A group of Republican lawmakers asked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday to look at the dangers of flushing the abortion pill into America’s drinking water, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. 
Led by Rep. Josh Brecheen and Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the lawmakers urged Zeldin to take steps to probe whether the byproducts of mifepristone were ending up in drinking water and negatively impacting fertility. They argued that the deadly pills were not only ending the lives of unborn children, but also contaminating drinking water, making it unsafe for all Americans. 
“We recognize that the greatest tragedy of every abortion is the murder of the innocent. But we are also concerned that activist bureaucrats overlooked real public health risks posed by mifepristone in their crusade to expand abortion access,” Brecheen told The Daily Wire. “With chemical abortion now the most common abortion method in America, the public deserves answers about how these potent hormone disruptors affect our water supply and contribute to our nation’s rising infertility rates.”
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Congressional-Letter-to-EPA-re-Mifepristone.pdf">letter</a> notes that there were at least 648,500 medication abortions in 2023, and that many chemicals from the pills, meant to kill an unborn child, were ending up in the water system. The lawmakers said that since mifepristone is meant to disrupt the hormones of a pregnant woman that it could have endocrine-disrupting effects for the general public when introduced into the water system. 
“If residual amounts of the drug and its metabolites persist in wastewater, prolonged exposure could potentially interfere with a person’s fertility, regardless of sex. We believe it is reckless to allow a known progesterone blocker to be flushed into America’s drinking water without knowing definitively if it impacts fertility rates,” the letter says. 
Senators Cynthia Lummis (WY), Bernie Moreno (OH), and Jim Banks (IN) also signed on to the letter, as did 20 other House Republicans. 
They asked Zeldin if the EPA believed mifepristone should be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, if the EPA had considered monitoring or regulating mifepristone, and if the agency had conducted any reviews of the abortion pill&#8217;s impact on drinking water.
“Federal regulators are rightfully eager to study the health effects of many chemicals in our water and septic systems, but they haven’t examined the environmental and public health risks of chemical abortion drugs like mifepristone in those same systems,” Lankford said. “Scientific research on the health effects of water sources where there are trace amounts of a chemical that is designed to end the life of a child in the womb should not be controversial.”
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The action was also supported by Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins, who said that the Biden administration recklessly expanded the distribution of the abortion pill. 
“You don’t have to be pro-life to be concerned about endocrine disrupters in our waterways, potentially impacting our water safety, harming endangered species and our food supply, and perhaps even multiplying the rate of infertility,” she said. 
Medication abortion has quickly become the most common form of abortion, making up over 60% of all abortions, according to some estimates. The real percentage may be even higher because of the amount of illegal pills that are shipped into red states that have technically prohibited all abortions.
The Trump administration, which has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/serious-mistake-trump-admin-moves-to-dismiss-challenge-to-mail-order-abortion-pills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled some punches</a> against the abortion pill, took steps earlier this month to reevaluate the pill. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that he would conduct a review of mifepristone and its widespread use.

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As Planned Parenthood shutters facilities across the country, the organization continues to end the lives of unborn children at a rapid pace, recently setting a new record for total abortions in one year. 
A new <a href="https://all.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/STOPP_2025_Facilities_final-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the American Life League, first shared with The Daily Wire, shows that the number of physical Planned Parenthood facilities has declined from 567 in 2022 to 509 in May 2025. Despite that fact, Planned Parenthood acknowledged in its most recent annual report that it had aborted 402,230 unborn babies from 2022 to 2023, up from 392,715 the year <a href="https://cdn.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/ec/f4/ecf43d92-fcd2-4d11-b299-e67b5c3ac394/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf">prior</a>.
The American Life League told The Daily Wire it believes that the increase in abortions was likely due to Planned Parenthood’s push for expanded abortion tourism and online options for ordering the abortion pill. 
“Planned Parenthood’s business model and facilities continue to make abortion their top priority. However, the landscape has changed in our post-Dobbs America, and the abortion giant is now capitalizing on its distribution of abortion pills to women, not only through the facilities themselves but through telehealth visits, its phone app, and its new virtual health centers,” the report says. 
As states have adopted tighter pro-life laws following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, there has been a sharp increase in women traveling across state lines to get abortions. Planned Parenthood promotes this kind of travel and encourages women to seek financial assistance. The states that saw the greatest increase in abortion tourism in 2024 were Illinois, North Carolina, Kansas, and New Mexico.
At the same time, abortion by pill continues to increase. According to some estimates, medical abortions account for over 60% of all reported abortions. Even more go unreported because of the widespread availability of the abortion pill, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-a-leftist-network-of-websites-floods-red-states-with-abortion-pills-with-no-consequences-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even in states</a> where all abortions are supposed to be banned. 
The American Life League found that 133 of Planned Parenthood’s 509 physical facilities offer telehealth options for ordering abortion pills. Abortion pills can also be obtained through Planned Parenthood’s app or a virtual health center. 
There are currently 43 virtual health centers across 34 states, including 23 that offer abortion pill services, according to the American Life League. 
With Planned Parenthood’s app, women in states like <a href="https://www.plannedparenthooddirect.org/state/minnesota">Minnesota</a> are able to order abortion pills with overnight shipping for $349. The only <a href="https://www.plannedparenthooddirect.org/">steps</a> needed to get the pills are to request them, have a Planned Parenthood worker “review” the application, and then have the pills sent in “discreet” packaging to the woman’s home address or pharmacy. 
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American Life League National Director Katie Brown Xavios told The Daily Wire that she would like to see lawmakers take dramatic steps to crack down on the availability of the abortion pill. 
“I think given that reinstating the restrictions on the abortion pill doesn&#8217;t go far enough, we would have to completely take it off the market to affect any kind of change, because Planned Parenthood is always going to be two steps ahead with this kind of thing,” she said. 
Brown said it was positive that Planned Parenthood&#8217;s physical facilities were shuttering, including some that offer surgical abortions, partly the result of budget cuts due to the loss of government grants and funding.
Even more facilities could close if the Senate passes the &#8220;big, beautiful bill,&#8221; which cuts Medicaid reimbursements to facilities that obtain abortions. Planned Parenthood says these cuts could lead to the closure of some 200 more facilities. From 2022 to 2023, Planned Parenthood received nearly $800 million in taxpayer dollars.
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The number of Planned Parenthood facilities has steadily declined from their peak in the mid-1990s, when there were 938 facilities. The only states where Planned Parenthood currently does not have a physical or virtual presence are Wyoming, North Dakota, and Mississippi.
“While it remains unknown how many preborn babies are dying at the hands of Planned Parenthood from surgical, contraceptive, and pill abortions, it is clear that Planned Parenthood has built a landscape for more abortion through apps, telehealth, and virtual health centers, even as its physical facility numbers decline,” the report said.

