.”
In 2014, Lowery was named the National Association of Black Journalists’ emerging journalist of the year.
He wrote a book, &#8220;They Can’t Kill Us All,&#8221; which dealt with racism, police killings, and civil unrest. At one point on Twitter, Lowery said the Tea Party was “essentially a hysterical grassroots tantrum about the fact that a Black guy was president.”
Over the last decade, Lowery has zeroed in on racism and the police, reporting extensively on Black Lives Matter and winning a Pulitzer for a Washington Post database of police shootings called &#8220;Fatal Force.&#8221;
Lowery really rose to prominence after George Floyd&#8217;s death when he published an opinion article titled &#8220;A Reckoning over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists&#8221; that criticized news outlets for not &#8220;telling hard truths.&#8221;
After that, Lowery was in demand and began receiving invitations to serve on nonprofit boards and speak at events.

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Misgendering is now officially an illegal, discriminatory act under Colorado law.
On Friday, the state&#8217;s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, quietly signed the &#8220;Concerning Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals&#8221; without issuing a statement or holding a ceremony.
The law is drastically pared down from its original version, which declared that parents in custody battles who misgender or “deadname” their child were guilty of “coercive control” and could lose their child. Under Colorado law, &#8220;coercive control&#8221; is a serious category that <a href="https://frascona.com/sweeping-new-domestic-abuse-laws-for-divorcing-couples-unmarried-couples-and-children/">includes</a> things like threatening to kill someone.
But that provision is not in the bill Polis signed, thanks to Colorado parents, who came out in force to fight it. More than 700 Coloradans signed up to testify against the bill, and tens of thousands more signed petitions against it.
Ultimately, Democrats were forced to strike the radical custody battle language before the bill became law. Some Democrat lawmakers even backed down and refused to vote for the measure unless the child custody clause was removed.
Still, the new law bars Colorado courts from cooperating with other states with laws that protect children from parents who want to give them transgender hormones or surgeries. It also requires schools that have dress codes to allow transgender-identifying students wear the school uniform of the opposite gender.
The bill also allows people to change the gender marker on their driver&#8217;s license three times, up from just once.
&#8220;This bill was an attack on parental rights,&#8221; Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;And what we saw were people rising up, which I think is great. Our grassroots movement was really strong, and parents came out,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is an issue that transcends party lines. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a Republican, a Democrat, or unaffiliated. Nobody wants the government to be raising our children or telling us how to raise our children.&#8221;
Pugliese said Colorado&#8217;s Democratic majority was able to use House rules to &#8220;shut our voices down,&#8221; explaining that they did not have the usual number of hours to debate the bill.
Democrats introduced the bill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-transgender-bill-in-colorado-its-coercive-control-to-not-affirm-childs-gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quietly</a> — late on a Friday evening in March — and quickly pushed it through committee, forcing Republicans and parental rights advocates to scramble to organize testimony and protests.
&#8220;So I think that also engaged people because they felt like even their representatives couldn&#8217;t have that conversation,&#8221; Pugliese said. &#8220;I think by the time it got to the Senate, between the national attention that it received and how much attention we received for our voices being silenced by the majority, people were definitely way more engaged.&#8221;
However, &#8220;bad bills never go away,&#8221; she warned.
&#8220;It is just a building block for where they really want to go in the future,&#8221; she said, urging parents to continue speaking out because &#8220;your voices are so needed at the Capitol.&#8221;
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This bill just got introduced late Friday evening &amp; we just found out today it’s scheduled for Judiciary Committee TOMORROW. And it’s RADICAL.
No time to analyze it. No time to coordinate testimony. No time to talk with stakeholders or constituents. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coleg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/copolitics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#copolitics</a> <a href="https://t.co/YvWkJVghhq">pic.twitter.com/YvWkJVghhq</a>
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During heated debate on the House floor, Republicans warned Democrats that Colorado parents would not go quietly.
&#8220;When you tell a parent they can&#8217;t have their child because they&#8217;re not affirming that, you&#8217;re going to see a state blow up,&#8221; State Representative Scott Bottoms, a Republican, said on the floor as the bill was debated.
&#8220;It’s going to blow up in this state when you start taking kids from their parents. They&#8217;re not going to allow that to continue,&#8221; Bottoms warned.
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Stop everything you&#39;re doing and watch this Colorado Republican GO OFF against a bill codifying transgender ideology into law. <a href="https://t.co/lm3PbIjajo">pic.twitter.com/lm3PbIjajo</a>
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But the fight is not over yet, parental rights advocates say.
Erin Lee, executive director of Protect Kids Colorado, warned that Colorado family courts already favor the parent who affirms a child&#8217;s transgender identity.
&#8220;I’ve worked with a handful of dads here in Colorado and in other states whose exes have come to Colorado specifically for those protections, knowing that the family court system will always side with the parent who is affirming of the new identity,&#8221; Lee told The Daily Wire.
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Lee and her husband previously <a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/profile/colorado-mom-sues-school-district-after-daughter-was-pushed-into-trans-identity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> her 12-year-old daughter’s Colorado school district for allegedly secretly transitioning her. She cautioned that Child Protective Services can even be &#8220;weaponized&#8221; against two-parent homes that are not affirming of a child&#8217;s transgender identity, not just custody situations.
Lee also explained that, ironically, parental rights advocates might have been able to fight the bill in court if the child custody clause had been left in.
&#8220;What they’ve done now is they’ve made it even harder for us to stop what’s already practiced here in Colorado,&#8221; she said.
However, Lee said she thinks the transgender discrimination bill was a major turning point.
&#8220;[I think] we will see lawsuits, we will see ballot measures, we will see people not complying with the law across the board, and we’ll see organization of these grassroots orgs like we’ve never seen before in Colorado. I do think it’s the turning point,&#8221; she said.
Pastor J. Chase Davis of The Well Church in Boulder organized two rallies at the Colorado State Capitol against the transgender bill, and he agreed that the fight is far from over.
&#8220;The House Democrats all voted in favor of the pre-amended version of this bill, so their agenda is out in the open, the cat’s out of the bag, they’ve let known their intentions,&#8221; Davis told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;And here’s the deal, they’ve already been running this play in multiple places in Colorado, Jefferson County, down in Durango,&#8221; Davis noted.
In Durango earlier this year, one mother <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-lgbt-activist-teacher-trans-husband-house-minor-teen-girl-against-moms-wishes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> the police would not help her retrieve her 17-year-old daughter from the house of her daughter’s former math teacher and trans-identifying husband, who had taken the girl into her home.
In Jefferson County, school officials allegedly helped a 17-year-old girl lie on a federal form that she was homeless and hid it from her parents so she could move in with a teacher with whom she had an inappropriate relationship, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/officials-at-one-colorado-school-district-help-student-declare-herself-homeless-before-moving-in-with-teacher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to investigators.
&#8220;Christians need to get involved. We don’t need to be afraid of getting involved politically. We don’t need to be afraid of all the names they’re going to call you. Just stand for God’s truth, stand for the truth of reality in the public square, and I think there’s a lot of positive momentum that can come from that, and I think we can be an inspiration to one another,&#8221; Davis said.
Colorado has other controversial bills on transgender ideology coming down the pike.
A bill that was <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1309">sent</a> to the governor last week but is not yet signed bans health insurers from limiting so-called “necessary” transgender medical services like hormone treatments and surgeries.

