As the Senate considers Dr. Martin Makary’s nomination to lead the Food and Drug Administration, the safety of all Americans — especially women and children — must be a top priority. For far too long, the FDA has been grossly negligent regarding essential safeguards surrounding the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone. Dr. Makary’s initial hearing provided a glimpse into his commitment to <a href="https://grabien.com/file/getmedia?id=2831540&amp;key=756f0397187f6b49fdaab04e60406327&amp;userid=17147">data-based approaches</a> to providing the best care for our patients. I’m hopeful that this expected confirmation will stand as a first step to the FDA reprioritizing the health and safety of women and children.
Despite the common refrain that abortion should be a decision &#8220;between a woman and her doctor,&#8221; doctors are too often left out of the picture by what has become a highly politicized and aggressively pro-abortion FDA. To the detriment of women’s health and safety, the FDA has for too long made women’s health a pawn in abortion politics by promoting drug-induced abortions as safe and recklessly ignoring the necessity of proper medical oversight.
Due in large part to the Biden-era FDA’s gutting of the requirements necessary to take mifepristone, women today are denied crucial medical care in life’s most vulnerable moments. In fact, the FDA has recklessly removed its requirements that women meet with a doctor before taking abortion drugs, thereby denying women the chance to be screened for life-threatening conditions like ectopic pregnancy or to confirm how far along she is in her pregnancy. 
My 20 years of caring for women as an OB/GYN have affirmed what the medical literature <a href="https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2017/05/methods-for-estimating-the-due-date">shows</a> — the only way to ensure accurate dating of a pregnancy is to examine a woman in person, ideally with an ultrasound. This is crucial, because an error of just a couple of weeks could mean a significant increase in risk for the woman if she takes these drugs.
To be clear, I would never recommend dangerous drug-induced or surgical abortions to any woman or teen who comes to me for care, especially when so many life-affirming alternatives exist to effectively care for both mother and child. 
The FDA also shamefully fails to require any follow-up visits, even though their own label on mifepristone states roughly one in 25 women who take it will end up in the emergency room. Selling women the lie that these drugs are safe, especially without the benefit of ongoing care with a doctor, is unethical.
With the urging of abortion advocates, and without appropriate evidence to support it, the FDA has also allowed abortion drugs to be shipped to women by mail, delivered straight to their doorsteps. This move not only puts women in danger of taking <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/01/the-web-is-home-to-an-illegal-bazaar-for-abortion-pills-the-fda-is-ill-equipped-to-stop-it-00048802">counterfeit drugs</a> that could cause them harm, but it also makes them <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/hidden-epidemic-nearly-70-of-abortions-are-coerced-unwanted-or-inconsistent-with-womens-preferences/">vulnerable to coercion and abuse.</a>
The new FDA leadership must prioritize women’s health by implementing key reforms. 
First, they should reinstate the requirement for in-person doctor visits so women can receive individualized counseling and fully informed consent, along with being adequately screened for potentially life-threatening conditions. It&#8217;s a simple but essential principle of medical ethics that patients have a right to informed consent before taking these high-risk drugs — something that can only happen with an in-person visit and individualized counseling. Even the pro-abortion American College of OB/GYNs (ACOG) <a href="https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2021/02/informed-consent-and-shared-decision-making-in-obstetrics-and-gynecology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a> that an adequate informed consent process is one where patients are “free to ask questions” and make a choice about their care, including refusing treatment. It’s impossible to have this tailored conversation when abortion drugs are dispensed online with no in-person interaction with a medical professional.
Next, should a woman choose to pursue a drug-induced abortion, the FDA should restore the seven week gestational age limit (currently 10 weeks) to decrease the risks associated with these drugs, as well as require abortion providers to see a woman for a follow&#8211;up visit to ensure her abortion is complete and to evaluate for and treat any complications she might be experiencing. This would be consistent with what was originally recommended when the drug entered the market and would reduce risks to women. With these protections in place, our federal leaders, regardless of their personal position on induced abortion, can at the very least reduce the risk of women dying from complications of abortion drugs and ensure that all women are receiving fully informed consent before taking them.
Reinstating the FDA’s original safety regulations for mifepristone is an essential first step toward protecting the health and safety of women across the nation. Women and girls seeking an induced abortion are often in a vulnerable and uncertain time of their lives. Rather than ensuring that they receive accurate information and ongoing medical care, the FDA has sold them a lie and denied them appropriate care. We all should work together to bring this negligence to an end.
Women and girls deserve the best medical care possible that is individualized and evidence-based. I&#8217;m hopeful that with Dr. Makary&#8217;s leadership the FDA will restore safety as the priority for American women and girls. Our patients deserve nothing less.
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Christina Francis, MD is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist practicing as an obstetric hospitalist. She also serves as CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Ten scientists filed their opening demand against a major academic publisher after they say it retracted their work exposing the dangers of the abortion pill for political reasons.
In a recently filed <a href="https://assaultonscience.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/02/2025.02.21-SvS-Arbitration-Demand_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arbitration demand</a>, ten Charlotte Lozier-affiliated scholars say that Sage Publications discriminated against them and violated its contractual obligations when it retracted three of their studies, including two on the abortion drug Mifepristone. They want a judge to rule that the retractions were erroneous and that they were discriminated against based on their beliefs.