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A major pro-life group is calling on Trump administration officials to step in and protect access to progesterone, used to reverse the abortion pill, as New York and California target the drug.
40 Days For Life wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, and other Trump officials asking them to acknowledge the safety of progesterone.
&#8220;The increasing efficacy of the use of progesterone to reverse the abortion pill has resulted in concerted legal action by radical pro-abortion states like California, New York and Colorado targeting pro-life organizations and health care providers serving the women seeking [abortion pill reversal],&#8221; 40 Days For Life wrote in their letter, which was provided to The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Ironically, they are removing women’s &#8216;choice&#8217; and limiting options to what the government decides is best for women and their babies,&#8221; the group wrote.
Progesterone, a hormone women produce naturally, has an important role in sustaining pregnancy and can reverse the effects of mifepristone, the popular abortion pill. Mifepristone causes the uterus to contract and expel its contents, while progesterone works to stop contractions and keep the uterine lining intact.
&#8220;We urge you to implement federal regulation and law that preserve[s] the right of health care professionals to provide progesterone to reverse the effects of the abortion pill, for those women who so choose, without fear or threat of frivolous over-bearing litigation by rogue state and local politicians and lawyers,&#8221; 40 Days For Life told Trump officials.
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In New York, Attorney General Letitia James <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-sues-anti-abortion-group-and-11-new-york-crisis-pregnancy#:~:text=With%20this%20lawsuit%2C%20Attorney%20General,experimental%20nature%20and%20potential%20risks." target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> investigations and lawsuits trying to use consumer protection laws to crack down on progesterone.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit accusing pregnancy centers of &#8220;false and misleading advertising&#8221; around progesterone.
Both states targeted Heartbeat International, a pro-life group that connects women with progesterone who take the abortion pill and then change their mind.
Shawn Carney, co-founder and CEO of 40 Days For Life, said California is essentially claiming progesterone &#8220;doesn&#8217;t work, it&#8217;s bad medicine, it&#8217;s witchcraft.&#8221;
&#8220;What&#8217;s so beautiful about this stupid lawsuit that he filed is that we just line up a bunch of kids and say, you know, it&#8217;s documented. These women had a chemical abortion. These women then sought abortion pill reversal. And here&#8217;s little Tommy,&#8221; Carney told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;The pro-life side will definitely win,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My hope and prayer is that this is something other states look at and decide we&#8217;re not going into crazy land with California. We&#8217;re not suing people.&#8221;
Carney also said California banned his group&#8217;s signs that read, &#8220;Ask me about abortion pill reversal,&#8221; but the group is &#8220;completely ignoring their stupid law and hope they sue us.&#8221;
With more than a million volunteers, 40 Days For Life says it is the world&#8217;s largest grassroots pro-life movement. The group organizes 40 days of fasting and prayer outside abortion clinics around the world every year.
An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-pill-22-times-more-dangerous-than-fda-claimed-new-study-says?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Abortion+Pill+22+Times+More+Dangerous+Than+FDA+Claimed%2C+New+Study+Says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> released in April found that more than one in 10 women experienced a “serious adverse event” after taking the mifepristone abortion pill in 2023. This can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis.
That is about 22 times higher than what the FDA listed on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023. The FDA <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered “serious adverse reactions” to mifepristone.
Meanwhile, more than one in 20 women need a second abortion attempt after the abortion pill fails, another analysis of insurance claim data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-1-in-20-women-need-second-abortion-attempt-after-abortion-pill-fails?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=More+Than+1+in+20+Women+Need+Second+Abortion+Attempt+After+Abortion+Pill+Fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> this week showed.
A few months before Roe v. Wade was overturned, the FDA scrapped the requirement that women must obtain abortion pills in person from a health care provider, allowing women to get them online through the mail.
Carney said mifepristone &#8220;just needs to be removed from the market in general.&#8221;
&#8220;We have basically this government policy that sends one in 10 women to the ER that is not based on medicine or safety for women or any of that, but is based on politics,&#8221; he said.
Last month, HHS head Kennedy told lawmakers he had requested that the FDA do a “complete review” of the abortion pill in the wake of the new data, calling it &#8220;alarming.&#8221;
Carney also noted that unlike a surgical abortion, women who take the abortion pill at home often see the remains of their unborn babies and are left traumatized.
&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve seen the usage of the abortion pills in America peak. I think they&#8217;re at their height, I think we&#8217;re going to start seeing them go down because they have a horrible word-of-mouth,&#8221; Carney said.

