A conservative group announced Wednesday that it plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to help maintain pro-life majorities in Congress.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its partner political action committee, Women Speak Out, will spend $80 million to fund canvassing, digital advertising, voter contact mail, and early voting campaigns in key Senate and House races across the country. The group said it hopes to make at least 4.5 million visits across the country with a focus on battleground races in Iowa, Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina. 
“Republicans simply cannot win without their pro-life base, especially in midterm elections when overall turnout drops. Pro-life voters are the heart and soul of the Republican Party,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America. “Our mission is to fire up pro-life Americans who do not consistently vote in midterms and convince persuadable voters to reject the Democrats’ extreme all-trimester abortion agenda.”
Pro-life voters were a significant part of the coalition that helped President Donald Trump win his surprising victory in 2016 after he promised to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. 
During the 2024 presidential election, SBA Pro-Life America said it contacted 10 million voters across eight battleground states. 
Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican who defeated incumbent Democrat Jon Tester in Montana last year, praised SBA&#8217;s efforts to support his campaign.
“SBA was there from the beginning,” he said. “They knocked over 100,000 doors in our state with 600,000 voters. That’s a massive amount. And the most important thing they did was shatter the narrative that we were somehow radicals because we wanted to protect the lives of unborn children.”
As a result of the election victories in 2024, Republicans in Congress were able to defund Planned Parenthood for a year in Trump’s signature “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
In recent years, Democrats have also campaigned heavily on abortion. Before the 2022 midterm elections, many Democratic candidates focused their messaging on the overturning of Roe. Former Vice President Kamala Harris embraced the same strategy during her presidential run last year and urged the Senate to overturn the filibuster to pass laws codifying a nationwide right to abortion.

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Americans are finding common ground on an unexpected issue, abortion drugs. <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/breaking-7-in-10-voters-want-to-roll-back-biden-covid-abortion-drug-policy-reinstate-in-person-doctor-visits">New polling</a> shows that rolling back dangerous Biden-era policies on the drugs is not only supported by a majority of Americans, but such support transcends traditional party divides and the “pro-life” versus “pro-choice” label.
Seven in 10 likely voters <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/National-Voter-Survey-Executive-Summary-.pdf">approve</a> of reinstating safeguards around the drugs by requiring a doctor visit for abortion drug prescriptions. Even more revealing, the majority of voters who were surveyed for the poll identify as “pro-choice,” representing a possible shift in how voters view the repercussions of the drugs for women’s health and safety.
Another 70% of respondents support doctors screening for and reporting possible abuse and coercion before prescribing the drugs, a policy that could have prevented the tragedy <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-attorney-poisoned-pregnant-wife-abortion-medication-sentenced-18-rcna138065">Catherine Herring</a> experienced firsthand when her husband purchased lethal abortion drugs online and tried to end her pregnancy by lacing her drinks.
Catherine’s abuser was enabled by the Biden Administration’s removal of abortion drug safeguards, which eliminated in-person dispensing requirements for abortion pills under the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) program. As a result, it’s easier than ever for would-be abusers and coercers to obtain the pills via mail. The FDA’s recent approval of a new generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone only compounds these risks for women by making the drugs even easier to access.
The response has been swift, with groups urging the FDA to rescind their approval and restore policies that protect women’s health and safety while affirming life.
The dangers of abortion drugs have never been more apparent. A recent <a href="https://eppc.org/news/largest-ever-study-of-abortion-pill-reveals-shocking-number-of-adverse-events/">study</a> from the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that serious adverse events from the abortion drug are approximately 22 times more frequent than the FDA currently reports, with over one in ten women experiencing sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other harmful side-effects.
A peer-reviewed <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6284/14/2/39">article</a> from the Charlotte Lozier Institute also debunked the popular claim that the abortion pill is “safer than Tylenol.” Just recently, the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs (AAPLOG) <a href="https://aaplogaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025.08.20-One-Pager-Clostridial-Infection-after-Mifepristone.pdf">sounded the alarm</a> on a dangerous sepsis-like infection that can occur after a pregnant woman takes mifepristone.
Even Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/rfk-jr-says-biden-twisted-the-data-on-abortion-pill-safety">admitted</a> that the Biden Administration had “twisted the data to bury one of the safety signals, a very high safety signal, around 11 percent” related to abortion drugs. Yet the FDA significantly expanded access to mifepristone with the approval of the new generic pill, rather than pausing to examine the current evidence of harm or complete the agency’s <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-fda-abortion-pill-mifepristone-safety-review/">promised report</a> on the safety of the drug.
In any other area of medicine, such findings would have triggered alarm, inquiry, and reform. In the absence of any such immediate action, the pro-life movement, state attorneys general, and Congress are standing in the gap to protect women.
A <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/coalition-hhs-fda-pull-abortion-pill-approval">coalition</a> of advocacy and policy organizations – led by Live Action with support from Students for Life, Concerned Women for America, Heartbeat International, Advancing American Freedom, AAPLOG, the Life Leadership Conference, and several others – joined with state leaders to demand a reversal of the FDA&#8217;s decision to approve the new generic version of mifepristone.
Attorney generals from twenty-two states, led by Alabama’s Steve Marshall, <a href="https://www.alabamaag.gov/attorney-general-steve-marshall-condemns-the-fdas-illegal-and-dangerous-decision-to-abandon-restrictions-on-abortion-inducing-drugs/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIn%20direct%20contravention%20of%20longstanding,terms%20for%20%E2%80%9Cprioritizing%20.%20.%20.">denounced</a> the FDA’s “illegal and dangerous” rollback of in-person dispensing rules. Fifteen more have <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5427732-republican-states-target-abortion/">called on Congress</a> to confront “shield laws” that allow doctors to mail abortion drugs into pro-life states while circumventing state laws.
Earlier this month, Senator Lindsey Graham led 51 senators in sending a <a href="https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2025/10/51-republican-senators-urge-fda-to-continue-to-stand-for-life-reevaluate-generic-abortion-pill-approval">joint letter</a> to Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, urging them to halt the rollout of the new generic drug and reinstate the safety rules that once governed its use.
Senate HELP Committee Chair Bill Cassidy followed with an <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/help-committee-chairman-cassidy-leads-critical-oversight-effort-on-abortion-drugs">oversight letter</a> pressing the same officials to explain how the agency could expand access while simultaneously pledging to “review the ongoing data.” Cassidy warned that the FDA’s decision “fails to mitigate the risks to women that have been identified and fails to protect women from the coercive use of the drug.”
The central claim is simple: women’s health and safety are on the line. The FDA and HHS must act to restore crucial safeguards.
Pro-life groups and elected officials echo the voices of women who have been harmed directly by abortion drugs. Women like <a href="https://eppc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1-Complaint-8.11.2025_compressed.pdf">Liana Davis</a>, whose hot chocolate was laced with abortion drugs by her boyfriend, resulting in a miscarriage; <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/victim-coerced-mail-order-abortion-suing-fda">Rosalie Markezich,</a> who was coerced by her boyfriend into taking mail-order abortion pills; and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-attorney-poisoned-pregnant-wife-abortion-medication-sentenced-18-rcna138065">Catherine Herring,</a> who unknowingly consumed abortion drugs slipped into her drink by her husband.
Their heartbreaking stories shine a light on the true costs of uncontrolled abortion drugs. Americans understand those costs too, and a majority want to see crucial safeguards restored. The FDA and HHS must respond and act before more women are harmed.
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<a href="https://x.com/davidbereit">David Bereit</a> is the executive director of the Life Leadership Conference.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Correction: The image for this article has been replaced and the second paragraph was updated for accuracy.