One of the now-retracted <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23333928211053965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studies</a>, published November 9, 2021, found that the rate of emergency room visits following chemical abortions had spiked 500% from 2002-2015, according to Medicaid claims data. Another one of the studies, published May 20, 2022, <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23333928221103107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analyzed the likelihood</a> of recurring emergency room visits for women who did not disclose to doctors that they had a chemical abortion.
These two studies were <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.137.0_19.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> in Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-in-texas-suspends-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-used-in-up-to-half-of-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> to suspend FDA approval of mifepristone.
“Sage’s reasons for retracting the Articles were pretextual. Sage did not point to anything that could justify the rare and severe measure of retraction under prevailing professional guidelines, such as a major error or falsification,” the scholars&#8217; opening arbitration demand filed by lawyers with the Alliance Defending Freedom and Consovoy McCarthy says.
The February 2024 retractions, which occurred weeks before the Supreme Court heard arguments on the availability of abortion pills, were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/completely-unjustified-medical-journal-retracts-major-studies-critical-of-abortion-pill-ahead-of-supreme-court-clash">first reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
The lawyers argue that Sage breached its contract with the scholars, was guilty of negligence, and violated California&#8217;s civil rights law.
“The combined reputational and economic harm to the Authors from these unlawful actions is enormous and incalculable,” the filing adds. “Because of Sage’s retractions, the Authors and their research have been attacked by the media, by other authors, and even by a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Authors have had new research proposals inexplicably turned away by other journals that now fear associating with them. The Authors have years—even decades—of fruitful research ahead of them, but they are now being treated as pariahs.”
Dr. James Studnicki, one of the authors on the papers, was also kicked off the editorial board of Sage’s Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology journal, months before the retractions actually took place. The filing says that this was done for discriminatory purposes.
For resolution, the scholars say that a judge should rule that the scholars and Studnicki were discriminated against, that Sage violated its contractual agreement, a declaration that the retractions were erroneous, and monetary damages.
The scholars first filed their lawsuit against Sage in October 2024 in California. Sage did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul refused on Thursday to extradite an abortionist accused of illegally mailing an abortion pill to a Louisiana mother who allegedly pressured her minor daughter into ending the life of her unborn child.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed an <a href="https://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/2025-Extras/Extradition-warran-Doctor-Margaret-Carpenter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extradition warrant</a> this week for New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter after she was indicted on charges of criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs. Hochul said that she would not sign Louisiana’s order of extradition, citing the state&#8217;s abortion &#8220;shield&#8221; laws.
“This office received an order of extradition for a New York doctor, an abortion provider who lives upstate. In the state of New York, at my direction, we have put in place strict shield laws that anticipated this very situation,” Hochul <a href="https://x.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1890175495670775913" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We knew &#8230; we had providers who could be vulnerable. Louisiana has changed their laws, but that has no bearing on the laws here in the state of New York.”
“Doctors take an oath to protect their patients. I took an oath of office to protect all New Yorkers. And I will uphold not only our constitution, but the laws of our land,” she said.
Carpenter is accused of mailing abortion drugs to a woman in Louisiana who then pressured her underage daughter into taking them and ending the life of her unborn child.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill <a href="https://x.com/AGLizMurrill/status/1890214240142913793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot back</a> at Hochul, saying that she was covering up for a “drug dealer.”
“This child was NOT this doctor’s patient. She never met her, saw her, or knew anything about her. The child is a victim. [Hochul] is protecting a drug dealer who victimized a child,” Murrill posted on X.
Landry <a href="https://gov.louisiana.gov/news/4764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the minor was “excited” to have the baby and was planning a gender reveal party before her mother intervened.
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“Her mom conspired with a New York doctor to get a chemical abortion pill in the mail and then forced that minor to take it,” Landry said as he signed the extradition order. “This pill ended up ending her pregnancy and that baby’s life.”
Carpenter was also sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-stops-radical-abortionist-unlawfully-supplying-dangerous-drugs-kill#:~:text=Attorney%20General%20Ken%20Paxton%20has,in%20violation%20of%20state%20law." target="_blank" rel="noopener">secured</a> a $100,000 penalty and permanent injunction against her on Friday. He sued Carpenter for allegedly sending abortion pills into Texas in violation of state law.
“In Texas, we will always protect innocent life and uphold the laws that protect mothers and unborn babies,” Paxton said Friday. “Radical out-of-state doctors will not be allowed to peddle dangerous and illegal drugs in Texas to kill unborn babies. Any doctor attempting to do so will be punished to the full extent of the law.”