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A lawyer who defended many of the peaceful pro-life protesters targeted by the Biden administration praised the House Judiciary Committee for voting to repeal the decades-old statute used to put them behind bars. 
Steve Crampton, a lawyer with the Thomas More Society, told The Daily Wire that it was “very encouraging” that the Judiciary Committee passed a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/589/all-actions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> on Tuesday from Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The FACE Act, first passed in 1994, is a law that makes obstructing access to an abortion facility a federal crime and ostensibly provides the same protections for churches and pregnancy centers.  
In reality, Crampton noted, the law has been used to go after peaceful pro-life demonstrators, while attacks on churches and crisis pregnancy centers are often ignored. Data obtained by Roy show that 97% of all FACE Act prosecutions since 1994 have been against pro-lifers.
“You have ample law under state law and elsewhere to prosecute truly violent undertakings,” Crampton told The Daily Wire. “All the FACE Act adds is the physical obstruction component, which is targeted at peaceful civil disobedience acts that have historically been really cherished and celebrated in our country, rather than singled out for harsh federal prosecutions.”
Throughout multiple federal trials, Crampton defended peaceful pro-life protesters, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kidnapped-at-gunpoint-pro-life-activist-testifies-about-harrowing-fbi-raid-of-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Vaughn</a> in Tennessee and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-activist-sentenced-to-over-four-years-in-prison-over-protest-at-d-c-abortion-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lauren Handy</a> in Washington, D.C., who were convicted under both FACE and conspiracy against rights charges during the Biden administration. Both faced over a decade in prison. Handy was sentenced to over four years in prison, while Vaughn was sentenced to home detention. 
In January, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-should-not-have-been-prosecuted-trump-pardons-23-pro-lifers-targeted-by-biden-doj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardoned</a> the pro-life protesters, freeing Handy and others from federal prison. Trump’s Justice Department also issued a memo saying FACE would only be prosecuted in cases of extreme violence. 
Crampton said he was disappointed to see California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock voice opposition to repealing FACE during Tuesday’s hearing, as he argued that the law was neutral but abused by the Biden administration. Crampton said the law was inherently content-based, noting that you could only be charged under FACE if your intent was to prevent abortion and not just obstruction in general. He also said that the bias of the law &#8220;screams through the statistics&#8221; of the prosecutions. 
Vaughn, a Christian father of 11 whose Tennessee home was raided by armed FBI agents, told The Daily Wire he was happy to see the repeal advance. 
“The reality is it&#8217;s never done anything other than provide a federal hammer to be used against the pro-life community,” he said. “There&#8217;s not a law that it covers, that is not already a state law, or is not an infraction that it covers, it&#8217;s not covered under a state law.”
Vaughn says he would also like to see reforms brought to the conspiracy against rights provision from the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which Biden’s Justice Department paired with FACE in their cases against the pro-lifer protesters. That meant that Vaughn and others — like 89-year-old communist concentration camp survivor Eva Edl — faced over 10 years in prison. 
Crampton agreed, noting that he would like to see the provision heavily revised to ensure First Amendment protections or even done away with altogether. He thinks that FACE should be dealt with first because state attorneys general still bring FACE prosecutions under the law even if the Trump administration is not active. 
FACE “remains a very, very powerful weapon in the hands of these left-wing attorneys general,” Crampton told The Daily Wire, adding that &#8220;protecting fundamental First Amendment rights ought to be of the highest priority in our national debate&#8221; and that pro-life advocates should &#8220;keep charging forward.&#8221; 
A full vote on the repeal has not yet been scheduled for the House, and the legislation would likely have an uphill battle in the Senate. Republican Senators such as Mike Lee of Utah and Josh Hawley of Missouri have been very outspoken about the weaponization of the FACE Act.

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A coalition of pro-life groups led by CatholicVote and Nevada Right to Life urged Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo to veto a bill that would mandate a right to in vitro fertilization, saying that the legislation would be ethically and fiscally reckless. 
In a <a href="https://catholicvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Letter-to-Gov.-Joseph-Lombardo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> delivered to Lombardo on Tuesday, nearly two dozen pro-life and Christian organizations asked the Catholic governor to veto SB 217, a Democrat-backed bill that would create a right to IVF and require public and private health insurance companies to cover the procedures. Opponents fear that the bill would shield the IVF industry from any accountability for questionable bioethical practices and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. 
“We approach the issue of IVF from varying perspectives. While we are broadly supportive of the general principle of helping families struggling with infertility to conceive, IVF is bioethically and economically problematic. Healthcare must be sensibly regulated,” the pro-life groups wrote in the letter, which was first obtained by The Daily Wire. 
In addition to CatholicVote Vice President Josh Mercer, other signatories include Nevada Right to Life Executive Director Melissa Clement, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Democrats for Life Executive Director Kristen Day, and Moms for America Director Eva Sara Landau.
“The IVF industry currently operates in a wild west, with little to no regulation or restraint on its activities. It is already legal in Nevada. The bill would allow IVF practitioners to operate with complete impunity and hinder the state’s ability to enact health and safety regulations to protect women undergoing what is already a physically and mentally taxing process,” the advocates wrote.
They added that they appreciated Lombardo’s previous actions to “veto unreasonable and often extreme measures from the legislature.”
SB 217, which is also opposed by Nevada’s Republican Party, is estimated to cost at least $38 million in its first two years. 
The <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12292/Text#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would also put into law that “a fertilized egg or human embryo that exists before implantation in a human uterus is not a person for legal purposes.” Lawmakers across the country have moved to shield the IVF industry after the Alabama Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-supreme-court-says-couple-can-continue-wrongful-death-lawsuit-over-destruction-of-frozen-embryos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> 8-1 that frozen embryos should be recognized and protected as children. 
Tommy Valentine, director of the Catholic Accountability Project at CatholicVote, told The Daily Wire that SB 217 would allow the IVF industry to operate with virtually no safeguards in place.
“This bill would give the industry carte blanche to act recklessly. Let&#8217;s not forget that this bill is an unfunded mandate which will cost the state tens of millions of dollars per year and increase healthcare premiums for Nevadans,” he said. “It was passed in literally the 11th hour along party lines. A Republican governor should not be signing a bill like this, and we hope he will not.”