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What began as a peaceful, student-organized memorial in Manchester, England, to honor Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and promote free speech on campus quickly took a turn when protesters disrupted the event, and police were forced to intervene.
The University of Manchester&#8217;s Pro-Life Society had spent weeks preparing for the gathering, which featured guest speaker Lois Miller, a well-known pro-life advocate. The group hoped the event would serve as a respectful tribute to Kirk’s legacy and an opportunity for open discussion about the value of human life and the importance of free speech.
However, midway through the event, tensions escalated when protesters surrounded the attendees. According to Inge Botha, president of the pro-life group, officers intervened after about ten minutes of mounting pressure.
“When the mob was almost on top of us, the police stepped in,” Botha said. “They formed a barrier between us and the protesters after someone pushed over a portrait of Charlie Kirk.”
Botha added that members of the society flagged posts earlier that day from the university’s Feminist Society and Leftist Society, encouraging students to protest the memorial. According to guest speaker Lois Miller’s X page, the protesters outnumbered the pro-life attendees “ten to one” and brought speakers to drown out Miller’s remarks.
Botha was shocked by protesters and their ability to forget that Kirk was a husband and a father with two children.
&#8220;No matter who it is, you’d hope people could show some empathy,&#8221; Botha said.
One protester showed up in Charlie&#8217;s white &#8220;Freedom&#8221; t-shirt with red paint on his neck and shirt.
She added, &#8220;It&#8217;s incredibly concerning how comfortable they are with death and murder.&#8221;
Botha explained that her group’s mission is rooted in defending human life at all stages.
“We support human life from its beginning to its end,” she said. “We stand against abortion, euthanasia, murder, and assassination.” She hopes to make a difference in abortion and admires Kirk as an avid pro-lifer.
Guest speaker Lois Miller was invited for her extensive research and advocacy within the pro-life movement. In a recent article, titled “The Elephant in the Room Is Abortion,” Miller addressed Britain&#8217;s birthrate crisis, citing statistics that show 28% of Britain’s Generation Z were aborted.
“Abortion does not just end lives,” Miller wrote. “It leaves lasting scars on the women who undergo it. Physical complications, mental health struggles, and silent grief ripple through our healthcare system and society.”
Monday’s disruption was not the first time Manchester’s Pro-Life Group faced hostility on campus.
“At our first event, protesters followed us out of the building and down the street,” Botha recalled. “At another, one of our members was followed, and police had to intervene to make sure she could get home safely.”
Despite repeated confrontations, Botha says she remains undeterred and committed to the group’s mission.
“It shows how important open dialogue is,” she said, noting that past events have sparked meaningful conversations with individuals who approached afterward to ask questions and engage respectfully.
The Manchester Pro-Life Group plans to continue to host events that promote discussion around the sanctity of life and the importance of protecting free speech.

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A pro-life organization is fighting back after a leftist group ripped off its logo to promote so-called “abortion rights.”
40 Days for Life President Shawn Carney told The Daily Wire that the New Mexico group Pro Choice Las Cruces was illegally using his organization’s logo to push abortion. Carney said that he was prepared to sue the pro-abortion group if it did not stop using its proprietary material immediately.
In a pair of letters obtained by The Daily Wire, the 40 Days for Life legal team demanded that Pro Choice Las Cruces immediately cease using its logo. Those letters came after Pro Choice Las Cruces started mimicking the logo of 40 Days for Life on its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/people/Womens-March-Las-Cruces/61569465891530/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook page</a> in September, an action that Carney called a “clear violation” of copyright law.
The pro-abortion group took the logo, added an illustration of a woman’s reproductive system, and changed the words from “40 Days for Life” to “40 Days for Choice.” The group also changed the motto from “The Beginning of the End of Abortion” to “The Beginning of the End of Oppresion [sic].”
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Las Cruces is located at a key spot near the Texas border and is a popular destination for abortion tourism, Carney said. Neighboring states like Texas have enacted pro-life laws, pushing many to travel out of state to end the lives of their unborn children. New Mexico has no protections for the unborn in place.
40 Days for Life sent its first cease-and-desist letter on October 10, and another letter on Friday, warning the organization that it may be violating copyright law.
The letters were sent to Hailey Walker, a leftist activist linked to the Women’s March in Las Cruces. That organization shares a Facebook page with Pro Choice Las Cruces. According to Carney, the group responded to the first letter by refusing to stop using the logo.
“Given your response to our notice to cease and desist, it is clear your actions are willful and intentional. Pro Choice Las Cruces/Women&#8217;s March Las Cruces stole 40 Days for Life font, logo, name, colors and tagline in an intentional way to confuse the public,” a letter sent Friday by 40 Days for Life said.
Carney said that other leftist groups have co-opted their messages in the past and that his organization is prepared for further legal action. He said they would be ready to sue Walker “if need be.”
He also noted that instead of oppressing women, as Pro Choice Las Cruces suggests, pro-life activists support women by offering alternatives to abortion. 40 Days for Life often helps women considering abortions find free medical care alternatives.
“They feel unbelievable gratitude that we were out there and that we were willing to help them on what was a very hard day for them, and a day they never wanted to be in that position to be driving in for an abortion, but they were, and we didn’t judge them. We didn’t oppress them. We helped them and helped them with tangible alternatives,” Carney said.
In contrast, he said that the “left offers nothing with abortion” and feels threatened by the alternatives offered by groups like his.
Pro Choice Las Cruces has until October 20 to take down the logo or face further action from 40 Days for Life.

