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May 18 2026

Abortion Industry Promotes New, Dangerous Chemical Abortion Regimen

Pro-abortion organizations are touting a dangerous, unproven chemical abortion regimen to stymie potential regulations on the abortion drug mifepristone.

An FDA-approved chemical abortion requires two pills. The first, mifepristone, kills the baby by starving him or her of progesterone, which is critical for embryonic development. The second, misoprostol, induces labor, helping the mother pass her deceased child and the remaining products of her pregnancy.

“Mifepristone alone has a 13 to 23% abortion ‘failure’ rate, which can mean both an on-going pregnancy or an incomplete abortion where not all tissue passes,” Dr. Catherine Wheeler, an OBGYN and member of Focus on the Family’s Physician Resource Council, told the Daily Citizen. “Misoprostol alone has a 20 to 40% failure rate.”

But the Society of Family Planning, National Abortion Federation and World Health Organization are among several pro-abortion groups telling women misoprostol-only abortions are safe.

In a memo titled, “Science Says Misoprostol Only is Safe and Effective,” the Society of Family Planning claims, “Medical guidance in the US and around the globe supports the use of misoprostol only for abortion throughout pregnancy.”

Misoprostol is “widely available, inexpensive and easy to administer,” the memo continues, and particularly appropriate for women in places where “mifepristone is not legally available or is inaccessible.”

This is an interesting fact to include in a document boasting a supposedly safe and efficacious treatment. Why would misoprostol-only abortions be a better choice for women who can’t access mifepristone?

Because misoprostol-only abortions are significantly more dangerous than chemical abortions — which are plenty dangerous themselves.

An analysis of insurance claims from nearly 866,000 chemical abortions by the Ethics and Public Policy Center found nearly 11% of women experienced a severe or life-threatening adverse events within 45 days of taking a mifepristone/misoprostol combo.

The likelihood of experiencing severe complications increases significantly when women initiate a traditional chemical abortion in the second trimester.

But data compiled by the Lozier Institute indicates misoprostol-only abortions are even riskier. Nearly 25% of women who initiated misoprostol-only abortions experienced incomplete abortions requiring surgery, compared to nearly 20% of those who initiated traditional chemical abortions in the second trimester.

More than 15% of the women who went through misoprostol-only abortions experienced hemorrhage, compared to just under 12% of the women who went through chemical abortion in the second trimester.

More than 9% of women required readmission to the hospital after a misoprostol-only abortion, compared to fewer than 7% of women who went through chemical abortions in the second trimester.

Misoprostol-only abortions also cause horrifying consequences for growing babies.

Unlike traditional chemical abortions, misoprostol-only abortions do not end the child’s life before he or she is violently expelled from the womb.

Many children still die in this process. Others — up to 9%, according to a review of studies conducted by pro-abortion scientists — survive. But misoprostol causes devastating birth defects when strong contractions cut off the developing baby’s blood supply, including:

Skull defects
Bladder development problems leading to incontinence
Stiff joints and undeveloped, rigid muscles
Cranial palsies
Facial nerve malformations
Failure to develop arms and legs
Drooping face

Misoprostol-only abortions can also facilitate late-term abortions, OBGYN Dr. Bill Lile, another member of Focus on the Family’s Physician Resource Council, told the Daily Citizen.

“Misoprostol alone is used to kill babies at higher gestational ages because, by week 12, the primary progesterone production increases dramatically,” Dr. Lile explained.

“This increase dramatically decreases the effectiveness of mifepristone [and] the abortion protocol shifts from blocking support of the early pregnancy to severe uterine contractions to force a pre-viable baby out of the uterus.”

At more than 22 weeks gestation, Dr. Lile told us, abortionists will often kill the baby to “prevent ‘physician and patient discomfort.’” The infant will either experience a heart attack following a fatal injection or bleed out after being stabbed in the spine.

Misoprostol-only abortions do nothing but harm mothers and children. But the abortion industry has every incentive to promote their use.

Cutting out mifepristone makes chemical abortion pills cheaper to make and ship. Misoprostol is also used to treat stomach ulcers, a legitimate medical use which makes the drug more difficult to regulate under the Comstock Act — a law prohibiting the interstate mailing of materials which cause abortion.

Importantly, organizations like the Society of Family Planning did not declare misoprostol-only abortions safe after any dramatic change in the data. They declared them safe when they feared mifepristone access could be regulated.