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The Trump administration on Tuesday ended another Biden-era abortion mandate, specifically rescinding the most recent interpretation of what&#8217;s known as the &#8220;Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act,&#8221; or EMTALA.
Under Biden, EMTALA guidance forced hospitals and pro-life health care workers to provide abortions if it&#8217;s deemed necessary stabilizing treatment. Critics decried the guidance as unlawful and a rejection of conscience protections.
&#8220;The Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (&#8216;CMS&#8217;) are rescinding July 2022 guidance from CMS with the subject &#8216;Reinforcement of EMTALA Obligations specific to Patients who are Pregnant or are Experiencing Pregnancy Loss,&#8221; a press release from CMS said, adding that such guidance no longer reflects the policy of this administration.
&#8220;CMS will continue to enforce EMTALA, which protects all individuals who present to a hospital emergency department seeking examination or treatment, including for identified emergency medical conditions that place the health of a pregnant woman or her unborn child in serious jeopardy,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;CMS will work to rectify any perceived legal confusion and instability created by the former administration’s actions.&#8221;
Pro-lifers were quick to celebrate the move from HHS. <a href="https://www.heritage.org/staff/roger-severino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roger Severino</a> of The Heritage Foundation, for example, posted, &#8220;President Trump promised to dismantle the abortion radicalism left by his predecessor and today another abortion mandate bites the dust.&#8221;
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&#8220;Wide majorities of Americans oppose forcing doctors and hospitals to take innocent human life and this change goes back to respecting conscience and the rule of law,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;EMTALA requires hospitals to treat unborn children and mothers in labor, yet shamelessly, abortion radicals inverted this clearly pro-life law to unlawfully mandate abortion nationwide, even though every state already has life of the mother exceptions.&#8221;
&#8220;To add insult to injury, the Biden order refused to acknowledge that the law protected mothers, or even women. Instead calling them &#8216;pregnant patients,'&#8221; Severino noted. &#8220;A stain on America&#8217;s conscience is now gone, and good riddance.&#8221;
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Days after taking office in his second term, Trump signed two orders to further prevent taxpayers from funding abortion, as previously highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-restores-mexico-city-policy-ends-taxpayer-funding-for-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>.
One of the measures, referred to as the Mexico City policy, prevents taxpayer funds from being sent to foreign non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions. The other, an executive order, strengthens the Hyde Amendment, which is a ban on the use of federal funds for abortion.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-restores-mexico-city-policy-ends-taxpayer-funding-for-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump Restores Mexico City Policy, Ends Taxpayer Funding For Abortion</a>