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WASHINGTON—Taking into account the anxieties of pro-life groups and the interests of restorative reproductive medicine advocates, President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a plan to lower the cost of in vitro fertilization and infertility treatments for American families.
Trump announced from the Oval Office that his administration had issued guidance allowing employers to cover IVF as part of company insurance plans. This is optional for employers, a senior White House official said on a press call with reporters Thursday, relieving some concerns from religious freedom advocates and pro-life groups. These groups find IVF to be an unethical practice, since it usually involves the creation and destruction of multiple embryos.
The president also revealed that he had reached a third agreement with EMD Serono, a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer of fertility medications, that will result in significant cost savings on fertility treatments.
&#8220;In the Trump administration, we want to make it easier for couples to have babies, raise children, and start the families they&#8217;ve always dreamed of,&#8221; the president said.
Under the deal, GONAL-F, a commonly used fertility medication, will be made available to women who purchase directly from <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/10/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-actions-to-lower-costs-and-expand-access-to-in-vitro-fertilization-ivf-and-high-quality-fertility-care/">TrumpRx.gov</a> at a discount amounting to 796% of the deal price, the White House shared. Low and middle-income women will receive an additional discount of about 2,320% of the deal price when they purchase from TrumpRx.gov. As a result, women will be able to save about $2,200 per cycle of fertility drugs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates.
EMD Serono also announced that, for the first time in its history, it will manufacture IVF drugs in the United States. It will also offer other medicines at a &#8220;deep discount when selling directly to American patients, guarantee MFN prices on all new innovative medicines that come to market, repatriate increased foreign revenue on existing products, and provide every State Medicaid program in the country access to MFN drug prices on EMD Serono products,&#8221; according to the White House.
&#8220;Today, EMD Serono is proud to help President Trump deliver on his promise to you,&#8221; Libby Horne, Senior VP of U.S. Fertility &amp; Endocrinology at EMD Serono, said in the Oval Office on Thursday.
&#8220;Thanks to the president&#8217;s leadership, EMD Serono has worked alongside distributors and other partners to help more families have access to services and innovations that are consistent with other countries. Through our partnership with the administration, we are pleased to announce that Americans will have access to our leading IVF therapies for an 84% discount off list prices.&#8221;
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Pro-life advocates who regard IVF as unethical had anxiously awaited the president&#8217;s actions, anticipating a policy similar to President Barack Obama&#8217;s controversial contraception mandate that might force Americans into conscience violations.
They&#8217;re not thrilled with the action, but they are a little relieved. As Ethics and Public Policy Center President <a href="https://firstthings.com/trumps-ivf-policy-could-be-worse-but-its-still-bad/">Ryan Anderson wrote</a>, Thursday&#8217;s news was &#8220;the least bad that we could have hoped for.&#8221;
&#8220;The details are still being promulgated, but, as White House officials explained it, there will be no IVF mandate or direct government subsidies for IVF,&#8221; Anderson said. &#8220;Those who feared something akin to the Obama contraception mandate or taxpayer funding of abortion can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no direct religious liberty or conscience violations, nor implications for taxpayer funding.&#8221;
This was partially because the Trump administration had gone to great lengths to gather the input of pro-life groups and advocates, as well as those pushing &#8220;restorative reproductive medicine,&#8221; treatments optimizing male and female reproductive health, which are also popular among the Make America Healthy Again crowd.
Nearly 18% of the global adult population <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/04-04-2023-1-in-6-people-globally-affected-by-infertility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experiences infertility.</a> Among American women, infertility rates <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr202.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are also alarmingly high</a>. Women across the country are grappling with endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, hormonal imbalances, and more, while men struggle with low sperm count, erectile dysfunction, diet, lifestyle, and other environmental factors.
Some experts, like Heritage Foundation’s Emma Waters, <a href="https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine">argue that infertility is a symptom</a> of underlying reproductive health conditions. A lack of research often prevents couples from improving their fertility and, in some cases, starting families. That&#8217;s where restorative reproductive medicine comes in — and the concept has been met with interest by many Americans.
June polling from the Heritage Foundation and JLL Partners <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-want-to-prioritize-solving-the-root-causes-of-infertility-over-ivf-poll">found that</a> more than half of Americans want to prioritize solving the root causes of infertility before using IVF as a first-line treatment, and that Americans hold a strong aversion to destroying human embryos.
Live Action, for example, met with the president&#8217;s domestic policy council several times and <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/assets/1749491232-rrm-ivf-memo.pdf">raised suggestions</a> on how to jump-start American fertility and &#8220;not fund unethical, expensive, and ineffective IVF.&#8221;
&#8220;It was bad but not nearly as bad as it could have been and as Trump promised it would be on campaign,&#8221; one pro-life leader shared with The Daily Wire on Friday morning regarding Trump&#8217;s new actions. &#8220;No subsidy and no mandate is a lot different [than] he sounded last fall. So still disappointed he is encouraging IVF at all, but happy it&#8217;s not [a] subsidy or mandate.&#8221;
&#8220;In my book preventing bad things is just as important as doing good things and I think the movement is responsible for preventing the very bad thing of an IVF mandate or government subsidy,&#8221; that leader added.
As Roger Severino, Vice President of Domestic Policy at the Heritage Foundation, noted, Trump&#8217;s announcement was not just about IVF.
&#8220;It expands access to infertility cures that treat root causes &amp; should cover restorative reproductive medicine,&#8221; Severino argued on &#8220;X&#8221; on Friday morning. &#8220;That’s huge and very MAHA.&#8221; 
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Important part of <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> IVF announcement today: it’s not just IVF. It expands access to infertility cures that treat root causes &amp; should cover restorative reproductive medicine. That’s huge and very MAHA. <a href="https://t.co/JdTbEcscFo">https://t.co/JdTbEcscFo</a>
— Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) <a href="https://twitter.com/RogerSeverino_/status/1978979299773329451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
Asked by The Daily Signal&#8217;s Elizabeth Mitchell about how &#8220;the new benefit plan will also include root cause treatments for infertility&#8221; and how he will make sure those &#8220;root cause treatments are equally accessible,&#8221; the president responded: &#8220;I think we&#8217;re going to be doing that.&#8221; Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer noted during the meeting that &#8220;the Department of Labor is issuing their intent today to open up the rulemaking process again for more flexibility.&#8221; 
&#8220;Any time that you have a president who is leading … when you can offer more access to health care at a lower rate, [it] is a benefit to the American people and to the end user, and that&#8217;s exactly what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;