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Louisiana Battles New York Over Abortionist Accused Of Mailing Abortion Drugs

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When it overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Supreme Court eliminated the biggest legal obstacle to advancing the pro-life cause. But our fight has never been a fight against Roe v. Wade. It’s a fight for life – one that is only just beginning.
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court said that regulating abortion belonged in the hands of the people and their elected representatives. Since then, nearly half the states have passed pro-life laws of different kinds – while others have doubled down on their pro-abortion policies.
Pro-abortion states and activists, however, are not content with legally protecting abortion where they live. They are now passing so-called abortion “shield” laws designed to undermine the ability of pro-life states to enforce their own laws.
Normally, states cooperate with each other when, for example, it comes to returning individuals to where they have committed crimes. This cooperation is required by the Constitution, and by multiple agreements that most states have signed.
Abortion shield laws break from that tradition, potentially causing irreparable damage to the interstate comity that has characterized the United States for so long.
But abortion shield laws also undermine traditional medical practice, which has long considered the location of medical care to be that of the patient, not the doctor.
In 2022, for example, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), the board representing state medical and osteopathic boards, adopted a policy stating that the “practice of medicine occurs where the patient is located.” This is true, the FSMB said, even when a patient receives telemedicine: the state of care is the state in which the patient is located.
But states such as California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and Washington have passed laws reversing this principle so that the laws of an abortionist’s state apply.
This poses extreme risks, especially now that a majority of abortions are caused by drugs rather than surgery. It allows abortionists to mail abortion drugs into pro-life states while claiming that a completely different state’s laws apply – even though women receive, use, and (in case of complications) are treated for those drugs under the laws of their home state.
Abortion advocates know this is both nonsensical and dangerous.
The primary authors of this abortion shield strategy <a href="https://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/02/Cohen-76-Stan.-L.-Rev.-317.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledge</a> that “[s]tandard telehealth practice considers medical care to have occurred where the patient is located.” They also concede that “there are important reasons for defining care as occurring where the patient is located,” and that “shifting the location of care is a significant departure from the standard of care, the provisions of state medical practice acts, and the guidance of professional organizations.”
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They even admit that “the state where the patient resides typically has the strongest interest” and best means of protecting the safety of the resident patient.
Yet while abortion activists know all of this, for them, nothing comes close to matching the importance of maximizing abortion in this country. Nothing, not even protecting women’s health, can compete with killing unborn children.
Thus, they turn a blind eye while doctors prescribe and provide abortion drugs to patients they will never see in person – and whom they will not treat in the case of resulting complications.
The pro-life cause requires not only passing laws that protect the unborn but also being able to enforce those laws. These abortion shield laws have the same objective as the Supreme Court did in Roe v. Wade: forcing abortion upon states that oppose it. The March for Life calls us to fight for life on these new fronts, meaning it’s not outdated – it’s more important than ever.
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Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Abortion ‘Shield’ Laws: The Next Front In The Battle For Life

Abortion 'Shield' Laws: The Next Front In The Battle For Life

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North Carolina Republican Congressman Mark Harris introduced legislation on Friday that would block doctors from sending abortion drugs through the mail, he told The Daily Wire.
Harris put forward the “Teleabortion Prevention Act” to block doctors from providing women with drugs to end the life of their unborn child without conducting a physical exam or being physically present. The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/HARRNC_004_xml.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a>, introduced as pro-lifers gather in Washington, D.C., for the March for Life, would mean doctors could face up to two years in prison if they send an abortion drug through the mail for a “self-managed” abortion. 
“In the country, getting an abortion is as easy as walking to your mailbox. What this bill seeks to do is to protect women from that and it really just gives them an opportunity to be in a position to know what they’re doing,” Harris, a freshman representative, told The Daily Wire. 
He said the bill would block the mailing of abortion drugs across the country. Chemical abortions are now estimated to make up over half of all abortions and have only increased since Roe v. Wade was overturned. 
“If you’re in New York and you&#8217;re mailing those pills into Texas, then that’s going to be criminal. That’s going to be a problem,” Harris added, saying that the bill was in part motivated by the FDA loosening its guidelines on mailing abortion drugs in January. 
The legislation would prevent doctors across the country from giving abortion pills to women “without physically examining the patient,” &#8220;without being physically present at the location of the chemical abortion,” and “without scheduling a follow-up visit.” Doctors who violate the law could be fined $1,000 and subject to two years in prison. 
The legislation would not allow women to be prosecuted over abortion and would not impact ectopic pregnancies. 
“I believe God is the creator of life. I believe He’s the one that gives life and I think that we are bound to protect it in every way we can,” Harris told The Daily Wire. “When we see a life taken in the womb we are seeing the place that should be the safest place anyone would ever be on the face of the earth, and that’s in her mother&#8217;s womb, absolutely invaded and destroyed.” 
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Co-sponsors of the legislation include Republican Reps. Andrew Clyde (GA), Robert Aderholt (AL), Daniel Webster (FL), Brandon Gill (TX), Mary Miller (IL), and Michael Cloud (TX). Conservative organizations like SBA Pro-Life America, Heritage Action, March for Life Action, and the Family Research Council are also backing the legislation. 
Abortion pills have flown into red states since the end of Roe, including in states where chemical abortions are banned. These pills are often sent by leftist activist networks <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-leftist-networks-flood-red-states-with-risky-abortion-pills-with-no-consequences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who send pills</a> to anyone without any age verification or medical input. 
In December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ken-paxton-sues-ny-abortionist-for-unlawfully-mailing-abortion-drugs-to-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a lawsuit</a> against a New York abortionist accusing her of unlawfully mailing abortion drugs to a woman in Texas. The suit said the pill caused damage to the woman and ended the life of her unborn child.