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It was just a few days ago that we discussed the extreme level of disdain that Democrats were displaying, seemingly out of nowhere, toward a small number of white refugees who were arriving in the United States. All at once, the same people with the yard signs that proclaim &#8220;no one is illegal&#8221; and &#8220;love is love&#8221; were suddenly overcome with bloodlust, all because a handful of Afrikaners landed at Dulles airport. In the history of &#8220;mask-off moments&#8221; in this country, this one ranks pretty high on the list. It&#8217;s a bit like when the Manson Family single-handedly destroyed the reputation of the hippie movement. Once you start talking about murdering people &#8212; or actually murdering people &#8212; you can&#8217;t really recover from it. No one&#8217;s going to buy your &#8220;peace and love&#8221; schtick ever again. They&#8217;re going to see you for exactly what you are.
In the case of the Afrikaners, what underlies the race hatred on the Left is their transparent desire to see all of Western civilization crumble. Everyone understands that now. They want to import Somali fraudsters and Central American gangsters while turning away white farmers precisely because they know that the white farmers will improve this country, while the criminals will destroy it. There has never been another point in American history where the political divide has been so stark: One side wants the United States to prosper, while the other wants the entire continent to devolve into a dysfunctional wasteland. They want to bring ruin to one of the few remaining functional countries on the planet. What this means is that, in essence, Democrats have adopted nihilism. They do not believe human life has any inherent worth or purpose. They reject truth and objectivity in all contexts. They are anti-human, and they&#8217;re no longer being very subtle about it.
For years, it&#8217;s been evident that nihilists and pro-human conservatives have been on a collision course. After all, these are not remotely compatible ideologies. They are not capable of co-existing in one place for any significant length of time. Humanity, simply by existing, enrages anti-human nihilists. And these nihilists are realizing that, despite their best efforts, there&#8217;s only so much destruction you can achieve by importing the third world and murdering children in the womb. Therefore, it was only a matter of time until one of these nihilists decided to take matters into his own hands and commit an act of terrorism. And on Saturday morning, that&#8217;s exactly what happened.
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Just before noon, less than an hour from downtown Palm Springs, California, a 25-year-old man detonated a vehicle-borne explosive device in the car park outside a fertility clinic called &#8220;American Reproductive Centers.&#8221; According to the authorities, the result was &#8220;the largest bombing scene that we&#8217;ve had in Southern California.&#8221; Several people were injured. Offices were damaged, although the lab at the fertility clinic, which houses eggs and embryos, was not affected. One man was thrown from his bike, and the impact was felt two miles away. Watch:
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You can listen to that whole news report, and you won&#8217;t find any explanation of the suspect&#8217;s motives. And you know why that is: It&#8217;s highly inconvenient for these people to tell the truth about Left-wing terrorism, because they&#8217;re still trying to convince everyone that white supremacy is the greatest threat facing the country. So here&#8217;s the truth: The bomber left behind extensive writings and audio recordings on the internet, meticulously explaining that he committed this act of terrorism as part of a &#8220;war against pro-lifers.&#8221; Those are his words. He says that &#8220;the bible is slander against Satan,&#8221; that God is a &#8220;creep,&#8221; and that &#8220;Your God definitely doesn&#8217;t exist, but if he did, I&#8217;d choose satan over your evil God.&#8221; The bomber also states that he wants to begin the process of &#8220;sterilizing this planet of the disease of life.&#8221; There&#8217;s also reportedly some rage against Elon Musk, who famously opposes the depopulation of the planet.
A day before the attack, according to researcher Erin Cruz, the bomber openly <a href="https://x.com/ghostmthr/status/1924158158471098647" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> his plans on a message board devoted to &#8220;sanctioned suicide,&#8221; right down to the precise bomb-making techniques he planned to use, and how he planned to be high on opiates at the time of the explosion. But apparently no one reported this post, even though several people &#8220;liked&#8221; it and responded. If this reporting is accurate, and it appears to be, then it&#8217;s obviously yet another indictment of our intelligence services. It&#8217;s also a sign of how pervasive this anti-human death cult is. There are entire communities devoted to ending the human race. And even when they&#8217;re talking about acts of terrorism, no one&#8217;s paying any attention to them.
But we should be paying attention, because what happened on Saturday was not an aberration. Nihilism is the guiding ethos of the elites, which is why every day, they&#8217;re promoting it in one context or another. Maybe the most striking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/controversy-rages-as-brain-dead-woman-kept-alive-to-save-unborn-child?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Controversy+Rages+As+Brain-Dead+Woman+Kept+Alive+To+Save+Unborn+Child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case</a> involves the Left&#8217;s current effort to secure the murder of a 21-week-old child in the state of Georgia. Here&#8217;s the background. In February, a 30-year-old woman named Adriana Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she began suffering from severe headaches. She went to the hospital, which gave her medications and sent her home. The next day, according to her boyfriend, she began gasping for air and making gurgling noises. A CT scan showed that she had multiple blood clots in her brain. As of now, she&#8217;s 21 weeks pregnant and brain-dead. She&#8217;s been kept alive on a ventilator for months so that she can give birth. In other words, the doctors are doing everything they can to preserve the life of the unborn child.
This is an outcome that, unless you&#8217;re a demon who despises humanity, you would obviously support. The alternative is to kill the child solely because his mother is brain-dead. But that alternative outcome is precisely what the corporate press is pushing for. In fact, it also appears to be what the woman&#8217;s family is pushing for. The woman&#8217;s mother, April Newkirk, just gave an interview with NBC News, where she suggested that they might want to kill the child because of the possibility that it will be difficult to raise him. Watch:
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You can tell what&#8217;s going on here. She understands that, if she comes out and tells doctors to murder her own grandchild, everyone will immediately recognize what a cartoonishly evil goblin that she is. So instead, she suggests that she just wants the &#8220;choice&#8221; to decide whether to kill her grandchild, without saying definitively whether she&#8217;d follow through with it. (Never mind the fact that, obviously, the only reason she&#8217;d want the &#8220;choice&#8221; is so that she can exercise that choice).
And that&#8217;s evident by the end of the interview, where she states that she&#8217;s &#8220;in her 50s,&#8221; and therefore she&#8217;s incapable of taking care of a child. That&#8217;s literally one of the excuses she uses to murder her own grandchild. &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m in my 50s and so is my husband; how could I possibly help raise this child? Better kill him instead.&#8221; Just pause to consider the implications of that statement for a second. And then realize that a major television network aired it, sympathetically, as if there&#8217;s nothing deranged and demonic about it. She&#8217;s looking at one tragedy &#8212; the death of her daughter &#8212; and then openly fantasizing about killing another member of her family. There are women in their 90s who would leap at the opportunity to help raise their grandchild, especially if it meant saving his life. But this woman&#8217;s just too old for that, apparently. Of course, if she were in her 20s or 30s, we&#8217;d be hearing about how the grandchild is just too inconvenient for her career or whatever. These people will rationalize murder in one way or another. That&#8217;s a given.
Now, to be as fair as possible to this force of personified evil that walks among us, she does offer another excuse, besides being &#8220;in her 50s.&#8221; She also says that it&#8217;s possible her grandchild might be &#8220;blind, and may not be able to walk.&#8221; Therefore, we&#8217;re supposed to sympathize with her decision to kill the child. Again, in a functioning, moral society, this woman would be in prison for plotting to kill her disabled grandchild. At the very least, she&#8217;d be receiving a psych evaluation as we speak. Instead, she&#8217;s being encouraged to say all of this. The corporate press and the Left are completely behind her. And of course that&#8217;s *why* she&#8217;s doing it. She&#8217;s flippantly justifying the murder of her own grandchild because, for her whole life, she&#8217;s been told that it&#8217;s her right to commit murder. And she lacks the moral character and intelligence to come to any other conclusion.
For Democrats and the media, the angle is pretty clear. They&#8217;re suggesting that Georgia&#8217;s &#8220;heartbeat law,&#8221; which bans abortions after roughly six weeks in most cases, has resulted in a dystopian scenario where women are being chained to beds and forced to give birth. They&#8217;re not talking about the life of the child at all. They&#8217;re not even discussing the extraordinary circumstances involved in this particular case. Instead, they&#8217;re pretending that women are going to be lined up, enslaved and turned into baby-making machines, at scale. Here&#8217;s one representative social media <a href="https://x.com/DarthandDogs/status/1923383548880331217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> — it has more than five million views and hundreds of thousands of &#8220;likes&#8221;:
&#8220;Remember the episode in the Handmaid&#8217;s Tale, where a brain dead, black handmaid is kept on life support long enough to give birth? This is happening in Atlanta, GA right now. Her name is Adriana Smith. She was only 9wks when the state kidnapped her body from her family.&#8221;
Yes, the state &#8220;kidnapped her body from her family,&#8221; according to this post. Of course, they omit any explanation of what actually happened. They don&#8217;t explain that the alternative is to murder the child, either. Instead, we just get a pop culture reference. And this really gets at a larger problem, which is that a large proportion of the population is only capable of engaging in any kind of moral reasoning by using analogies to recent works of fiction.
This is how most Democrats are taught to think. And of course, they dutifully obey. But it&#8217;s not how the leaders of the Democrat Party think. They&#8217;re far more intelligent, and far more evil. And if you listen to them long enough, they&#8217;ll explain exactly what they have in mind for the future of this country. They won&#8217;t simply embrace the so-called &#8220;great replacement&#8221; theory. They&#8217;ll go into great detail, explaining why it&#8217;s bad for Americans to have nuclear families and to believe in Christ. They&#8217;ll also elaborate on why it&#8217;s better for foreigners to come into this country and have large families to replace all of the natives. Here&#8217;s Hillary Clinton to explain:
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We&#8217;ve been having a lot of &#8220;mask off&#8221; moments lately on the Left. This is one of the more revealing ones. Notice what she&#8217;s *not* saying. She&#8217;s not explaining what&#8217;s wrong with Christianity. She&#8217;s also not explaining why it&#8217;s wrong to advocate for stable, two-parent households. Twenty years ago, this would&#8217;ve been an issue that 100% of Americans would agree on. Every single person would&#8217;ve told you that intact, two-parent households are a good thing. But now we have one of the most prominent Democrats in the world stating, as if it&#8217;s obvious to everyone, that it&#8217;s bad to advocate for Christian nuclear families.
And then she immediately reveals exactly what she doesn&#8217;t like about the nuclear family. She wants illegal aliens, whom she calls &#8220;undocumented,&#8221; to &#8220;replenish&#8221; the American population. She wants this country to lose its national identity as quickly as possible. And the nuclear family stands in the way of that. Of course, even if Hillary Clinton really believed that foreign nationals are a net benefit to the American economy &#8212; which they aren&#8217;t &#8212; there&#8217;s still no reason whatsoever for her to advocate *against* stable American families. That part of her argument is completely unexplained. You&#8217;d think she&#8217;d support foreign migration in addition to American families. But she doesn&#8217;t. She only supports the illegal aliens because she knows that, eventually, they will completely replace this country&#8217;s population. And once they do that, every country will be just as dysfunctional as Somalia and Haiti and Venezuela. Food shortages and disease will spread, and millions of people will die. Hillary Clinton knows all of this, and she&#8217;s doing everything in her power &#8212; which is thankfully limited at the moment &#8212; to make it happen.
And that tells you, for at least the third time this week, that Democrats are fundamentally an anti-human party. They reject the idea that human life has any intrinsic value. They also despise Western civilization and see third-world migration as a way to destabilize and destroy it. And anti-natalism is the core plank of this ideology. It&#8217;s evident in the terrorist attack in California. It&#8217;s evident in this deranged effort by a grandmother to unlock the &#8220;option&#8221; of murdering her own grandchild. And it&#8217;s evident if you listen to Hillary Clinton speak for five seconds. This is a worldview that&#8217;s taken hold at every level of the Left. It&#8217;s only sustainable because most people don&#8217;t see what&#8217;s happening. For the sake of the future generations &#8212; generations that these people badly do not want to exist &#8212; it&#8217;s time to start paying attention.