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A federal judge issued an injunction Thursday blocking the Trump administration from dismantling the Education Department and ordered that fired employees be allowed to come back to work.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Massachusetts ruled that the administration was trying to illegally shut down the department without Congress&#8217;s approval.
“The record abundantly reveals that Defendants’ true intention is to effectively dismantle the Department without an authorizing statute,” Joun wrote.
“The supporting declarations of former Department employees, educational institutions, unions, and educators paint a stark picture of the irreparable harm that will result from financial uncertainty and delay, impeded access to vital knowledge on which students and educators rely, and loss of essential services for America’s most vulnerable student populations,” the judge wrote.
Joun also said that prior to the mass layoffs, the department was &#8220;already struggling to meet its goals,&#8221; so more reductions would &#8220;likely cripple&#8221; it.
The ruling came after two lawsuits, one filed by a pair of Massachusetts school districts and the American Federation of Teachers union, and the other filed by 21 Democratic attorneys general.
In March, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-order-dismantling-department-of-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order dismantling the Department of Education, following through on a key campaign promise to strengthen parental rights and improve academic outcomes across the country.
Trump’s order directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States and local communities.”
However, the order also told McMahon to “ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”
Also, any programs still receiving Department of Education funds will “terminate illegal discrimination obscured under the label ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ or similar terms and programs promoting gender ideology.”
Frustration with public schools reached a boiling point over the last several years. During the pandemic, parents pleaded with schools to open the classrooms and stop requiring face masks on children. After COVID, parents complained of crippling learning loss, schools hiding children’s gender identity changes, and teachers pushing controversial ideologies like Critical Race Theory.
“Everybody knows it’s right. The Democrats know it’s right,” Trump said just before signing the order. “We’re going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs, and this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it’s a common sense thing to do, and it’s going to work. Absolutely, it’s going to work.”
Trump said the United States has “two stats you don’t want — the most money spent per pupil, and you’re at the bottom of the list, and that’s where we are, like it or not, and we’ve been there for a long time.”