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Two major retailers confirmed this week that they do not sell a popular abortion pill, despite pressure from Democratic officials to do so. 
Both Kroger and Sam’s Club confirmed to The Daily Wire that they do not offer mifepristone for sale after screenshots posted online last month appeared to show the life-ending drug available for purchase. Mifepristone is now used in over half of all abortions and has been used <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-leftist-networks-flood-red-states-with-risky-abortion-pills-with-no-consequences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">across the country to bypass</a> pro-life protections in Republican-led states. 
The controversy emerged last month after pro-life organization Live Action <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/kroger-sams-club-third-party-vendors-abortion-pill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that both Kroger and Sam’s Club had mifepristone, which is estimated to be used in over half of abortions, advertised on their websites. 
An <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241213171505/https://www.krogerhealthsavings.com/drug/Mifepristone?q=Mifepristone%20(Mifeprex)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archived</a> page from December 18 on Kroger’s website shows mifepristone listed for sale. 
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The company later told Live Action and The Washington Stand that the listing was a mistake. The retailer confirmed to The Daily Wire that it had never sold mifepristone, and that it was reviewing the FDA&#8217;s guidelines for the drug.
“Kroger Family of Pharmacies are reviewing the FDA&#8217;s updated Mifepristone Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy drug safety program,” a company spokesman said. “We will continue to align our dispensing practices with applicable federal and state laws.” 
Another screenshot from Live Action showed that Sam’s Club appeared to also have mifepristone for sale on its website. The company, a division of Walmart, also said the posting was made in error. 
“Regarding reports about details on our website, we use a third-party vendor to aggregate medication pricing, and their tool provided incorrect information,” a company spokesman told The Daily Wire. 
The acknowledgment comes after a group of conservative and Christian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-investors-urge-retail-giants-not-to-sell-widely-used-abortion-drug" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shareholders organized</a> by the Alliance Defending Freedom urged Kroger, Walmart, Costco, and other retailers not to sell the life-ending drug. This campaign came after New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said that retailers should make the abortion drug available. 
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Jeremy Tedesco, the senior vice president of corporate engagement for Alliance Defending Freedom, celebrated the news, saying that it was a “great outcome” and that it could be a “really significant” change in how corporations deal with politically-charged issues. 
He told The Daily Wire that abortion activists were “trying to co-opt the companies to advance their abortion agenda, regardless of what the law says. They want these companies to make abortion pills as widely available as possible.”
Tedesco added that until recently ”only the Left shows up for these battles with the corporations” but now conservatives&#8217; push to directly engage with companies was making a difference. 
He said that conservatives should want to neutralize companies on the issue of abortion, and that the companies should just focus on providing quality products. 
“The Left’s primary goal in all of this is to make the political process irrelevant by regulating all through what corporations do and how they behave,” he said. 
Alliance Defending Freedom has yet to receive any response from the companies it wrote to.

