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woes. Those laws protected abortion- ists in blue states from outside pros- ecution, leaving them free to mail out the abortion drug mifepristone to vir- tually anyone who called up to request it — even if they lived in one of the 13 states that declared abortion illegal. And with that, just a year after the
pro-life community’s most conse- quential Supreme Court victory ever, obtaining an abortion in the United States was on the verge of becoming as routine as ordering a pizza. Today, analysts at the Guttmacher
Institute estimate that 63% of all U.S. abortions now occur via the abortion pill. And many pro-life figures are questioning the Trump administra- tion’s response.
Dr. William Lile, an instructor with
both the University of Florida and Florida State Medical School OB-GYN residency programs, tells Newsmax “the availability and accessibility of the abortion pill” accounts for the increase in abortions post-Dobbs. “If your daughter or your grand-
daughter has a cellphone,” he explains, “she has access to the abortion pill. And that’s in all 50 states.” As reflected on his ProLifeDoc.
org website, Lile devotes a lot of time documenting scientific evidence to support his view that “preborn” chil- dren in the womb are just as much his patients as are their mothers. Lile explains, “We diagnose, treat,
and cure babies in the womb routine- ly. We are doing blood transfusions to babies in the womb as early as 15 weeks after conception.”
ADVERSE EVENTS Lile’s insistence that preborn babies are actually patients whose lives he is fight- ing to save has given him a unique per- spective on states that not only allow abortion up to the moment of birth, but also shield doctors who mail out abor- tion drugs nationwide — even to states that forbid abortion except when neces- sary to protect the life of the mother. “The abortion pill is really attack- ing and killing my patients, and it’s
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dangerous,” Lile says. “It’s not only dangerous for babies
— and these are babies that have beat- ing hearts, fingers, fingerprints, toes, toe prints, they’re moving around on the inside — and it will abort them, kill them 98% of time. But it’s also danger- ous for moms.” Lile cites a 2025 study reflecting
a 10.93% rate of serious adverse events — heavy bleeding, intense cramping, nausea, diarrhea, fever, and worse — within 45 days of taking the abortion drug. That would be 22 times the adverse
incident rate claimed by abortion drug advocates, which is half of 1%. The Guttmacher Institute, initially
founded as part of Planned Parent- hood before being spun off in 2007, dismisses that study as “junk science.” It’s no accident that the abortion
drug’s risks are under a microscope. Lile, Perkins, Dannenfelser, and other pro-life leaders had hoped the FDA under Trump would kick off his second term by banning the mail- order distribution of mifepristone. And by all accounts, the Trump administration has an avenue to do so based on an anti-vice law first passed in 1873 called the Comstock Act. That act specifically bans the mailing of items used to produce abortions. In December 2022, however,
Biden’s Department of Justice issued an opinion that the Comstock Act restrictions were only relevant when the sender intended for the drug to be used for an illegal abortion. Because the intent of the senders
could not be determined, however, it concluded the act would not apply to the mass delivery of abortion drugs by mail. The Trump administration, rather
than simply issue a new interpreta- tion of the Comstock Act that would restrict the nationwide distribution of abortion drugs by mail, announced that the FDA would launch a compre- hensive study of the abortion drug’s health risks. In June, the FDA announced this
study is underway, but added that it would take another six months to complete. Some in the pro-life com- munity suspect it’s no accident that conveniently pushes any action on the controversial issue well past the November elections. Kristan Hawkins, president of Stu-
dents for Life of America, an organi- zation that has over 1,500 chapters nationwide, tells Newsmax, “It would merely take one memo today to stop the illegal shipping of chemical abor- tion drugs into pro-life states.”
INTIMIDATION TACTICS Pro-lifers looking for a reason to sup- port conservative candidates experi- enced yet another discouraging set- back on July 4. Independence Day not only marked the 250th anniversary of America, it also signaled the end of the One Big Beautiful Bill’s 12-month ban on federal funding for their biggest opponent, Planned Parenthood. To pro-life forces, letting Planned Parenthood once again feed at the federal trough was a huge unforced error. Hawkins and others had argued that Planned Parenthood should be debarred from receiving any further federal funding, based on objections raised by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and others. Paul charged the Paycheck Protec-
tion Program loans that the organi- zation’s affiliates had obtained dur- ing the coronavirus pandemic were improperly acquired. Planned Parenthood officials have
rejected that allegation as “politically motivated intimidation tactics.” The Trump administration made no fur- ther attempt to block future federal funding for the organization, once the one-year pause that was part of the OBBB expired. “They failed to defund one of
their largest political enemies,” says Hawkins, who adds that Planned Parenthood’s political operatives will now be actively involved in influencing the outcome of the mid- term elections.
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