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Pro-Life Groups Raise Alarm Over Delayed FDA Review of Abortion Pill Safety

Pro-life organizations and advocates called for the FDA Commissioner to be fired this week over the failure of FDA health officials to review abortion pill safety.

The abortion pill is a two-step process. The first pill, mifepristone, prohibits a baby’s further development and eventually starves it. The second pill, misoprostol, expels the baby from the mother’s body.

As reported by the Daily Citizen, in May, the Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study revealing nearly 11% of women who take the pill experience serious adverse effects, including sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection, and emergency room visits.

That is 22 times higher than the FDA’s current label, which suggests the rate of adverse effects is only 0.5%.

When Senator Josh Hawley addressed the study with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy at a senate hearing later that month, Secretary Kennedy acknowledged the data was “alarming” and pledged HHS would perform a “complete review” of mifepristone.

Since May, the FDA has not completed a review of mifepristone, and instead approved a generic version of the drug at the end of September.

In a post on X, Senator Hawley called the approval “shocking.” He declared:

I have lost confidence in the leadership at the FDA. [The] FDA had promised to do a top-to-bottom safety review of the chemical abortion drug, but instead, they’ve just greenlighted new versions of it for distribution.

Now, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America claims FDA leadership intentionally slow-walked the promised review of mifepristone and is calling for the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to be fired.

Senator Hawley recently released his letter to the FDA Commissioner, calling on the agency to stop stonewalling the review and reinstate the mifepristone safety protocols instated during the first Trump Administration.

Live Action’s President Lila Rose called on the FDA to act immediately to protect children and mothers from mifepristone.

To date, the White House and Department of Health and Human Services deny slow-walking the review and maintain it simply takes time.

For now, mifepristone and its generic counterpart remain available to the public under existing FDA authority, and no leadership changes have been announced. But there is growing pressure for the FDA to complete the promised safety review.

Some women, after taking the first abortion pill (mifepristone), come to regret their decision. Thankfully, there is a way to reverse the pill’s effects if prompt action is taken.

To learn more about the abortion pill reversal protocol, visit abortionpillreversal.com or call 1-877-558-0333 to be connected with a medical professional who can guide callers through the process of reversing the pill’s effects.

Additionally, if you’re struggling and need a listening ear, Focus on the Family offers a free, one-time counseling consultation with a licensed or pastoral counselor. To request a counseling consultation, call 1-855-771-HELP (4357) or fill out our Counseling Consultation Request Form.

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New Federal Legislation Aims to Protect Conscience Rights in Medical Education

In November, the Senate and the House introduced legislation to protect the conscience rights of medical students, who object to abortion on moral or religious grounds. 

The measures, S. 3238 and H.R. 6219, are companion bills that were developed simultaneously and introduced on the same day, November 20, 2025.

If passed, the bills require residency programs that receive federal funding through Medicare to make participation in abortions an opt-in program rather than an opt-out program.

Currently, residents have the option to opt-out, but it can often mean unethical pressure to participate in abortion training or professional stigma and concern that it will compromise career options.

By changing the system from an opt-out to an opt-in, there isn’t an implied requirement for all medical students to participate in abortions, abortion counseling or abortion referrals.

The bill simply uses federal requirements as leverage to change the way medical schools manage abortion education for students. In order to keep federal funding, participation in abortion “education” must be voluntary and the school cannot discriminate against students who chose not to participate.

A coalition of pro-life organizations are supporting the legislation, including SBA Pro-Life America, Americans United for Life, National Right to Life, March for Life, Heartbeat International, Alliance Defending Freedom, Students for Life Action, Ethics and Religious Liberty Coalition, Live Action, Heritage Action, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, Liberty Counsel, Liberty Counsel Action, Family Research Council, and AAPLOG Action.

In a press release, Senator Lankford, the primary Senate sponsor of the legislation, said, “Medical residents should never be pressured to violate their beliefs in order to finish their training or advance in their career.”

Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D, the primary sponsor in the House of Representatives, said:

Opting out of such training enables potential retaliation by faculty who have enormous power over residents and their future success. This issue is about restoring a non-ideological educational environment where individuals do not fear expressing moral or religious objections.

Focus on the Family applauds these commonsense measures. No one should feel compelled or coerced to participate in an abortion in violation of their conscience.

Pro-life friends, you can help protect the conscience rights of pro-life doctors in training by contacting your senators and representatives today and urging them to support S. 3238 and H.R. 6219, the Conscience Protections for Medical Residents Act. You can either call their offices directly through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121, or you can use the Senate website directory or the House website directory.