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A Republican lawmaker in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> introduced legislation this week that would penalize groups or individuals that mail abortion pills into the Volunteer State.
Rep. Gino Bulso (R- Brentwood) introduced the “<a href="https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/HB0026.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unborn Child Protection Act</a>” on Monday to crack down on the number of illegal abortion pills that have been sent into Tennessee despite the state’s strong pro-life protections. The legislation would make individuals or groups sending pills into Tennessee liable for up to $5 million if the pill resulted in the death of an unborn child.
“A person or entity, including, but not limited to, a manufacturer, distributor, seller, or reseller, of an abortion-inducing drug shall not mail or deliver an abortion-inducing drug into this state,” the text of the bill says. “Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a person or entity who mails or delivers an abortion-inducing drug into this state and the mailing or delivery results in the death of an unborn child is strictly liable in the amount of five million dollars ($5,000,000) in damages for the death of the unborn child.”
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, a number of robust pro-life laws went into effect in states like Tennessee that on paper banned all abortions in the state. However, leftist activists have eluded these bans by shipping pills directly in the mail to women seeking to end the life of their unborn child.
A Daily Wire investigation earlier this year revealed how a network of leftist activists have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-leftist-networks-flood-red-states-with-risky-abortion-pills-with-no-consequences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been shipping</a> unregulated foreign abortion pills across the country with no age verification, no prescription, and no concern about state laws that may ban medication-induced abortions.
For less than $100, anyone can order abortion drugs such as mifepristone and misoprostol online without a prescription. Age is not verified nor is a medical professional ever consulted, meaning anyone, including young girls, can easily get their hands on the pills after brief interactions on a shady website.
Bulso <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/11/gino-bulso-bill-seeks-5m-civil-liability-for-mailing-abortion-pills/76896838007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Tennessean that he introduced the bill because he had learned of pills being shipped into the state.
“I learned that there were some young ladies in Tennessee who had ordered and received abortion pills through the mail,” he said. “I began thinking about what else we might be able to do, both to deter folks from breaking the law and to provide a civil remedy to the family of an unborn child who&#8217;s killed because abortion pills were illegally sent into the state.”
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One of the major organizations promoting the shipping of abortion pills to red states is Plan C, which <a href="https://archive.ph/Ps9Vd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> itself as a “public health creative campaign” composed of public health advocates, researchers, social justice activists, and digital strategists.
&#8220;No amount of threat or fear will be successful in stopping abortion pills from entering Tennessee by mail,” Plan C co-founder Elisa Wells told The Tennessean.
President Joe Biden’s FDA allows abortion pills, namely Mifepristone, to be sent by mail per the Mifepristone REMS program, but the pills must be “dispensed by or under the supervision of a certified prescriber or by certified pharmacies for prescriptions issued by certified prescribers.”
An increasing number of abortions are being done via abortion pills and it is impossible to know how many are happening via mail-order abortion drugs.

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Tennessee Lawmaker Has Plan To Crack Down On Sending Abortion Pills Into State