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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) demanded Thursday that a radical pro-abortion organization provide answers on its involvement with the Biden administration’s targeting of peaceful pro-life protesters, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. 
In a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/10.16.25-CR-to-NAF-Gonen-re-DOJ-coordination.pdf">letter</a> to the National Abortion Federation, Roy gave the organization two weeks to provide documents and communications on its relationship with former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department. The letter comes after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-fbi-worked-with-radical-pro-abortion-group-to-target-pro-lifers-emails-show">reported last month</a> about emails that appeared to show that a pro-abortion group had worked with Biden’s FBI and DOJ to investigate Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) cases. 
Under Biden, elderly grandparents, devout Christians, and other pro-life activists were sent to prison over FACE Act convictions. Republicans have argued that these prosecutions were politically motivated. Roy, the chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, is heading up an investigation into the abuse of the FACE Act. 
“Documents indicate that the Biden-Harris DOJ may have coordinated with radical anti-life groups, including the National Abortion Federation (NAF), to prosecute peaceful pro-life demonstrators,” Roy wrote, citing The Daily Wire. “This coordination raises significant questions about the Biden-Harris DOJ’s misuse of the FACE Act.”
The documents, which were obtained by the Functional Government Initiative, included an email from National Abortion Federation Security Manager Robert Ledogar saying that his organization has “been part of several FACE Act investigations working with [assistant U.S. attorneys] and the FBI in TN, FL, VA, CA, NY, MD, and NC.” The email also touted the “amazing relationship” between the NAF and the Biden administration. 
“The Biden-Harris Administration weaponized the federal government to target its political opponents, including by selectively enforcing the FACE Act against pro-life Americans,” Roy wrote to the NAF. “During the Biden-Harris Administration, DOJ used the FACE Act to target prayer and peaceful demonstration near abortion clinics while failing to prosecute criminals who vandalized or threatened pro-life pregnancy counseling centers.”
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Roy noted that the apparent relationship between the NAF and DOJ raised questions about testimony from National Abortion Federation lawyer Talcott Camp when she told Congress in May 2023 that she had no contact with the Biden administration related to the FACE Act. That testimony came five months after Ledogar bragged in January 2023 about the NAF’s relationship with the DOJ. 
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A National Abortion Federation lawyer testified to <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chiproytx</a> that it had no influence over the Biden FACE Act prosecutions.
But Jan 2023 emails revealed today by The Daily Wire show it partnered with the Biden’s FBI and DOJ on multiple FACE Act cases. <a href="https://t.co/7uKMjhWR20">pic.twitter.com/7uKMjhWR20</a>
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“Given her senior position at NAF, the Committee has questions about who was engaging with the Biden-Harris DOJ regarding FACE Act prosecution,” Roy wrote Thursday. 
It is unclear which specific FACE Act investigations the National Abortion Federation was involved in, but at least two of the states referenced by Ledogar had major FACE Act prosecutions. 
For example, six pro-lifers in Tennessee faced over 10 years in prison after they were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-church-meeting-is-now-a-conspiracy-pro-lifers-pray-outside-court-after-conviction-over-peaceful-protest">convicted</a> of violating the FACE Act and conspiring against rights. Three of the pro-lifers were sentenced to prison over that case, which involved a group of Christians singing and praying inside the hallway of an office building outside an abortion facility.
“To develop effective legislation ensuring that civil rights laws are not used to target Americans who engage in protected speech, the Committee must understand the extent to which the Biden-Harris DOJ worked with ideologically-aligned groups to target pro-life Americans,” Roy wrote. 
The House Judiciary Committee voted earlier this year to repeal the FACE Act, citing its disproportionate use against pro-life defendants. Since its inception, data obtained by Roy shows that over 90% of FACE cases have targeted pro-lifers, even though it is supposed to protect crisis pregnancy centers and churches as well.

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Chip Roy Demands Answers About ‘Amazing Relationship’ Between Abortion Group And Biden’s DOJ

Chip Roy Probes 'Amazing Relationship' Between Abortion Group And Biden's Justice Department

