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WASHINGTON, DC, June 13, 2024 – Chelsey Youman, National Director of Public Policy for Human Coalition, on Thursday, June 13 issued the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled challengers to the FDA authorizing mail-order abortion drugs do not have standing:
“It is a travesty that the FDA will not be held accountable for the numerous ways that abortion drugs harm women and kill children. But so long as abortion continues to ravage our country and vulnerable women need our help, we will not rest as we continue to love them, serve them, and show them the devastating truth about abortion.
“Every day, our pregnancy centers and partner pregnancy centers tend to the walking wounded, including women who are confused because they have been misled or misinformed about the harms of abortion drugs. Women call our clinics panicking in the middle of their chemical abortions, or having already suffered the physical and emotional trauma of seeing their aborted child. These women are the living scars of abortion in our society; we will never stop speaking up for them.
“Furthermore, the Comstock Act prohibits mailing abortifacients and remains in effect despite the FDA’s illegal mail-order abortion pill scheme. We call on all states to uphold this law by cracking down on the smugglers of these deadly drugs. It took 50 years to overturn Roe in this country, and the pro-life movement is poised to continue the fight to end the scourge of abortion drugs. Women and their children deserve care, not the violence of abortion.”
In the case of Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, pro-life doctors and medical organizations challenged the Biden administration’s removal of abortion drug safety regulations – including its allowance of mail-order abortion drugs.
In a joint friend-of-the-court brief filed at the Supreme Court, Human Coalition, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) argue that women are hurt by the FDA’s recklessness, as the agency’s label for mifepristone reports a 1-in-25 hospitalization rate for chemical abortion. Their brief includes the heart wrenching stories of Human Coalition clients who suffered serious and life-threatening complications from the abortion pill.
In a recent survey of likely voters in swing states of Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, nearly eight-in-ten respondents (78%) said that “Women and girls should have the ongoing care of a doctor when taking high-risk drugs.” The FDA in 2016 waived the requirement that abortion pills be prescribed and administered by a physician.
In the survey, three-fourths of respondents also said that “No young girl should have an abortion all alone, without medical assistance or even an in-person visit with a doctor.” The FDA in 2016 waived the requirement for an in-person follow-up appointment, and in 2021 did away with the requirement that the pills be dispensed in-person.
About Human Coalition
Human Coalition is one of the largest pro-life, pro-woman, and pro-family organizations in the country, committed to making abortion unthinkable and unnecessary. Founded in 2009, Human Coalition has grown from a simple internet outreach idea into a comprehensive care network that reaches women facing unexpected pregnancies, rescues innocent preborn children from abortion, and restores families to stability.