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This is the fourth in a series of articles from Alliance Defending Freedom on the state of free speech in America today. October 21 to 27 is National Free Speech Week.
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“If it wasn’t for the information about Abortion Pill Reversal online, I would have completed the abortion and [my baby] would not be alive today.”
Maranda Halstead’s baby was saved because of speech — information that told her about an option to save her baby’s life after she had taken, and regretted taking, the first abortion drug. But if blue-state attorneys general have their way, that life-saving speech will be censored, and mothers like Maranda will never know about abortion pill reversal.
This week commemorates Free Speech Week, which gives us an opportunity to celebrate the freedoms we enjoy in the United States. Our ability to speak freely matters. And one of the most important ways we can use our speech is by speaking life to those around us. Unfortunately, some elected officials want to silence speech that offers women who have sought an abortion the chance to save their child’s life.
In 2023, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/medication-abortion-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">63% of abortions</a> were caused by abortion-inducing drugs. The abortion-by-drugs method involves taking two different drugs within a few days of each other. Some women regret taking the first drug (mifepristone) and investigate ways to halt its effects.
Pro-life pregnancy centers seek to inform these women that it may be possible to counteract mifepristone’s effects. When taken shortly after the first drug, progesterone has been shown to potentially save the life of the child. Progesterone is a naturally occurring hormone that has been used to support pregnancies for 50 years. Many women have used this method to try and reverse the effects of mifepristone, and studies and statistics suggest it has saved over <a href="https://pregnancyhelpnews.com/we-celebrate-each-of-these-children-aprn-marks-5k-lives-saved" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5,000 unborn babies</a> at a <a href="https://www.abortionpillreversal.com/abortion-pill-reversal/overview">64-68% success rate</a>.
For as much as abortion activists harp on “choice,” they don’t show much respect for those women who change their minds to ultimately choose life. Several states have made moves to shut down the speech of pro-life pregnancy centers that offer women hope and resources should they choose to save the life of their baby.
In 2023, Colorado enacted a law that prohibits doctors and nurses from offering women abortion pill reversal and assisting them in the process, making it professional misconduct to do so. For Chelsea Mynyk, a licensed nurse practitioner and certified midwife, helping women through unexpected pregnancies is a religious calling.
Yet she received a letter from the Colorado State Board of Nursing notifying her that she is being investigated for a possible violation of the Nurse Practice Act all because of an anonymous complaint about her provision of abortion pill reversal. This put Chelsea in an impossible position — follow her convictions or leave women without life-saving care.
Alliance Defending Freedom, where I serve as vice president of the Center for Life, <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/bella-health-and-wellness-v-weiser?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intervened</a> in a lawsuit filed by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, on behalf of Chelsea. The court clarified that Chelsea was protected on religious liberty grounds. This meant that she may continue to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/states-clamp-down-on-pregnancy-centers-over-abortion-pill-reversal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help</a> young women, like Mackenna, through the abortion pill reversal process. Mackenna recently gave birth to a healthy baby girl, who Mackenna “can’t imagine life without.” If Colorado had its way, Mackenna would never have known that Chelsea could help her choose life for her daughter.
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This crackdown on choosing to save the life of a child is not limited to Colorado. In New York, a federal judge <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/national-institute-family-and-life-advocates-v-james/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> Attorney General Letitia James from abusing her authority to censor pregnancy care centers’ speech about abortion pill reversal. The judge ruled the First Amendment protects the centers’ “right to speak freely about” abortion pill reversal and say it “is safe and effective for a pregnant woman to use, with her doctor, to reverse the effects of a first chemical abortion pill and, thereby, help to save the life of her unborn child.”
In California, a pro-life pregnancy center and pregnancy center network represented by ADF recently <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/california-pro-life-pregnancy-centers-sue-ag-censoring-their-speech?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Attorney General Rob Bonta for doing the same thing. Elsewhere, state politicians are filing agenda-driven investigations into pro-life pregnancy centers — not just for their promotion of abortion pill reversal. In 
Washington state, Attorney General Bob Ferguson <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/obria-group-v-ferguson?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed</a> his investigation into two faith-based, pro-life pregnancy centers after ADF sued his office for singling the pregnancy care centers out for their life affirming views. In New Jersey, Attorney General Matthew Platkin <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/platkin-v-first-choice-womens-resource-centers?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeted</a> First Choice Women’s Resource Centers with a burdensome subpoena because of their pro-life viewpoint.
The federal courts are rightly skeptical of government attempts to censor speech. But that hasn’t prevented state officials from trying to squelch speech with which they disagree — even if that speech might allow women to save the life of their unborn child. While opponents of the sanctity of life keep looking for creative ways to silence their political opponents, ADF stands ready to advocate for life and our ability to speak about it.
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Erin Hawley is senior counsel and vice president of the Center for Life and regulatory practice with <a href="http://www.adflegal.org/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ADFLegal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@ADFLegal</a>).
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Free Speech: As Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Speak Life, States Work To Censor Them