American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic bombing

Leftist Terrorist Blows Up A Fertility Clinic. This Is Part Of A Much Bigger Problem.

Death

Democrats

Hillary Clinton

Matt Walsh

Opinion

People often say, “Never discuss politics in polite company.” But, considering today’s volatile climate, let’s break that rule.
As a Christian who’s been president and CEO of Care Net since 2012, I’ve seen the abortion debate shift dramatically — especially since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade. Many pro-lifers celebrated, thinking we’d won the war.
But did we declare victory too soon?
For decades, the pro-life goal was clear: overturn Roe through the courts. Every January, faithful pro-lifers marched in Washington, D.C., aiming for the right Supreme Court justices to rule in favor of life. Dobbs seemed like the victory we’d fought for — overruling Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, declaring abortion isn’t a “substantive right” rooted in our nation’s history.
But events since then demand we reflect and consider the serious limits of purely political solutions.
The Democratic Party’s position on abortion hasn’t budged since 2012: abortion on demand, anytime, for any reason. It’s their litmus test. Meanwhile, the Republican stance has shifted.
In 2012, with Mitt Romney as their standard-bearer, Republicans opposed all abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or the mother’s life — exceptions that would make 97 percent of abortions illegal. Today, President Donald Trump says abortion should be left to “the will of the people” at the state level. Other Republicans support six- or fifteen-week bans with exceptions, allowing nearly 98% of abortions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 2024 Republican platform no longer affirms the unborn’s “fundamental right to life” or supports a Human Life Amendment, only opposing late-term abortions — less than 2% of cases.
Here’s the inconvenient truth: when you consider the abortion issue based on both parties’ platforms, both parties are essentially pro-choice now — one has no exceptions, the other has some.
The debate isn’t about bans anymore; it’s about abortion availability.
This shift undermines two core pro-life convictions: human life begins at conception and is worthy of protection, and a baby’s value isn’t determined by conception circumstances. A weeks-based approach — negotiating when it’s acceptable to end a life — compromises these convictions. This should be as non-negotiable as saying it’s wrong to kill an innocent outside the womb.
Pro-choice advocates don’t negotiate. Their conviction — bodily autonomy at all costs — supports abortion up to birth. That’s why they fought Mississippi’s fifteen-week ban in Dobbs, even though it seemed they would lose. But our weeks-based strategy fails morally and practically. Morally, it undermines the baby’s personhood. Practically, compromising on conviction doesn’t inspire others to adopt it. I can’t think of a successful movement — religious, political, or social — where this approach worked.
History shows that compromising on conviction rarely inspires change. Look at slavery. Abraham Lincoln called it “wrong, morally and politically” in 1859, yet his 1861 inaugural address avoided abolishing it, focusing on stopping its spread. He compromised.
Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass shared Lincoln’s conviction but refused to negotiate, linking their actions to ending slavery entirely. Douglass’s clarity pushed Lincoln. By 1865, Lincoln couldn’t imagine a union with slavery, seeing the Civil War as God-ordained “woe” for the offense of slavery.
We need that clarity today. A weeks-based framework doesn’t inspire courage in politicians or the culture. Without acting like Douglass, we won’t get a Lincoln. I’m grateful for pro-life Republicans working to support women at risk for abortion, and for Dobbs. But if the national policy tolerates most abortions, those efforts are muted. Indeed, abortions are up since Roe was overturned, more states have loosened their restrictions on abortion than not, and public opinion has shifted in a pro-choice direction.
Politicians face Pontius Pilate’s dilemma when faced with an innocent Jesus: “Should the shouts of a powerful and vocal crowd sway them to sacrifice the innocent?” The politics of abortion don’t change its morality. In 2012, Republicans had a measure of clarity — I hope they regain it, and Democrats find it, because vulnerable lives are at stake.
Culture shapes politics, and religion shapes culture. The 2023 Ohio ballot initiative, making abortion a constitutional right, passed with 57% support in a “pro-life” state. Exit polls showed Catholics and Protestants voted yes at rates mirroring the broader culture. Worse, 54% of women who have abortions profess to be Catholic or Protestant.
If you lose the pews, you lose at the polls.
Roland Warren is president and CEO of <a href="https://care-net.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care Net</a> and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Abortion-Must-Abundant-Life/dp/0997228539/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GE1540HN1QI0&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.puTuVSrDnqiSL-sbmiDzx4VDsjs8IzGvmM7Mkl9eYtz0brcntZs1IqkZV1FRqnk-iIYazXoiCCXWOQiczInm11PwHrpxCuDiyaoQgJaTcK7JJGMCcfGgg-9__tSGOI__WeCVTB0WvHBmW_2ujDtZl2NqDgLfgWZix08DE1eaXEXdATvQAKHncx-DECpW_gYPu24FR7VRHCXSWeBi0pB3HgRuPUuboOcxRjtQMNJudkk.S9JjGheZ3vdBUxf6tNQG9-DWoSHJFrtISKjQg40kSm4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=The+ALternative+to+Abortion&amp;qid=1747317907&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the+alternative+to+abortion%2Cstripbooks%2C113&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Alternative to Abortion: Why We Must Be Pro-Abundant Life</a>.
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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Why Politics Alone Will Never Save the Pro-Life Movement