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Judge Blocks Dismantling Of Education Department, Orders Fired Workers Back

An Oregon education worker is suing his district, claiming it threatened to fire him for displaying several &#8220;transphobic&#8221; books, including Daily Wire host Matt Walsh&#8217;s children&#8217;s book &#8220;Johnny the Walrus.&#8221;
Rod Theis has worked as an education specialist at the InterMountain Education Service District outside of Portland since 2008. In his office, Theis had displayed several children&#8217;s books, including two titled &#8220;He is He&#8221; and &#8220;She is She&#8221; as well as &#8220;Johnny the Walrus,&#8221; all books with messages rejecting transgender ideology.
A school employee saw some of the books and complained that they were &#8220;transphobic,&#8221; even filing a &#8220;bias incident&#8221; complaint with the district, the lawsuit says.
In response, the district opened an investigation and ultimately &#8220;ordered him to remove them and threatened him with discipline simply because it disagreed with the books’ content,&#8221; Theis&#8217; lawsuit against the district, which he filed Wednesday, claims.
The district said the books were a “hostile expression of animus toward another person relating to their actual or perceived gender identity” and warned him that “further conduct of this nature” may result in discipline, including termination, the suit says.
Meanwhile, the district was allegedly allowing other employees to decorate in support of transgender ideology as well as &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; and support for the teachers&#8217; union.
&#8220;In their investigation, they didn&#8217;t say you can&#8217;t decorate your office with any messages,&#8221; Tyson Langhofer, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Theis, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;They said you can&#8217;t express this message, and many other employees and the school district themselves are able to express messages about gender and sex and LGBT-themed messages, but they specifically disagreed with this message.&#8221;
&#8220;The policy itself is problematic because it defines bias incident in very, very broad subjective terms, and it grants the school officials very wide latitude in determining what is a bias incident,&#8221; he said, noting that the policy uses &#8220;subjective&#8221; terms like &#8220;demeaning&#8221; or &#8220;derogatory.&#8221;
&#8220;But on top of that, the way they&#8217;re enforcing it here is very discriminatory,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;We&#8217;re definitely optimistic because the First Amendment is very clear that the government cannot target certain viewpoints for censorship,&#8221; Langhofer said, adding that &#8220;they made it very clear that it was Rod&#8217;s viewpoint that was being targeted.&#8221;
The lawsuit alleges the education district violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and demands Theis be awarded damages and allowed to display the books immediately. It also asks that the district&#8217;s policy be declared unconstitutional.
Theis&#8217; Christian faith informs his views around gender, his lawsuit says, including that &#8220;God created every person male or female, and that people should accept their God-given sex and not seek to reject or change it.&#8221;
&#8220;Everyone should be able to speak freely without fear of the government coming after you just because you expressed a view they disagree with,&#8221; Theis said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
Theis emphasized that his district &#8220;allows its employees to express various messages when decorating their offices, including political ones. But I was singled out and censored because I expressed a particular set of views that officials disliked.&#8221;
&#8220;Americans cannot learn to respect each other’s differences when they face the threat of career-crushing consequences anytime their personal beliefs contradict the ideological commitments of government officials,&#8221; he said.

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Vice President JD Vance will attend Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s inaugural Mass on Sunday at the Vatican, his office announced.
&#8220;Vice President JD Vance will lead a U.S. Delegation to Vatican City to attend the inaugural Mass of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV,&#8221; the vice president&#8217;s office said in a statement Thursday.
Second Lady Usha Vance will accompany her husband, and so will Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette Rubio. Rubio is also a Catholic.
Vance is the first Catholic convert to serve as vice president, his office noted. He met with the late Pope Francis on Easter Sunday, the day before the pontiff died at age 88.
Back in 2013, Joe Biden, then vice president and also a Catholic, led the delegation to Pope Francis&#8217; inaugural mass.
Pope Leo XIV, who is 69, was elected the first American pope by the conclave of cardinals on May 8.
Leo, who was previously Cardinal Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago and spent much of his priesthood in Peru until 2023, when he was made a cardinal by Pope Francis.
Francis made Prevost the Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, the Vatican official responsible for recommending priests to be made bishops around the world.
Prevost has been strong on Church doctrine, but he is seen as a centrist on political issues.
In February, before becoming pope, Leo <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-twitter-x-trump-vance-criticism-9c311123985ebce282877071f75b6d80" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appears</a> to have shared an article on X from a Catholic outlet with the headline, &#8220;Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn&#8217;t ask us to rank our love for others.&#8221;
The new pope has also previously <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/vp-jd-vance-rubio-to-attend-inaugural-mass-of-pope-leo-xiv/83644101007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> several posts critical of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration policy.
Despite any political differences, President Trump offered a congratulatory message after Leo was announced as the new pope.
“Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114473380014194441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social.
Trump also attended Francis’ funeral in Rome last month.
Vance congratulated the new pope the day he was elected.
&#8220;Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election! I’m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church. May God bless him!&#8221; Vance <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1920550545061810261" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X.
During his last visit, Vance and his wife and children attended the Passion of Christ Mass celebrated by a cardinal marking Good Friday at St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica.