“The abortion industry is so committed to increasing abortion that they minimize these high risks in order to advance abortion access and ‘self-managed abortion,’” Dr. Wheeler sums up.

It fits with what we know of the abortion industry, which pursues profit to the exclusion of every moral good.

“Time and time again, the argument from the pro-abortion side is that access trumps safety,” Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins told the Daily Citizen earlier this month.

“It’s horrific.”

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Federal Government Makes Abortion Pill Widely Available, Okays Mail Orders Despite Law Prohibiting Them

Shield Laws Enable Chemical Abortion in Pro-Life States

Shield Law Abortion Providers Advertised Alongside Black Market Abortion Pills

#AbortionChangesYou: A Case Study to Understand the Communicative Tensions in Women’s Medication Abortion Narratives (Health Communication)

New Abortion Pill Study Confirms Danger to Mothers

The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event (Ethics and Public Policy Center)

May 08 2026

Kristan Hawkins Lobbies Feds to Enforce Comstock Act

The Supreme Court this week temporarily allowed women to obtain chemical abortion pills remotely while it considers Louisiana’s case against the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone.

Behind closed doors, Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins lobbied the Department of Justice (DOJ) to shut down the mail-order abortion industry altogether by enforcing the Comstock Act.

“All it would take is for the Trump DOJ to issue a memo and say, ‘We’re going to enforce the law.’” Hawkins told the Daily Citizen.

“That, overnight, would end this wild, wild west of abortion we are currently facing in our country.”

When the FDA began allowing physicians to prescribe the chemical abortion pill mifepristone remotely without “adequately studying” the safety of such a step, the agency birthed a massive, unregulated, interstate drug market.

“Any person — sex abuser, human trafficker, a man, a minor, a girl who has a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy — can go online to a couple of websites and order chemical abortion pills within two minutes,” said Hawkins. “It doesn’t matter what state she’s in.”

There’s no guarantee the pills these women receive contain mifepristone and misoprostol, the second chemical in the abortion cocktail which sends women into labor.

“It’s a problem [abortionists] are having in their own industry,” she explained. “There’s zero accuracy to make sure the pills women are getting are even abortion pills and not placebos.”

The federal government doesn’t need to pass a law to take on the wildly exploitative chemical abortion industry. It’s already illegal under the Comstock Act.

The act, which Congress passed in 1873, prohibits the interstate transportation of “obscene or crime-inciting” materials, including every “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” used to facilitate or perform abortion.

Thus far, however, the DOJ has refused to enforce Comstock.

Under the Biden administration, the department issued an opinion finding the law did not apply to interstate shipments of chemical abortion pills.

The tortured take relies on judicial interpretations of Comstock from the early twentieth century which determined violators must knowingly send “obscene or crime-inciting” materials to perform, not just any abortions, but unlawful abortions.

Of course, at the time of Comstock’s creation, virtually all abortions were unlawful. The DOJ apparently did not consider this fact when, in December 2022, it determined that Comstock did not apply to chemical abortion pills because abortionists could intend the pills be used in lawful abortions.

With the stroke of a pen, the current DOJ could rescind this memo and begin enforcing the act, effectively banning the sale of mifepristone and misoprostol across state lines.

“A simple memo tomorrow from the DOJ could save hundreds of thousands of lives,” Hawkins emphasized. “That’s all we’re asking for.”

Enforcing the Comstock Act wouldn’t just score the Trump administration a win with the pro-life community, Hawkins told DOJ officials. It would support the president’s belief that abortion policy should be determined by the states.

“Even while I disagree with the president on that fact,” Hawkins told the Daily Citizen, noting “terrible, tragic things” happen when leaders allow human rights to begin and end at state lines, “if he truly believes [abortion] to be a state’s rights issue, the solution is to get the federal government completely out of abortion.”

That, she elaborated, requires two things: Extending the defunding of Planned Parenthood and enforcing the Comstock Act, which would prevent pro-abortion states from flooding pro-life states with chemical abortion pills.

“These are simple things the administration can do that would be in alignment with what the president himself has said about abortion policy that would save hundreds of lives,” Hawkins reiterated.

She was encouraged to hear DOJ officials confirm the Comstock Act had come up in several conversations at the department.