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Louisiana sued the FDA this week for allowing the unfettered mailing of abortion drugs across the country.
The suit, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.213952/gov.uscourts.lawd.213952.1.0.pdf">filed</a> Monday by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, accused the FDA of enabling leftist activists to mail abortion pills into states like Louisiana, where chemical abortions are illegal. Murrill asked the court to strike down the FDA’s approval during the Biden administration of mail-order abortion pills.
“Every year, doctors and activists in states like California and New York mail a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved abortion drug called mifepristone to thousands of Louisiana residents for the express purpose of causing abortions in Louisiana that are blatantly unlawful,” the suit said. “This extra-territorial mailing of abortion drugs is illegal under state law—and it is the direct result of the Biden Administration’s 2023 agency action expressly facilitating this scheme. That action is the subject of this lawsuit.”
In 2023, the Biden administration changed the Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for mifepristone, the drug used in over 60% of all abortions, allowing it to be sent through the mail.
Mifepristone works by starving an unborn child to death by cutting it off from the necessary nutrients provided by its mother. A different drug is then taken to induce labor and expel the deceased baby.
Murrill argued in the suit that the FDA’s regulations for mifepristone are “arbitrary and capricious” and violate the Comstock Act, a federal law that bans the mailing of abortion drugs. Joining the suit was Rosalie Markezich, a woman who says her boyfriend ordered illegal abortion pills from California and was then pressured into taking them to end the life of her unborn child.
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In response to a request for comment on the suit, the Department of Health and Human Services said that it does not comment on pending litigation. HHS did point The Daily Wire to its commitment to conducting a study on the reported adverse effects of mifepristone.
“The Biden administration removed mifepristone’s in-person dispensing rule without studying the safety risks. We are filling that gap. Last month, I joined [FDA Commissioner Marty Makary] in writing to state attorneys general, pledging to review all the evidence — including real-world outcomes — on the safety of this drug. Recent studies already point to serious risks when mifepristone is used without proper medical oversight,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href="https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1973866621245567344">said</a> earlier this month.
The suit comes after pro-life advocates were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifers-demand-answers-from-trump-admin-after-shocking-abortion-pill-approval?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pro-Lifers+Demand+Answers+From+Trump+Admin+After+‘Shocking’+Abortion+Pill+Approval">shocked</a> last week after the FDA approved a new generic mifepristone pill. Fifty-two Republican senators sent a <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-10/2025.10.09%20-%20Letter%20from%20Senator%20Graham%20et%20al%20to%20HHS%20and%20FDA%20re%20Mifepristone.pdf">letter</a> on Thursday to the FDA and HHS urging them to scrap the regulations that allow the mailing of abortion drugs.
The FDA has said that it was required by law to approve the new generic drug and noted that it was conducting a review of the Biden guidelines. On a press call on Wednesday, SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said she was skeptical of that reasoning.
“This standard only seems to apply to this particular drug. It [has] certainly not been the standard for other drugs where there were questions that needed to be asked, that needed to get answers from those that were developing the drugs,” she said.

Appeals Court Keeps Abortion Pill Mifepristone Available, But With Restrictions

‘Blatantly Unlawful’: Red State Challenges FDA Over Mail-Order Abortions

Department of Health and Human Services

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Explosive documents reveal that President Biden’s FBI snooped on GOP senators, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh uncovers shocking new details about the early prison release of a Kentucky killer, and America’s leading evangelical magazine takes seven-figure donations from one of the nation&#8217;s biggest abortion funders.
It’s Wednesday, October 8, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Revealed: Biden FBI Snooped On GOP Lawmakers</h2>
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Topline: As the government shutdown continues, Washington has been rocked by new revelations that the Biden DOJ snooped on several Republican Congress members as part of its January 6 probe.
This week, Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released a document showing that President Joe Biden’s FBI obtained and analyzed phone metadata of eight sitting Republican senators and one Republican House member.
The move came as part of the DOJ’s previously undisclosed Arctic Frost investigation, which went after Republicans for alleged election meddling following the 2020 election. Grassley released a statement along with that document, where he said, “Based on the evidence to date, Arctic Frost and related weaponization by federal law enforcement under Biden was arguably worse than Watergate.”
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The Republican lawmakers targeted by the FBI were Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
Democrats’ response: Democrats have sought to downplay the story, saying the FBI was simply doing its job to investigate election meddling — and reminding folks that agents were not listening in on phone calls, and were only looking at who they called, and when. 
That has done little to alleviate Republican outrage. Blackburn excoriated the FBI in an interview with Morning Wire: “It is a violation of our civil rights. It’s a violation of our privacy rights. No one can find a time when … the FBI has done this.”
What Republicans want: Republicans have demanded an investigation to determine the extent of the scheme and who was responsible for it.
Former FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland would have had to approve the operation. Republicans want to know if President Biden was also involved. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Most Violent ‘Nonviolent’ Convict Secures Parole</h2>
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Topline: More details are coming out about the early prison release of a Kentucky man convicted in the brutal slaying of a young boy. He has shockingly been deemed a nonviolent offender.
What happened: Ronald Exantus broke into a family’s home and stabbed multiple people with a kitchen knife, including a 6-year-old boy who later died from those injuries. These crimes occurred in Woodford County, Kentucky, located just west of Lexington.
Exantus was tried in 2018 and found not guilty of that murder by reason of insanity. He was convicted for the lesser charge of assault and sentenced to 20 years in prison, but he was released in early October – 13 years early – and placed on just eight months of supervised probation.
Hmmm: According to the parole board, Exantus qualifies as nonviolent under Kentucky state law. The board has faced major criticism over the release, but it says that its members repeatedly voted for Exantus to remain in prison. 
In a statement to The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, the board said, “Every time it had the opportunity, the Parole Board recommended Ronald Exantus stay in prison.”
After a review for parole on September 30, the board announced that it had issued a decision to keep the criminal in prison for the remainder of his sentence. The board added, “Despite this decision, Kentucky law required the Department of Corrections to release the inmate on Mandatory Reentry Supervision.”
In short, state law required Exantus to be released because he wasn’t convicted of a capital offense related to the killing of Logan Tipton. He was only convicted on lesser charges of second-degree assault for attacking Logan’s sibling and father.
What happens now: Exantus is not quite a free man. He enters a state of parole, which means that he must abide by conditions. Those exact terms are still unknown, but in most cases, if the conditions are broken, the parolee could be sent back to prison.
The case could also come under federal scrutiny, as the White House has weighed in on the issue. On Saturday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt highlighted one of Walsh’s social media posts and said that the administration is looking into the situation. The White House said it is “wholly unacceptable for a child killer to walk free after just several years in prison.” 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Christianity Today Funded By Abortion Backer</h2>
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Topline: America’s most prominent evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, is under fire for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evangelical-magazine-christianity-today-takes-over-1-million-from-abortion-funder">accepting</a> financial support from a major abortion funder. Readers also accuse the publication of softening its pro-life stance in recent years.
Since 2022, Christianity Today has received more than one million dollars from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. That includes $600,000 for election coverage.
What makes this controversial is Hewlett’s history. The foundation is the second-largest private funder of Planned Parenthood in the United States. It gave the abortion provider more than $100 million between 2000 and 2023. 
After Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, Hewlett announced it was increasing its “reproductive equity” budget by 30% – essentially doubling down on supporting abortion access and securing Hewlett’s spot as one of the country’s largest abortion funders.
Influence on CT? Christianity Today has always maintained that it upholds a pro-life ethic. However, since Hewlett’s donations began, the magazine has started publishing articles that advocate for a broader definition of “pro-life.”
Instead of focusing solely on protecting unborn babies, these pieces have argued that the term should also include fighting racial injustice, supporting new federal entitlements like paid family leave, and supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Many pro-life leaders say that redefining the term in this way waters down its meaning. Seth Gruber, founder of the pro-life organization White Rose Resistance, told The Daily Wire that he believes leftists are deliberately working to redefine the term “pro-life” in an effort to advance progressive political priorities under its banner.
Also, in the run-up to the 2024 election, Christianity Today published articles arguing that the issue of abortion was not necessarily a good enough reason to vote and that Christians should consider sitting out. And their board chair took on the role of spokesperson for Evangelicals for Biden.
Step back: Christianity Today has become more reliant on grants and donations over the past five years. In 2020, only about 20 percent of its revenue came from grants. Today, it’s more than half. Over the past few years, it has also received $8 million from the Lilly Endowment, the foundation established by the Eli Lilly family, known for its pharmaceuticals.
Experts warn that when an outlet grows dependent on foundations with their own ideological agendas, it risks aligning with those priorities — even if that means softening its historic Christian commitments.
Part of why the controversy stings is that evangelist Billy Graham founded Christianity Today in 1956 to be a theologically conservative alternative to The Christian Century, which was considered liberal.
Critics have long contended that the outlet has drifted to the left in both tone and substance. The Hewlett Foundation’s funding, particularly the grants marked for “covering elections,” has struck many observers as confirmation of that gradual ideological shift.

