New Grassroots Effort Urges Trump to Stop Mail-Order Abortions

The Arkansas-based pro-life group Family Council launched a grassroots effort Thursday urging President Trump and members of Congress to end former President Joe Biden’s mail-order abortion policies.

That’s a refrain pro-life groups have been saying for some time but the efforts to get Trump to do something about the radical pro-abortion policy that has killed millions of babies is reaching a fever pitch.

Family Council wants Trump to restore the in-person doctor’s visit requirement for chemical abortion drugs. That would stop mail-order abortions that are killing babies, harming women, and violating state pro-life laws that ban abortions.

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The organization described the effort as a women’s health issue, noting that abortionists in other states are shipping abortion pills into Arkansas communities in violation of state law and without medical oversight.

“This is a women’s health issue. Abortionists in other states are shipping abortion pills into communities in Arkansas in violation of state law and with no medical oversight,” said Family Council President Jerry Cox. “We are urging Arkansans to contact the Trump administration and their members of Congress this week, and ask that federal officials reinstate the medical safeguards that the Biden administration removed. Arkansans can learn more at abortioncrimebymail.com.”

Cox pointed to broad public support for reinstating medical safeguards on the drugs.

“A recent Federalist poll found that 67 percent of likely voters support reinstating the in-person doctor’s visit requirement for abortion pills — including 63 percent of Democrats and 72 percent of Republicans,” he said. “This is plain common sense, and Americans across the political spectrum agree.”

The group highlighted risks created by allowing abortion drugs to be ordered online and shipped without oversight, including cases where the drugs were administered secretly or under coercion.

“We’ve seen cases in Ohio, Texas, and Louisiana where abortion drugs were ordered online and then either given to women secretly without their knowledge or consent or where women were coerced into taking the abortion drugs,” Cox said. “Last year, the Arkansas Legislature passed Act 485 clarifying that it is a crime to secretly give a pregnant woman abortion-inducing drugs without her knowledge or consent. The federal government’s current policy of allowing abortion drugs by mail puts women at risk, and it undermines good state laws like Arkansas Act 485 that are designed to protect women. This needs to change.”

Cox said the current federal approach requires action at the national level.

“That’s why we are calling on our federal leaders to reverse the Biden administration’s abortion drug policies, and we are working with our friends across the state to help them contact their congressional leaders as well,” he said. “Arkansans can learn more at abortioncrimebymail.com.”

The new grassroots campaign is directing residents to contact the Trump administration and their members of Congress through the website abortioncrimebymail.com.

The action comes amid heightened national scrutiny of mail-order abortion pills.

The FDA has launched a safety study of mifepristone, the primary drug used in chemical abortions. The review, expected to take about six months, is examining risks associated with the drug, particularly when distributed remotely without in-person medical oversight.

A recent analysis of commercial insurance claims involving 865,727 mifepristone prescriptions from 2017 to 2023. It found 94,605 women — nearly 11% — suffered serious complications within 45 days, including hemorrhage in 3.31% of cases, emergency room visits in 4.73%, and sepsis in 0.10%.

Peer-reviewed research found three quarters of ER visits within 30 days after abortion drug use were coded as severe or critical. Two separate, independent studies also found more than 1 in 10 women experience at least one severe adverse event. Complications can include hemorrhaging, infection, sepsis, and even death.

Other issues encompassed infections, transfusions, hospitalizations and life-threatening events like cardiac problems or anaphylaxis. In nearly 3% of cases, the drug failed, requiring surgical follow-up. Multiple women have died from the abortion pill.

A large national poll found 7 in 10 voters want to roll back Biden’s mail-order abortion drug rule and reinstate safeguards like in-person doctor visits.