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Jor-El Godsey, opinion contributor


NextImg:The FDA’s reckless policy is fueling abortion abuse

Pro-life advocates have been warning for years that the abortion pill, stripped of safeguards, would be weaponized against women. Sadly, these warnings have been proven correct — over and over again.

When the FDA leadership under Barack Obama and later Joe Biden dismantled in-person safeguards for the abortion pill Mifepristone, it did more than change a regulatory policy. It opened the floodgates for abuse — and women are paying the price.

In Texas, a woman was eight weeks pregnant with her daughter. She made it crystal clear she wanted her child. The baby’s father ordered abortion drugs online — prescribed in his name — then mixed them into her drink. Within 30 minutes, she was hemorrhaging. In that moment, he abandoned her, leaving her to endure the painful experience alone. By the time she reached the hospital, her baby was gone.

In Houston, Catherine Herring says her husband tried multiple times to poison her drinks with abortion drugs, leading to a premature birth and lasting health issues for her daughter. He was found guilty earlier this year and sentenced to jail and probation. When Catherine realized what was happening, she called the Abortion Pill Rescue Network managed by Heartbeat International, hoping to reverse the effects and save her child. Unfortunately, that call came too late to stop the damage, but it underscores a reality that the pregnancy help movement knows all too well — we are the ones picking up the pieces the abortion industry leaves behind.

In another Texas case, Department of Justice employee Justin Anthony Banta was charged with capital murder after allegedly spiking his pregnant girlfriend’s coffee with abortion pills the same day she learned her baby was healthy. She miscarried within 48 hours.

Abortion coercion isn’t limited to Texas or even to the use of the abortion pill. In Virginia, two minors reported that school officials had arranged abortions for them without their parents’ knowledge. One said she felt pressured — coerced into ending her pregnancy.

These are not isolated incidents. They are part of a disturbing pattern enabled by the FDA’s abortion activism to strip away the agency’s risk evaluation and mitigation strategy for mifepristone.

Before the Obama and Biden rollbacks, this strategy had ensured that the drugs were dispensed in person by certified providers; that the women’s identity and consent had been verified; that gestational age and pregnancy location were confirmed; and that informed-consent counseling was provided.

Today, without those safeguards, abortion drugs can be ordered online, shipped across state lines, and fed to anyone — no medical oversight, no identity check, and no confirmation of consent. That’s not “access.” It is reckless endangerment. Common sense regulation is not about limiting legal abortion, but about ensuring abortion is never used as a weapon.

The pregnancy help movement has been standing in the gap during the proliferation of chemical abortion, warning that this kind of abuse would come — and stepping in when it does.

Abortion pills, even with safeguards, remain dangerous. But abortion pills in the wrong hands have become insidious tools of control, coercion, and criminal violence. And we know, because when the worst happens, women come to us for help to reverse unwanted chemical abortions and, in a clinical setting, to see the life inside them via ultrasound. Many are looking for healing, hope and relief from the implications of an abortion they never wanted or asked for in the first place.

Restoring the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy will protect women from being drugged without their knowledge. It will shield minors from secret procedures and ensure that every abortion is a decision made by the woman herself, not pushed upon her by someone else.

The FDA has the authority and the moral obligation at least to reinstate these common-sense protections now. Every day it does not, the door is left wide open for the next woman to be victimized.

Jor-El Godsey is president of Heartbeat International.