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Morning Brief: Biden’s GOP Spy Games, A Child Killer Set Free, & Christianity Today’s Abortion-Tied Donor

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Last month marked 25 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion drug mifepristone, then called RU-486, for use in the United States.
On September 19, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, sent a letter to 22 pro-life state attorneys general informing them that the agencies will perform a review of the drug’s safety.
Such a review is long overdue and should result in the revocation of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone or, at minimum, the restoration of important protections around the drug’s prescription.
Since sending that letter, the FDA unexpectedly approved a generic form of the chemical abortion drug. RFK, Jr., and Dr. Makary have regulatory tools at their disposal that could begin the process of removing these dangerous drugs from the market. It is time for them to take decisive action.
The FDA first approved mifepristone in 2000 under a regulation known as Subpart H which allows for the expedited approval of drugs that treat “serious or life-threatening illnesses” and that provide a “meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments.” Mifepristone meets neither of these requirements.
First, mifepristone does not “treat” a “serious or life-threatening illness.” Pregnancy is not an illness and killing an unborn child is not treatment.
Second, chemical abortion does not now, and certainly did not then, provide a “meaningful therapeutic benefit . . . over existing treatments.” As a 2006 <a href="https://advancingamericanfreedom.com/mifepristone-resource-congressional-staff-report-the-fda-and-ru-486-lowering-the-standard-for-womens-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional report</a> on mifepristone’s approval explained, “it appears that no concurrently-controlled trials comparing medical and surgical abortion were required by FDA, because the Agency already knew that medical abortion—i.e., abortion by RU-486—is unambiguously inferior to surgical abortion with respect to safety and effectiveness.”
Nor, as the same report lays out in detail, did the FDA rely on studies of sufficient rigor to meet Subpart H’s requirements.
How could the FDA so blatantly disregard its own rules? Because the approval of chemical  abortion was <a href="https://humanlifereview.com/playing-politics-with-the-abortion-pill-a-quarter-century-of-abuse-of-power-at-the-fda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">political from the start</a>.
In his <a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/r01/___https:/advancingamericanfreedom.com/mifepristone-resource-judicial-watch-special-report-the-clinton-ru-486-files/___.YXAzOmFhZjphOm86YmM2NTQ4Zjk3MDAzZTY4MjA0NDM5NzQyZjdmNzQ4NGU6Nzo4ZDhkOjI3ZDY5MjU2MWJkOTU4OTZlNjNjYmUwMDI3ZmZjODA5NGMzNmZjYzNiYWU2NDk5MGYxZDE0MmIzNGE0Y2JiNjA6aDpUOk4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first official act</a> as President, Bill Clinton directed HHS to promote the introduction of the abortion drug into the American market. Over the next seven years, the Clinton administration worked to have the patent rights transferred to the Population Council, which then sought the FDA’s approval.  That transfer of patent rights was necessitated by the fact that the French company that owned the patent was unwilling to introduce the drug to the American market without indemnification of liability for the harms it would foreseeably cause.
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Upon approval of mifepristone, the FDA implemented certain limitations on the drug’s prescription to provide at least some protection to women. <a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/r01/___https:/storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.137.0_20.pdf___.YXAzOmFhZjphOm86YmM2NTQ4Zjk3MDAzZTY4MjA0NDM5NzQyZjdmNzQ4NGU6Nzo3MWI3OjEzNTE0ZGZhZjY0OTJkZGEwMzg2NmU3ZDRhYjFjYjlhZjQ2MDZiMzc2MzEyMDEzZjNkMmQ4NzgyYTJhOTEwNDY6aDpUOk4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Specifically,</a> the abortion drug could only be prescribed to women who were less than seven weeks pregnant, women were required to visit the doctor three times, and abortionists were required to report all adverse events.
These restrictions did not make mifepristone safe, but they did reduce the risk of harm to women. For example, in-person consultations provided women with necessary procedures, such as ultrasounds, critical for recognizing ectopic pregnancies, which, if left untreated, are deadly.
In March 2016, the Obama FDA significantly <a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/r01/___https:/storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.137.0_20.pdf___.YXAzOmFhZjphOm86YmM2NTQ4Zjk3MDAzZTY4MjA0NDM5NzQyZjdmNzQ4NGU6NzozMzQ4OjU0ZDdkY2E2NzEzOWExMDlmZTU0NzVjM2QwMTdkZmFjOGE1YzcxNzc3NTU2OWI3OTg4NzIxOGFlMjJhNjViYTc6aDpUOk4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reduced</a> these protections, now referred to as a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). Under the updated REMS, women could be prescribed mifepristone for abortions up to 10 weeks’ gestation and only needed to visit a doctor once, non-doctors were allowed to prescribe chemical abortions, and abortionists were only required to report fatal adverse events.
In 2021, the FDA “<a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/r01/___https:/storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.137.0_20.pdf___.YXAzOmFhZjphOm86YmM2NTQ4Zjk3MDAzZTY4MjA0NDM5NzQyZjdmNzQ4NGU6Nzo2ZGViOmVkNjQ0OWNmMjVmNWFiNzUyNDhjYzZkNGE2NzAxODU0ZTkyNjcwNGIzMDIzOWQyMGI0YWY5YjY2NjJkMDdlMzI6aDpUOk4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed</a> the ‘in-person dispensing requirement’” altogether.
In 2023, <a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/r01/___https:/nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2024/03/guttmacher-says-abortions-increased-after-dobbs/___.YXAzOmFhZjphOm86YmM2NTQ4Zjk3MDAzZTY4MjA0NDM5NzQyZjdmNzQ4NGU6NzpjZjQ2OmNhNDQ5Mzc5ZWY2OGZhYjg5MjYyMDNlM2RhZGU5NGU3MDU2YjE3M2YwMzlhNjQwMGYwMmYzNmI2MTkyMWIyMDg6aDpUOk4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">63%</a> of abortions were chemical rather than surgical, and <a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/r01/___https:/www.guttmacher.org/report/stability-number-abortions-2023-2024-us-states-without-total-bans-masks-major-shifts-access___.YXAzOmFhZjphOm86YmM2NTQ4Zjk3MDAzZTY4MjA0NDM5NzQyZjdmNzQ4NGU6Nzo0N2Q2OjFlMjhlNWE0NzQxODVlNWZiZDQ4YThmZWE5ODIzNTFkZTNlOWM3NWM5MGY4ZjJlOWI2NzY2YmM3ZGJmNDM4ZjI6aDpUOk4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tens of thousands</a> of chemical abortions were shipped into pro-life states in 2024.
The FDA’s review of the dangers of mifepristone to women’s health is long overdue. A recent study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center suggesting that the adverse event rate for chemical abortion is much higher than FDA data suggests, is only the most recent in two and a half decades of evidence that the FDA’s approval of the drug is dangerous for women.
Armed with this and other data, the heads of HHS and the FDA have legal authority to <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-314/subpart-D/section-314.150" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call for a hearing</a> to determine whether the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone should be withdrawn. This would be an important step toward removing dangerous chemical abortion drugs from the market, and allow the agency to delay approval of any other generic forms of mifepristone currently being considered.
For the past 25 years, mifepristone has been used to terminate innocent human life while injuring and harming women for life. The abortion drug’s reckoning is long overdue. The FDA’s recently announced review is a good first step, but pro-life Americans cannot rest until the dangerous chemical abortion pill is taken off the market and pre-born Americans are safe from its harms.
Marc Wheat is general counsel for Advancing American Freedom.
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The FDA’s Review Of Abortion Drugs Is Long Overdue