Dobbs

Republican Party

The mother of a brain-dead woman who is 21-weeks pregnant is upset that her daughter is being kept alive to save the unborn child, a baby boy.
April Newkirk has told the press that her 30-year-old daughter, Adriana Smith, is being kept alive by ventilators, blaming Georgia&#8217;s pro-life law, which bans abortion of unborn babies after six weeks gestation, with some exceptions.
Newkirk says doctors told her she&#8217;s not allowed to take her daughter off the ventilators, so they can protect and save her grandson.
“It should have been left up to the family,” Newkirk said, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-forced-keep-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-alive-rcna207002?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=68264b5179b66e000101d84f&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC News. “I’m not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy, but what I’m saying is, we should have had a choice.&#8221;
It&#8217;s not entirely clear if Georgia&#8217;s abortion law is the reason Smith is being kept alive.
A spokesman for Emory Healthcare, the healthcare system overseeing Smith&#8217;s care, said they use &#8220;consensus from clinical experts, medical literature, and legal guidance to support our providers as they make individualized treatment recommendations in compliance with Georgia’s abortion laws and all other applicable laws.”
“Our top priorities continue to be the safety and wellbeing of the patients we serve,” the spokesperson added.
In Georgia, an unborn child cannot be killed via abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, except in rare cases, like the health of the mother, rape, incest, or some fetal abnormalities.
Back in February, when Smith was nine-weeks pregnant with her second child, she began feeling unwell and suffering severe headaches. She went to a nearby hospital and was given medication. The following day, however, Smith&#8217;s boyfriend says the 30-year-old was gasping for air and making gargling noises when she woke up.
Smith was eventually transferred to Emory University Hospital, and a CT scan showed multiple blood clots in her brain, NBC News noted.
Ventilators have been keeping Smith breathing for months, Newkirk said. “It’s torture for me,” she said. “I see my daughter breathing, but she’s not there.”
Newkirk added that her family is having to incur costs to keep Smith on life-support.
Related: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abortion-panic-misinformation-fear-after-trumps-victory/id1576594336?i=1000677183873" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abortion Panic: Misinformation &amp; Fear After Trump’s Victory</a>

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Controversy Rages As Brain-Dead Woman Kept Alive To Save Unborn Child

Georgia

An elderly pro-life man who was brutally beaten outside of a Baltimore Planned Parenthood says he&#8217;ll keep fighting until his attacker is behind bars, even though the city is “dragging its feet” bringing him justice.
Nearly two years ago Mark Crosby, 75, was beaten alongside 86-year-old Richard Schaefer as they stood outside Planned Parenthood and urged women not to get abortions. Patrick Brice, their 28-year-old attacker, is set to be retried at the end of the month after he dodged a first-degree assault charge in March while being convicted of lesser assault charges. 
“They want us to get hurt again so we go away. But I’m not going away until this guy goes to jail,” Crosby told The Daily Wire. “I’m so prepared, I’m ready for battle, ready to win.”
Brice is set to be retried on May 28 for the first-degree assault charge that he dodged during his trial back in March. Crosby said he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifer-beaten-outside-of-planned-parenthood-surprised-after-no-verdict-on-key-charge">surprised</a> that the previous jury couldn’t come to a consensus because he saw them groaning and looking away while footage of the attack played. 
Footage released by the Baltimore Police Department <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMYSWHJuNM&amp;rco=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> Brice tackling Schaefer into a potted plant after an argument outside Planned Parenthood. As Crosby ran up to assist Schaefer, Brice turned and shoved Crosby to the ground, punching him in the face before standing up and kicking him in the face before walking off. 
Crosby was treated after the attack for a fractured bone in his face, blindness in one eye, head and neck pain, two fractured fingers, and bruising on his arms and legs.
“We also want this [treated as] a hate crime because he ripped off my crucifix which was around my neck, it ended up in the bushes,” Crosby told The Daily Wire. “It was definitely a hate crime also, but these Baltimore City state attorneys are dragging their feet on everything.”
The Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City told The Daily Wire that it does not comment on pending cases when reached for comment on if there were any plans to bring hate crime charges against Brice.
Crosby said that during the first trial, Brice’s lawyer accused the elderly pro-lifers of directing a racial slur at him, which he said helped to get the jury on his side. He said that he wasn’t allowed to respond to those allegations or point out that most of the babies they have saved over the years have been black. 
He also said the judge the first time around didn’t allow him to show his eye to the jurors. This time he said his representative plans to bring an eye doctor and a shock trauma doctor to testify about the extent of his injuries. 
Since the day of attack, Crosby and Schaefer have continued to return to the Planned Parenthood where Crosby says they have had their lives threatened numerous times. He says that he has contacted the police, but they tell him that the threats against him are protected speech.
Now, just days before Brice heads to trial again, Crosby is convinced that there is no &#8220;equal protection under the law in Baltimore City.&#8221;

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Beaten Pro-Lifer Says Baltimore Is ‘Dragging Its Feet’ Bringing Him Justice