Thank you for being a voice for reason and commonsense in policy making. Let’s protect the right to object to abortion on moral and religious grounds without being targeted for discrimination.

The Telephone Used to Save Lives. Now It Takes Them.

When Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first patent for the telephone in 1876, most people saw the invention as a triumph of mankind’s longtime challenge to communicate nearly instantaneously over long distances.

First through telegraph and then telephone, the first devices were primarily used by post offices, railroads, stock exchanges, newspapers and the wealthy – all to relay time-sensitive and urgent information.

The telephone was also used to save lives – mainly to call doctors and hospitals seeking help for sick or distressed patients.

Tragically, telecommunication technology is now being used to help facilitate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of pre-born children every year. From Tuesday’s New York Times:

Last year, one out of four abortions nationwide was provided via telehealth, compared to 5 percent before 2022, according to WeCount, a study led by the Society of Family Planning. And in states where abortion was totally banned, 99 percent of abortions were provided by telehealth.
“The reality is people are getting abortions, people are providing abortions, and the post-Dobbs environment is not stopping them,” said David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University who co-wrote the book “After Dobbs.”

Despite bans or restrictions on abortion in upwards of 20 states, doctors in abortion-friendly states are mailing deadly drugs to patients, who then self-administer the toxic cocktail.

A new law in Texas now bans this practice. HB7, which went into effect last week, permits Texas citizens to sue abortion pill distributors for at least $100,000 per violation.

Predictably, abortion advocates are criticizing the legislation, calling it an intimidation tactic against doctors and a pseudo spy campaign that incentivizes private citizens to pry into people’s private lives.

Texas joins seven other states either banning the mailing of abortion pills or telehealth abortion: Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia.

Radical abortion enthusiasts have polished and perfected their talking points. Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, who is a professor and a public health scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, uses soft words to describe the hard truth about what’s at stake.

“All of this legislation will never take away from the fact that women will continue to need abortion care, and continue to get abortion care,” she says.

Merriam-Webster defines “health care” as “efforts made to maintain, restore, or promote someone’s physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially when performed by trained and licensed professionals.”

“Abortion care” is a term that’s been widely adopted – and widely abused. There is no such thing. Abortion isn’t a form of “care.” It doesn’t maintain, restore or promote anything – it destroys and decimates innocent life and inflicts long-term psychological damage on the mother.

The zealots wanting to allow the unfettered killing of preborn children are right that pro-life advocates have declared war on telehealth abortion. That’s because it not only destroys innocent life but also threatens the health and life of the mothers who often blindly ingest the toxic pills thinking they’re the equivalent of taking an aspirin.

Telecommunication isn’t the first invention to be coopted for evil purposes. Going back to fire itself, the broken and sinful have regularly misused and abused all types of discoveries and inventions. Telehealth allows those either unable to leave their homes or those without access to adequate medical care get the help they need. Legislators are wise to wrestle back control of it from those committed to corrupting and leveraging it for evil purposes like abortion.

Court Overrules District Judge, Allows Planned Parenthood Defunding to Continue

A federal appeals court has stayed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling that had ordered the Trump administration to keep funding Big Abortion organizations, including Planned Parenthood, in violation of federal law.

A panel of judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Trump administration an administrative stay on Monday, December 8, putting on hold Judge Talwani’s Dec. 2 preliminary injunction ordering the Trump administration to continue funding Planned Parenthood in 23 states.

On July 29, the states, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts seeking to prevent enforcement of Section 71113 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) which Congress passed and the president signed into law on July 4.

The challenged provision prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from going to any “prohibited entity” that provides abortions and received over $800,000 in Medicaid funding in 2023. The provision lasts for one year.

On Dec. 2, Judge Talwani sided with the states and blocked enforcement of the provision in the states that are plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The judge said the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their claim that Section 71113 “fails to provide states with clear notice, in violation of the Spending Clause,” and is “impermissibly ambiguous” about what organizations qualify as “prohibited entities.” The judge said the law constitutes an “unconstitutional retroactive condition on [the states’] participation” in Medicaid, Reuters summarizes.

Judge Talwani granted a seven-day administrative stay from her ruling.

Following the ruling, the Trump administration promptly appealed to the 1st Circuit, requesting a stay pending appeal and an immediate extension of the administrative stay.