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A coalition of pro-life advocates led by Live Action President Lila Rose on Friday urged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to reverse the recent approval of an abortion drug. 
Over two dozen pro-life advocates petitioned the FDA following the agency&#8217;s Tuesday approval of Evita Solutions’ generic version of mifepristone, the drug used in over 60% of all abortions. The signatories say that instead of approving new life-ending drugs, the FDA should completely remove mifepristone from the market. 
“We urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to reverse this dangerous approval immediately,&#8221; the coalition wrote, according to a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/FDA-Coalition-Letter_-Abortion-Pill-10.3.2025-1.pdf">copy of the letter</a> obtained by The Daily Wire. &#8220;Rather than expanding the license for these drugs, the FDA should acknowledge the clear evidence of harm and withdraw mifepristone from the market.&#8221;
“Every abortion is a violation of human rights, and every life lost is an irreplaceable son or daughter. The federal government must stop enabling this violence under the false banner of ‘healthcare,’” they added. 
Signers of the letter included Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson, Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins, and Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance.
On Friday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the administration did not endorse the drug, but was required by law to approve Evita’s application because it was a generic offering of a drug already offered by two other pharmaceutical companies. 
The letter to Kennedy also laid out the brutal process that takes place after a mother takes a chemical abortion pill. 
“A chemical abortion consists of a two-step process. First, a pregnant mother will take mifepristone to starve her preborn child to death. Next, she will take misoprostol to induce labor contractions and deliver the baby&#8217;s dead body. At this stage in the first trimester, children developing in the womb already have a detectable heartbeat and brainwaves, and are beginning to move their arms and legs,” the coalition wrote. 
The coalition said that the approval contradicted a recent commitment from Kennedy to study the dangers of mifepristone. 
“Yet rather than pausing to examine the mounting evidence showing the harmful effects of mifepristone, the FDA has chosen to expand access to a drug that has already killed millions of preborn children and harmed countless women, undermining the very commitment that the Secretary publicly made to protect patients,” they wrote. 
Chemical abortions account for about two-thirds of all abortions in the United States and have ended the lives of at least 7.5 million unborn babies. At the same time, the mothers who take the pills often experience additional medical complications like hemorrhaging and sepsis. Studies showing the dangers of the drug have been manipulated to hide the harm, the coalition said. 
The decision has already triggered outrage from many Republican lawmakers. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said he had completely lost faith in the FDA over the move, while over a dozen Republican representatives <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-demand-rfk-fire-rogue-actors-at-fda-who-approved-abortion-drug?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Republicans+Demand+RFK+Fire+%E2%80%98Rogue+Actors%E2%80%99+At+FDA+Who+Approved+Abortion+Drug">sent a letter</a> on Friday telling Kennedy to fire the “rogue actors” at the agency who approved the lethal drug.