“So at least they know about it!” she exclaimed.

If the DOJ didn’t before this week, they do now. Hawkins and Students for Life Action delivered tens of thousands of petitions to the department’s doorstep Wednesday supporting the Comstock Act’s enforcement.

As consequential questions about mail-order abortion, the true danger of mifepristone and funding for Planned Parenthood linger over Capitol Hill, the Daily Citizen prays the Trump administration will take bold steps to protect women, babies and life by enforcing the Comstock Act.

Additional Articles and Resources

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Access to Mail-Order Abortion Pills

Texas Father Sues Out-of-State Abortionist for Killing His Preborn Children

Federal Government Makes Abortion Pill Widely Available, Okays Mail Orders Despite Law Prohibiting Them

Shield Laws Enable Chemical Abortion in Pro-Life States

Shield Law Abortion Providers Advertised Alongside Black Market Abortion Pills

#AbortionChangesYou: A Case Study to Understand the Communicative Tensions in Women’s Medication Abortion Narratives (Health Communication)

New Abortion Pill Study Confirms Danger to Mothers

The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event (Ethics and Public Policy Center)

Dec 12 2025

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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Dec 09 2025

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.

Nov 21 2025

Florida Sues Planned Parenthood for Falsely Claiming Abortion is ‘Safer Than Tylenol’

Recently, Florida’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for falsely advertising chemical abortion as “safer than Tylenol.” The lawsuit alleges Planned Parenthood promoted this claim to sell abortion-inducing drugs, like Mifepristone, while downplaying the potential risks for women.

Planned Parenthood claims, “Mifepristone is safe. Safer than Tylenol.” Florida’s complaint alleges this statement is “manifestly false.”

The Florida AG is simply wrong.
"Mifepristone is the most common form of medication abortion, which accounted for two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. in 2023, and was approved by the FDA over two decades ago."

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— Planned Parenthood Florida Action (@PPFLAction) September 19, 2025

The state contends this deceptive advertising violates state consumer protection and racketeering laws:

“Planned Parenthood’s campaign to induce women to purchase abortion drugs by misrepresenting the risks of chemical abortion violates the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA) and constitutes a pattern of racketeering activity under the Florida Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (the Florida RICO Act).”

The lawsuit cites a recent study released by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event,” which “found that 11% of women experience a serious adverse event like sepsis or hemorrhaging within 45 days of a chemical abortion.”

As reported by the Daily Citizen, the research revealed the complication rate for the chemical abortion regimen “is 22 times higher than the FDA’s current label, which suggests the rate of adverse effects is only 0.5%.”

Earlier this year, Secretary Kennedy instructed the FDA to do a “complete review” of the chemical abortion pill. Kennedy said HHS would make recommendations based on the data, but decisions on regulation would come from the White House. HHS is still conducting their investigation.

Florida’s Attorney General alleges tens of thousands of Florida women have been misled about chemical abortions by Planned Parenthood’s deceptive marketing, in violation of the state’s law prohibiting “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce.”

Florida also contends Planned Parenthood violates state RICO law by acting in a pattern of racketeering activity. The complaint alleges Planned Parenthood committed this violation by disseminating “multiple ‘Safer than Tylenol’ advertisements with the same or similar intent (to induce women to purchase chemical abortions), results (the purchase of chemical abortions), accomplices (codefendants), victims (women purchasing chemical abortions) and methods of commission (through representations on the PPFA website and representations or omissions made by Planned Parenthood affiliates).”

The advertisements are also interrelated (not isolated incidents), frequent and ongoing, per the complaint.

The complaint asks the court to order all defendants to stop saying abortion is safer than Tylenol, to pay statutory penalties of $350 million and a $1 million civil penalty per defendant (Planned Parenthood of America, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Planned Parenthood of Florida and Planned Parenthood Florida Action) for violating state law, and any other penalty the court sees fit.

Planned Parenthood denies the allegations. They contend the lawsuit is politically motivated and not based in facts. They have not filed a written legal response to the complaint as of November 21.

The question before the court will be whether Planned Parenthood’s phrasing crosses a legal line into consumer deception. The court’s answer has the potential to reshape how abortion providers communicate risks, how states regulate healthcare advertising, and how consumer protection laws can be used to protect women from the dangers of abortion.

The Daily Citizen will continue to follow this developing story.

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.

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