The administration reminded the appeals court that Judge Talwani had originally blocked the defunding of Planned Parenthood in every state in a separate lawsuit filed by the abortion giant, before the 1st Circuit stayed that ruling.

“Undaunted, the same district court has again enjoined enforcement of Section 71113, concluding this time that Congress had not made clear which entities were covered by the funding prohibition,” the Trump administration told the court in a filing on December 8.

“Defendants respectfully request a stay pending appeal and an immediate extension of the administrative stay to prevent any interruption in the applicability of a duly enacted Act of Congress that this Court has already once acted to leave in effect.”

On Dec. 8, the 1st Circuit granted the administration’s request for an extension of the administrative stay and said it would rule on its request for a stay pending appeal “promptly,” which would allow the Trump administration to continue to enforce the defund provision while the case proceeds.

The decision was made by three judges on the 1st Circuit, including Chief Judge David Barron, a nominee of former President Barack Obama; and Judges Gustavo Gelpí and Lara Montecalvo, both nominees of former President Joe Biden.

In 2024, Planned Parenthood earned over $2 billion in revenue by killing a record 402,200 babies by abortion that year alone, its most recent annual report shows.

The abortion giant has increased the number of abortions it performs by 23% since 2013. At the same time, Planned Parenthood has provided:

  • 10% fewer services
  • 54% fewer cancer screening and prevention services
  • 61% fewer breast exams
  • 54% fewer pap tests
  • 63% fewer prenatal services

Planned Parenthood earned a profit of $206 million in the last two years alone by performing more abortions but fewer real healthcare services.

“The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is federal law passed by Congress and signed by the president,” said SBA List Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser in a statement after Judge Talwani’s Dec. 2 ruling.

“Planned Parenthood’s more than 40 closures this year are a reflection not only of taxpayers finally having their voice heard, but also their failing business model that prioritizes abortion, politics and profits at the expense of women and children.”

The Daily Citizen will keep you updated on this case as it moves forward.

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Nearly 50 Planned Parenthood Clinics Closed This Year

In a new report released by Planned Parenthood, the organization admits that nearly 50 of its clinics have been forced to close this year due to the valiant efforts made at the federal level to defund Big Abortion organizations, including an end to federal funding streams such as Title X grants and Medicaid reimbursements. Planned Parenthood estimates as many as 200 of its clinics could close if funding losses persist.

For the pro-life community, these closures represent a significant and meaningful victory. Each shuttered facility marks a turning point away from abortion centered services and towards life-affirming support for women and families.

These developments should be celebrated not only as policy successes but also for the lives that will be saved from the tragedy of abortion.

The truth is that pregnancy resource centers are leading the way in offering support that empowers women rather than pressures them to get an abortion.

Across America, these centers provide nearly 2 million people each year with free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, baby supplies, parenting classes, counseling, job assistance and mentorship.

As reported by the Daily Citizen, there are approximately 2,750 pregnancy resource centers nationwide providing nearly $368 million in free services to clients every year.

The work of pregnancy resource centers is rooted in compassion, not in profit. Unlike abortion clinics, pregnancy resource centers walk alongside women long after birth, helping them grow as women and mothers.

Option Ultrasound

This year, Focus on the Family celebrated a significant milestone: 20 years of saving lives through Option Ultrasound.

This program provides pregnancy resource centers with grants covering 80% of the cost of ultrasound machines. The vision behind this initiative is simple but profound. When women are empowered with information and the opportunity to see life in the womb, they are far more likely to choose life.

Our program also helps pregnancy resource centers extend their hours to reach even more women in need of help; funds nurses’ sonography training; and helps direct women in need to pregnancy centers through My Choice Network.

Since its launch in 2004, Option Ultrasound has saved over 500,000 babies and 500,000 mothers from the devastation of abortion.

More than 2,300 grants for ultrasound equipment and nurse training have been awarded through the program, and the results are extraordinary. More than 54% of women who are considering abortion choose life after receiving counseling and an ultrasound.

As abortion facilities decline and life-affirming ministries expand, we are witnessing a new chapter in the pro-life movement defined not merely by policy but by a culture of love, service and sustainable support for families.

Together, through prayer, advocacy, generosity and steadfast commitment, we are building a future where every mother knows she is supported in choosing life.

Just $60 will save a life through Option Ultrasound. Will you partner with us to save a life from abortion here?

If you are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and want to learn more about your options, you can visit My Choice Network here.

When you need someone to talk to about your baby, or whatever else you’re going through, we’re here. Please reach out. 1-800-A-FAMILY.

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