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A group of 13 House Republicans led by North Carolina Congressman Mark Harris demanded Friday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fire the bureaucrats responsible for the FDA’s “alarming” approval of a new abortion pill, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. 
Harris told Kennedy that the FDA’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifers-demand-answers-from-trump-admin-after-shocking-abortion-pill-approval?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pro-Lifers+Demand+Answers+From+Trump+Admin+After+%E2%80%98Shocking%E2%80%99+Abortion+Pill+Approval">approval</a> of Evita Solutions’ generic mifepristone, the drug used in over 60% of all abortions, ran contrary to the Trump administration’s pro-life record. Harris and his co-signers suggested that “rogue actors” in the FDA were responsible for the decision. 
“The approval of a generic version of this dangerous drug not only contradicts the announced review but also runs directly counter to this Administration’s stated pro-life agenda,” the lawmakers <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/10.3.25-Letter-to-Sec-Kennedy-on-Abortion-Pill-Approval.pdf">wrote</a>. “It is clear that rogue actors within the FDA are working to undermine both the sanctity of life and the Administration’s commitment to protecting it.”
They said that Kennedy should look at removing the officials responsible for the decision. 
“For this reason, we respectfully urge that you consider the director of the Office of Generic Drugs, the director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and other bureaucrats responsible for this reckless decision as part of your reduction-in-force evaluations,” he wrote. 
Signing onto the letter were Reps. Josh Brecheen (OK), Keith Self (Texas), Eli Crane (AZ), Paul Gosar (AZ), Chip Roy (Texas), Mary Miller (IL), Andy Biggs (AZ), Barry Moore (AL), Scott Perry (PA), Ralph Norman (SC), Sheri Biggs (SC), and Ben Cline (VA). 
Mifepristone works by starving an unborn child to death by cutting it off from the necessary nutrients provided by its mother. A different drug is then taken to induce labor and expel the deceased baby from the mother. 
Harris said that removing the officials responsible for the decision would send a message that the administration still believes in defending innocent life. 
“As stewards of the taxpayers’ trust and defenders of the unborn, we must ensure that no federal office operates in open defiance of our values or the administration’s pro-life commitments. This is a critical moment to send a clear message that the lives of the unborn and the health of women will not be compromised by bureaucratic mismanagement or ideological activism.
Commenting on the approval, Health and Human Services Communications Director Andrew Nixon told The Daily Wire that the FDA “has very limited discretion in deciding whether to approve a generic drug. By law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must approve an application if it demonstrates that the generic drug is identical to the brand-name drug.”
Nixon added that applicants for generic drugs do not need to submit independent evidence proving safety and efficacy. He also noted that HHS is conducting a review of the “reported adverse effects” of mifepristone.
Only two other drug companies, Danco Labs and Genbiopro, were previously approved to distribute the life-ending drug. The FDA wrote to Evita Solutions on September 30 that it had “concluded that adequate information has been presented to demonstrate that the drug meets the requirements for approval.”
The announcement shocked pro-life advocates, who have continued to press for action to crack down on the widespread distribution of abortion pills across the country.

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Pro-life advocates are demanding answers from the White House after the FDA approved a new abortion pill in a “shocking” decision earlier this week.
The FDA on Tuesday gave <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/appletter/2025/216616s000ltr.pdf">approval</a> for Evita Solutions to distribute mifepristone, a drug that is used to end the life of an unborn child in up to 63% of all abortions. After a pregnant woman takes mifepristone, her unborn child is cut off from the nutrients it needs to survive and is effectively starved to death. A different drug is then taken to induce labor and expel the deceased baby from the mother. 
The fatal drug has been increasingly available after the Biden administration allowed it to be mailed by doctors. Leftist activists ship the drugs illegally across the country with impunity. 
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) called the approval “shocking” and said he had lost faith in FDA leadership. 
“This is shocking. FDA has just approved ANOTHER chemical abortion drug, when the evidence shows chemical abortion drugs are dangerous and even deadly for the mother. And of course 100% lethal to the child,” Hawley <a href="https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1973801164052574259">wrote</a> on X. 
“FDA had promised to do a top-to-bottom safety review of the chemical abortion drug, but instead they’ve just greenlighted new versions of it for distribution. I have lost confidence in the leadership at FDA,” he added. 
Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) also questioned the move.
&#8220;Wow! The FDA just approved a generic version of the abortion pill, Mifepristone, a drug that ends a baby&#8217;s life 100% of the time and harms mothers. The FDA announced a new safety study just days ago, so why this new move now?&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/RepMarkHarrisNC/status/1973841437730222548">wrote</a> on X.
Only two other drug companies, Danco Labs and Genbiopro, were previously approved to distribute the life-ending drug. The FDA wrote to Evita Solutions on September 30 that it had “concluded that adequate information has been presented to demonstrate that the drug meets the requirements for approval.”
Evita Solutions says on its <a href="https://www.evitasolutionsllc.com">website</a> that “medical abortion care is rife with medically unnecessary restrictions and social stigma in the United States” and that it “believes that all people should have access to safe, affordable, high-quality, effective, and compassionate abortion care, regardless of their race, sex, gender, age, sexuality, income, or where they live.”
Evita said that it expected to have the life-ending drug available by January 2026.
&#8220;Evita Solutions is now the third manufacturer (the second generic manufacturer) with FDA approval.  Availability of our product will expand patients’ options for medication abortion with an affordable product backed by decades of safe use,&#8221; it said in a statement.
In response to questions about the drug’s approval, Health and Human Services Communications Director Andrew Nixon told The Daily Wire that the FDA “has very limited discretion in deciding whether to approve a generic drug. By law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must approve an application if it demonstrates that the generic drug is identical to the brand-name drug.”
Nixon added that applicants for generic drugs do not need to submit independent evidence proving safety and efficacy. 
“HHS is conducting a study of the reported adverse effects of mifepristone to ensure the FDA’s risk mitigation program for the drug is sufficient to protect women from unstated risks,” Nixon added. “The FDA does not endorse any drug product and directs prescribers to follow all labeling.”
The decision is already drawing backlash from pro-life advocates who have long warned about the dangers of the drug. Kelsey Pritchard, the director of state affairs for SBA Pro-Life America, called the decision “reckless.”
“This does nothing to help and fix the problem that we have with abortion drugs and mail-order abortion drugs, and instead puts a cheap drug on the market so that more unborn lives are taken and more women and girls end up in the ER,” she told The Daily Wire. 
Pritchard said that the Trump administration should reinstate restrictions on the mailing of mifepristone that the Biden administration loosened. 
“This decision is not MAGA. It is not MAHA, adding a new life ending drug to the market doesn&#8217;t make America greater or healthier, and this is not something that we would expect, especially at this time,” she added, calling for pro-life Republicans to call out the decision. 
Last month, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary told Republican attorneys general that they were studying the safety of mifepristone. Some studies have shown that the drug is not only fatal to the unborn child but can also bring serious health risks to the mother.

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