{"id":34736,"date":"2025-09-03T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=34736"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:48:59","slug":"trump-needs-direction-shift-on-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/trump-needs-direction-shift-on-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Needs Direction Shift on Abortion Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>By:  The Editors of The National Catholic Register, originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/commentaries\/trump-needs-direction-shift-on-abortion-pill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September 2, 2025, NCRegister.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There\u2019s only one way Donald Trump\u2019s second administration can be remembered as a pro-life presidency in a manner comparable to his widely praised first term in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Then, he displayed impeccable pro-life credentials by fulfilling his crucial 2016 campaign promise to appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices who could be relied upon to help overturn the court\u2019s disastrous&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade&nbsp;<\/em>decision that legalized abortion nationally \u2014 as they did via their support for the court\u2019s landmark&nbsp;<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health&nbsp;<\/em>decision in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This time, he needs to backtrack from a different 2024 campaign commitment: his misguided pledges to uphold easy access to abortion pills. Instead, he must mandate swift and concrete action against the use of these life-destroying chemicals, which are now responsible for two-thirds of all U.S. abortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Under the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s current so-called \u201ctelehealth\u201d regulatory framework, a pregnant woman can obtain abortion pills up to 10 weeks\u2019 gestation after only one online or phone meeting with an abortion provider, with the drugs shipped afterward through mail-order pharmacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The abortion lobby continually misrepresents this abortion \u201cself-administration,\u201d done with zero direct medical supervision, as a harmless experience. That\u2019s a lie. What ensues is that the mother induces her own miscarriage, with all the known injuries that can result, including potentially life-threatening complications such as sepsis, hemorrhaging and infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Abortion pill access is never \u201ctelehealth.\u201d For the pregnant mother, it\u2019s \u201cteleharm.\u201d For her unborn baby, it\u2019s \u201cteledeath.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Responding to pro-life efforts to highlight the documented dangers of the abortion pill, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised a full review of the drugs\u2019 harms and hazards. If it\u2019s a fair and honest review, there can only be one outcome: sweeping change to FDA policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At a minimum, the FDA\u2019s original rules, instituted in 2000, should be reinstated. They prohibited prescribing of the abortion pill after only seven weeks\u2019 gestation and mandated multiple in-person visits with a doctor before, during and after a pregnant woman took it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Even better would be to emulate the Supreme Court\u2019s example in terms of overturning&nbsp;<em>Roe<\/em>&nbsp;completely. Similarly, the FDA can acknowledge it made an egregious error during the final days of the pro-abortion-rights Clinton administration and rescind the abortion pills\u2019 approval completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The second urgent action the administration should undertake is instructing the Department of Justice to move aggressively against the network of abortion providers that are shipping abortion pills into pro-life states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When the Supreme Court fulfilled Trump\u2019s goal of returning abortion law to state jurisdiction via the&nbsp;<em>Dobbs&nbsp;<\/em>decision, informed pro-lifers knew this wouldn\u2019t halt all legal abortions. But it should have been a major step forward, given that 16 states subsequently banned almost all abortions or allowed them only until six weeks\u2019 gestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Since those jurisdictions include Texas and Florida \u2014 the nation\u2019s second- and third-most populous states \u2014 a momentous decline from the approximately 1 million abortions that occurred nationally each year pre-<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;ought to have taken place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Lamentably, that hasn\u2019t happened. Instead, the national tally has climbed, courtesy of the \u201cshield laws\u201d passed by eight pro-abortion states allowing abortion purveyors to profit without penalty for flouting other states\u2019 laws by shipping hundreds of thousands of abortion bills by mail into pro-life states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Allowing this to continue, without direct DOJ intervention in support of states like Texas that are striving to thwart these mail-order abortions, will make a complete mockery out of&nbsp;<em>Dobbs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">President Trump\u2019s pro-life commitment has always been anchored more in political convenience than in a deep-seated personal conviction regarding the evil of all abortion. But equally, he has proven himself to be a man of his word in terms of appointing Supreme Court justices who subsequently voted to return abortion law to the states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So perhaps the most useful service that pro-life members of Trump\u2019s inner circle can provide at this crucial moment would be to remind the president that if he doesn\u2019t move to rein in abortion-pill distribution, he\u2019s allowing pro-abortion Democrats like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to mock&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 and his pro-life legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>From The Editors of the National Catholic Register\/Editorial.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: The Editors of The National Catholic Register, originally published September 2, 2025, NCRegister.com There\u2019s only one way Donald Trump\u2019s second administration can be remembered as a pro-life presidency in a manner comparable to his widely praised first term in office. 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