How Mail-Order Abortion Drugs Enable (And Don’t Prevent) Abuse

Claim: “Abortion access” would protect women from abuse by making it easier for them to leave abusive partners.

Fact: The evidence shows abortion is frequently a tool of coercion and mail-order abortion drugs are making it easier for abusers. The FDA’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement for abortion drugs has enabled abusers to order abortion drugs and poison women without their knowledge.

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CLI’s new factsheet on reproductive coercion and abortion shows how abortion is ineffective at ending intimate partner violence (IPV) and often perpetuates it.

Key data points:

• 2025 Australian study: 2.6% pressured/forced to abort vs. 1.1% to become pregnant
• 2022 UK poll: 15% pressured to abort vs. 8% to continue pregnancy
• 2014 Swedish study: 4% of abortion patients reported pressure/force; 4% cited fear of violence
• IPV is associated with multiple abortions. That same Swedish study found that 28% of women with one abortion had ever experienced IPV compared to 51% of those with multiple abortions

The solution to IPV isn’t more abortions. Actual solutions include resources that pregnant and parenting moms need to choose life and escape abusive situations and ending mail-order abortion drugs which don’t allow for in-person screening for abuse or coercion.