Baltimore

More than one in 20 women need a second abortion attempt after the abortion pill fails, a new analysis of insurance claim data shows.
Over 5% of women had to undergo a repeat abortion attempt within 45 days of taking mifepristone, indicating that the first mifepristone abortion attempt failed, <a href="https://eppc.org/publication/the-abortion-pill-harms-womeninsurance-data-reveals-repeated-abortionattempts-due-to-high-failure-rate/">according to an analysis</a> from the Ethics and Public Policy Center released Monday. The Center analyzed insurance claims data from 865,727 mifepristone abortions between 2017 and 2023.
A total of 45,498 women needed a second abortion attempt to complete their abortions after mifepristone failed, the data show. Of those women, 24,563 needed a surgical abortion procedure. Nearly 7,000 women underwent both a second medication abortion attempt and a surgical abortion attempt after their first mifepristone attempt failed, the analysis found.
This is the latest evidence that advocates have misconstrued the safety and efficacy of the abortion pill. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-pill-22-times-more-dangerous-than-fda-claimed-new-study-says?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Abortion+Pill+22+Times+More+Dangerous+Than+FDA+Claimed%2C+New+Study+Says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> released last month found that more than one in 10 women experienced a “serious adverse event” after taking the mifepristone abortion pill in 2023. This can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis.
That is about 22 times higher than what the FDA listed on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023. The FDA <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered “serious adverse reactions” to mifepristone.
The two-pill chemical abortion regimen — mifepristone, usually followed by misoprostol — aims to end the life of the unborn baby and expel it from the woman’s uterus. However, the drugs sometimes fail to expel all the fetal tissue, which can cause life-threatening complications.
Nearly 14% of women experience either a serious adverse event or repeat abortion attempt after taking the abortion pill, Monday&#8217;s analysis found. The report&#8217;s authors concluded that the FDA should immediately reinstate the stronger patient safety protocols it previously had in place for mifepristone.
A few months before Roe v. Wade was overturned, the FDA scrapped the requirement that women must obtain abortion pills in person from a healthcare provider, allowing them to obtain them online through the mail.
The FDA should also mandate reporting of the abortion pill&#8217;s side effects and &#8220;reconsider its approval altogether,&#8221; concluded the analysis&#8217; co-authors, Ryan Anderson, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Jamie Bryan Hall, the Center&#8217;s Director of Data Analysis.
&#8220;Our real-world data represents the actual experiences of women who take the abortion pill in the U.S. today,&#8221; the authors told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;These women may have preexisting health conditions and may not receive proper care before, during, or after the abortion. The women recruited into the clinical trials were relatively young and healthy, and they received a carefully controlled regimen of care. Frequent in-person visits would have enabled doctors to diagnose and treat any side effects earlier, before they could become serious. This is how it should be for every woman!&#8221; they said.
&#8220;This is why it&#8217;s so important for the FDA, at a minimum, to reinstate its original safety protocols, which more closely resemble the conditions of a clinical trial,&#8221; the authors said. &#8220;Both proponents and opponents of legalized abortion should be able to support this move to protect women&#8217;s health.&#8221;
Anderson and Hall also emphasized that pro-life laws are not to blame for complications from the abortion pill, as some abortion advocates have claimed.
&#8220;Those who blame the failures of the abortion pill on pro-life laws are deeply mistaken, if not downright dishonest. Every woman should seek medical care in an emergency, and every doctor should provide life-saving care without fear of reprisal,&#8221; they said.
Medication abortions are far more common than surgical abortions. Medication abortions made up 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 31% in 2014, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/medication-abortion-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.
The abortion pill is likely the main factor driving up the country’s total number of abortions in recent years, even in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Abortion advocates have argued that the abortion pill should be more available to order online now that some Republican-led states ban abortion.
Mifepristone was originally approved by the FDA in 2000.

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The abortion pill is many times more dangerous than the FDA claimed, with more than one in 10 women suffering serious complications, a new study found.
About 11.2% of 154,554 women experienced a &#8220;serious adverse event&#8221; after taking the mifepristone abortion pill in 2023, according to new <a href="https://www.ffroa.com/chemical-abortion-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> commissioned by the Foundation for the Restoration of America and released Monday.
That works out to about 17,310 women who suffered serious adverse events, which can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis.
This is about 22 times higher than what the FDA put on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023 — the FDA <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered &#8220;serious adverse reactions&#8221; to mifepristone.
The two-pill chemical abortion regimen, mifepristone usually followed by misoprostol, aims to end the life of the unborn baby and expel it from the woman&#8217;s uterus. However, the drugs sometimes fail to expel all the fetal tissue, which can cause life-threatening complications.
&#8220;This drastic difference between the disclosed risk and the actual risk to patients undermines informed consent and endangers the lives of pregnant women,&#8221; the researchers wrote, adding that policymakers and regulators should take action.
&#8220;This is much different than the lie that women have been told that these drugs are safer than Tylenol,&#8221; Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OBGYN who has been in practice for two decades, told The Daily Wire.
Plus, the research only analyzed data from insurance claims for government insurance like Medicare and Medicaid between 2017 and 2023, so the total number of women who suffered serious complications is likely even higher.
Over those six years, the number of chemical abortions jumped dramatically from less than 100,000 to over 150,000 a year, likely due to the drug&#8217;s increased availability online, the insurance claims data show.
Medication abortions are far more common than surgical abortions. Medication abortions made up 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 31% in 2014, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/medication-abortion-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.
The abortion pill is likely the main factor driving up the country&#8217;s total number of abortions in recent years, even in the wake of the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Abortion advocates have argued that the abortion pill should be more available to order online now that some Republican-led states ban abortion.
A few months before Roe vs. Wade was overturned, the FDA scrapped the requirement that women must obtain abortion pills in person from a health provider, allowing them to obtain them online through the mail.
Afterward, Francis, the pro-life OBGYN, said one emergency doctor pulled her aside and asked, &#8220;What has changed because we&#8217;re seeing so many more women come in with these complications.&#8221;
Mifepristone was originally approved by the FDA in 2000.
&#8220;This bombshell report is further evidence that our government uses phony data and politicized science to lie to its people. In this case, those lies further political ideologies rather than the health, safety, and well-being of women and children,&#8221; Doug Truax, founder of the Foundation for the Restoration of America, which commissioned the study, told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;If you had any other drug that was kind of similar in terms of the magnitude of what this thing does, anywhere north of 2% and they&#8217;d shut it down,&#8221; Truax said. 
&#8220;They&#8217;re just hell bent on just increasing the amount of abortions.&#8221;

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