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) was confronted over the weekend for promoting a debunked story about a young woman who died in Georgia after she took an abortion pill.
The exchange happened as Walz, who was also confronted over the extreme positions that he has taken on abortion, appeared on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; with host Shannon Bream.
Bream noted that in Minnesota, Walz signed a bill into law that allowed abortion up until the moment of birth with no restrictions.
Walz deflected by claiming that he and Vice President Kamala Harris want to restore Roe v. Wade.
He also falsely claimed that it&#8217;s been &#8220;debunked&#8221; that the law he signed permits unrestricted abortion.
&#8220;What you signed is there&#8217;s not a single limit through nine months of pregnancy,&#8221; Bream pushed back. &#8220;Roe had a trimester framework that did have limits to the pregnancy. The Minnesota law does not have that.&#8221;
Walz completely ignored what Bream said and then falsely claimed that Trump was &#8220;asking for a nationwide abortion ban.&#8221;
The governor then promoted the lie that Georgia&#8217;s abortion laws led to the death of Amber Thurman, a young woman who died because she was not treated at the hospital after she became sick following her decision to take an abortion pill.
&#8220;To be clear, the Minnesota law is far beyond Roe v Wade,&#8221; Bream noted. &#8220;And about the Amber Thurman case in Georgia, her family &#8230; has said it was a complication from an abortion pill that she received and she didn&#8217;t get proper care when she went to a Georgia Hospital, which had multiple opportunities to intervene there.&#8221;
&#8220;Her own attorney, the family&#8217;s attorney, says it wasn&#8217;t the Georgia law, it was the hospitals,&#8221; Bream continued. &#8220;What he claims is malpractice, not treating her when she clearly showed up in distress and still had the byproducts of her pregnancy because of that rare complication from the abortion pill.&#8221;
Bream then confronted Walz over his decision to remove language from the law that protected babies who were born alive after an abortion.
&#8220;Language that used to be part of the statute was taken out,&#8221; she noted. &#8220;It used to require medical personnel to, quote, &#8216;preserve the life and health of the born alive infant&#8217;. That language has been repealed. It&#8217;s no longer part of the law. Also struck from the law was language about reporting infants that are born alive, what treatment they receive and whether they live or die.&#8221;
&#8220;Why was it important to you to get that protection out of the law?&#8221; she asked.
Walz falsely claimed that the law &#8220;aligns with every other case of what physicians are required by their ethical responsibilities.&#8221;
He then said that any questions about his extreme abortion views were &#8220;a distraction from the real issue here&#8221;, which he said was pro-life laws that protect the unborn.
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovTimWalz</a> on the Harris-Walz campaign&#8217;s abortion policy <a href="https://t.co/QfOOu2w6oc">pic.twitter.com/QfOOu2w6oc</a>
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Ten scientists are suing an academic journal that retracted major studies on the potential harm of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-leftist-networks-flood-red-states-with-risky-abortion-pills-with-no-consequences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion pills</a>, saying that the retractions were &#8220;politically motivated.&#8221;
The Charlotte Lozier Institute scientists, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom and Consovoy McCarthy, say that Sage Publishing violated California contract law when it yanked three studies, including two on the dangers of the abortion pill, earlier this year. The retractions, which occurred weeks before the Supreme Court heard arguments on the availability of abortion pills, were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/completely-unjustified-medical-journal-retracts-major-studies-critical-of-abortion-pill-ahead-of-supreme-court-clash">first reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
The lawsuit seeks to compel Sage to commit to arbitration over the scientists’ complaints about the retractions, which were issued in February.
“By retracting three studies by Charlotte Lozier Institute scholars without any legitimate objection to any of the findings, Sage put politics over publication ethics and blatantly disregarded the principles of open inquiry and commitment to science,” said Dr. James Studnicki, vice president and director of data analytics at Charlotte Lozier Institute. “The authors’ well-earned reputations as highly qualified scientists and researchers have been immeasurably harmed. We’re hopeful this opportunity to compel Sage to arbitrate in good faith will shed light on their meritless actions to silence our research.”
The <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23333928231216699" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retraction notice</a> from Sage stated that an independent review of the studies was conducted due to a single reader’s complaint that the studies included misleading data and that the authors were affiliated with a pro-life organization, the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
Studnicki, one of the authors on the papers, was also kicked off the editorial board of Sage’s Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology journal, months before the retractions actually took place.
“Sage’s wrongdoing has been causing enormous and incalculable harm to the Authors’ professional reputations, as Sage intended. Because of Sage’s retractions, the Authors and their research have been attacked by the media and by other authors, and the Authors have had new research proposals inexplicably turned away by other publications that now fear associating with them,” lawyers for the scientists wrote in a petition in Ventura Superior Court. “The Authors have years—even decades—of fruitful research ahead of them, but they are now being treated as pariahs.”
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One of the now-retracted <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23333928211053965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studies</a>, published November 9, 2021, found that the rate of emergency room visits following chemical abortions had spiked 500% from 2002-2015, according to Medicaid claims data. Another one of the studies, published May 20, 2022, <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23333928221103107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analyzed the likelihood</a> of recurring emergency room visits for women who did not disclose to doctors that they had a chemical abortion.
These two studies were <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.137.0_19.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> in Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-in-texas-suspends-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-used-in-up-to-half-of-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> to suspend FDA approval of mifepristone.
“Politics should never sway science, especially when that science is vital for saving and protecting lives,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Phil Sechler. “Sage punished these highly respected and credentialed scientists simply because they believe in preserving life from conception to natural death.&#8221;
In addition to ending the life of an unborn baby, the abortion pill can also come with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-claims-a-georgia-woman-died-due-to-laws-banning-abortion-heres-the-truth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serious complications</a> for the women who take them. A Georgia woman died in 2022 from complications with the abortion pill because she developed an infection after taking a pill to end the lives of twins she was carrying and the babies remains stayed in her uterus.

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Scientists Sue Publisher Over Retractions Of Studies Showing Dangers Of Abortion Pills