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JD Vance To Attend Pope Leo XIV’s Inaugural Mass In Rome

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, told lawmakers on Wednesday that he has requested the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) do a &#8220;complete review&#8221; of the abortion pill.
The announcement was welcomed by pro-life conservatives, who previously wondered how RFK Jr., a former Democrat, would respond to abortion-related issues, having previously said that while he believes every abortion is a “tragedy,” the issue is “more nuanced and complex.”
During Wednesday&#8217;s Senate committee hearing, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) asked RFK Jr. if he was aware of a new analysis from the Ethics &amp; Public Policy Center indicating that mifepristone is many times more dangerous than the FDA says on the label for the abortion pill, and he said he was.
&#8220;It&#8217;s alarming,&#8221; RFK Jr. told Hawley.
&#8220;Clearly, it indicates that at the very least the label should be changed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve asked Marty Makary, who&#8217;s the director of the FDA, to do a complete review and to report back.&#8221;
RFK Jr. also said that he did not yet have a sense of the timeline of the review.
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RFK Jr. says he has asked FDA to do a thorough review of mifepristone in light of a study indicating serious side effects could be 22x more common than the FDA says <a href="https://t.co/kHLNGqsdeA">pic.twitter.com/kHLNGqsdeA</a>
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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-pill-22-times-more-dangerous-than-fda-claimed-new-study-says?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Abortion+Pill+22+Times+More+Dangerous+Than+FDA+Claimed%2C+New+Study+Says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> released last month found that more than one in 10 women experienced a “serious adverse event” after taking the mifepristone abortion pill in 2023. This can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis.
That is about 22 times higher than what the FDA listed on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023. The FDA <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered “serious adverse reactions” to mifepristone.
Meanwhile, more than one in 20 women need a second abortion attempt after the abortion pill fails, another analysis of insurance claim data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-1-in-20-women-need-second-abortion-attempt-after-abortion-pill-fails?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=More+Than+1+in+20+Women+Need+Second+Abortion+Attempt+After+Abortion+Pill+Fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> this week showed.
&#8220;We&#8217;re very thankful for this announcement from Secretary Kennedy. We encourage the FDA to conduct its own study to best ensure that women are given an honest and clear presentation of the dangers of the abortion pill,&#8221; Ryan Anderson, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and one of the authors of the analysis told The Daily Wire.
The two-pill chemical abortion regimen — mifepristone, usually followed by misoprostol — aims to end the life of the unborn baby and expel it from the woman’s uterus. However, the drugs sometimes fail to expel all the fetal tissue, which can cause life-threatening complications.
A few months before Roe v. Wade was overturned, the FDA scrapped the requirement that women must obtain abortion pills in person from a healthcare provider, allowing them to get them online through the mail.
“We applaud Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his swift directive to FDA for a thorough study of the dangerous chemical abortion pill,” Doug Truax, founder of Foundation for the Restoration of America, which put out another report on the abortion pill&#8217;s &#8220;serious adverse events&#8221; told The Daily Wire.
“The health and safety of women is at risk and we can’t allow ideology to trump science,” Truax said.
Last year, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-challenges-rfk-jr-on-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">challenged</a> Kennedy Jr. on abortion during an interview, telling him that abortion is “not just a tragedy. It’s a crime against the child because the child has an independent interest. What do you say to that?”
“I say that I understand that position, and I don’t agree with it,” Kennedy responded, adding that he believes “the solution of having the state come in and dictate choices that a woman is making is not a good solution.”
RFK Jr. appeared before both Senate and House committees on Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump&#8217;s proposed budget cuts to the HHS, which RFK Jr. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/rfk-jr-hhs-overhaul-hearing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> would be &#8220;painful&#8221; but would save money “without impacting critical services.”

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