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A prominent conservative organization founded by former Vice President Mike Pence has denounced recent media claims that a Georgia woman died due to her state’s abortion restrictions.
Advancing American Freedom, which was founded by Pence, has released a fact sheet, provided exclusively to The Daily Wire, debunking the claim that Georgia woman Amber Thurman died because of Georgia’s strict abortion laws.
“Pro-Abortion activists and the pro-abortion media are seizing on the tragic death of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman, following preventable complications from the abortion pill, mifepristone,” the group says in the press release. “Here’s the truth: All pro-life state laws allow doctors to exercise their medical judgment to treat women with pregnancy emergencies. No law requires ‘imminence’ or ‘certainty’ before a doctor can act to save the patient’s life.”
The organization goes on to note that Thurman died due to complications from “a legal chemical abortion,” as The Daily Wire reported earlier. In fact, the organization said, “disinformation” killed Thurman, citing a study from Finland that found 20% of women who took mifepristone-induced abortions had complications. Mifepristone is the name for one of the chemical abortion drugs.
“According to Medicaid data, Mifepristone’s complication rate was approximately 100x higher than reported in data volunteered by <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23262942/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood clinics</a> and 273x the AE complication rate reported to the <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-18-292.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FDA</a>,” AAF added.
It wasn’t Georgia’s pro-life laws that caused Thurman’s death, AAF said, writing that “Georgia’s pro-life state law allowed for Thurman to receive the care she needed, ‘necessary in order to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.’”
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The press release is in response to media reports citing a ProPublica article that never provided evidence that the delay in Thurman’s care was due to Georgia’s abortion laws, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-claims-a-georgia-woman-died-due-to-laws-banning-abortion-heres-the-truth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. ProPublica admits this fact in paragraph 57 of the article, writing, “It is not clear from the records available why doctors waited to provide a D&amp;C,” referring to a dilation and curettage, the medical procedure to remove the remains from Thurman’s uterus that were left after she took the abortion pill.
“Every death is a tragedy,” the statement from AAF concluded. “The Pro-Life Movement cannot allow the tragic death of Amber Thurman to be weaponized against life and used as a cudgel to remove any protections for women and their babies. Pro-Life leaders must make sure the American People know the truth about this tragic situation.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Pence’s Group Denounces Media Claim That Woman Died Because Of Abortion Laws

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Media Bias

Over the past few days, media outlets, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/opinion/abortion-bans-death-thurman.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/amber-thurman-preventable-abortion-death-georgia-1954945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a>, and <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/amber-thurman-death-georgia-abortion-ban-rcna171301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC,</a> have all cited a claim that a woman died because of strict pro-life laws.
Amber Thurman, these outlets reported, citing <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article</a> from ProPublica, would have survived if not for Georgia’s laws on abortion. The truth, however, has nothing to do with Georgia’s abortion laws and everything to do with taking dangerous abortion pills without any follow-up care.
Thurman made the tragic decision to end the lives of her unborn twins by legally obtaining abortion pills in North Carolina. She took the pills and returned home to Georgia, where, five days after taking the pills, she faced a serious complication. ProPublica doesn’t say whether she received any follow-up care from the place that provided her the pills in North Carolina or whether they ever called to check up on her after handing her the pills.
Though abortion groups claim that abortion pills are safe and effective, pro-life medical professionals and legal scholars <a href="https://adflegal.org/article/what-fda-hasnt-told-you-about-mifepristone">point to</a> instances of serious medical complications, such as the one Thurman faced. Some of the remains from her aborted babies remained in her uterus and were causing her to develop an infection.
When she went to a hospital in her home state of Georgia, it took doctors several days to perform a D&amp;C, or dilation and curettage, the medical procedure to remove the remains from her uterus. There is no evidence at all that Georgia’s abortion laws played any role in the delay of this care, as ProPublica admits in paragraph 57.
“It is not clear from the records available why doctors waited to provide a D&amp;C,” the outlet reported near the end of its story. The outlet blamed Georgia’s abortion law that prevents an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. In Thurman’s case, there was no fetal heartbeat since the twins were already dead, thus the law wouldn’t have delayed care.
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Georgia’s law defines “abortion” as an act that “will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of an unborn child.”
Again, Thurman’s twins were already dead, so there is nothing in the law that would prevent Georgia from providing a D&amp;C. Instead, ProPublica spoke to unrelated OB-GYNs to speculate about alleged ambiguities in the law that could have made it responsible for Thurman’s death.
Thurman was treated when she went to the hospital in Georgia, as Life News <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2024/09/17/abortion-pill-kills-woman-left-remains-of-her-unborn-babies-inside-her/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. She was put on antibiotics and an IV drip, and the OB-GYN suggested a D&amp;C for the next day, but the procedure wasn’t performed at that time. The next day, the doctors continued her IV fluid, increased her antibiotics, and gave her blood pressure medication, as well as tested her for pneumonia and STDs. They also kept talking about the D&amp;C without performing it.
By the time they finally did begin the procedure, Thurman needed a hysterectomy, and doctors found blood in her bowels, which could have been a side effect of the blood pressure medication they had put her on. Thurman died during the operation, and her death was preventable if she had obtained the D&amp;C earlier, but there is no reason given for why this procedure was delayed – and there is no evidence it was because of Georgia’s abortion laws.
It&#8217;s not the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned that the media falsely claimed new restrictions on abortion hampered emergency care, as The Daily Wire’s Mairead Elordi previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-keeps-claiming-abortion-bans-hamper-emergency-pregnancy-care-but-the-examples-dont-hold-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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Media Claims A Georgia Woman Died Due To Laws Banning Abortion. Here’s The Truth.

Media Claims A Georgia Woman Died Due To Laws Banning Abortion. Here's The Truth. 

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