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By: S.A. McCarthy, originally published October 9, 2025, The Washington Stand<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican states with pro-life laws on the books have been battling blue states over the issue of mail-order abortion drugs. Now, one red state is taking the fight to the federal courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) filed a lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), petitioning the agency to reinstate a prior rule requiring that the abortion drug mifepristone be dispensed in person. \u201cThere\u2019s been this dramatic increase in people, groups, organizations, doctors, and other states mailing these pills to women in our state where that is illegal,\u201d Murrill\u00a0recounted on \u201cWashington Watch\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday night. \u201cIt\u2019s just a problem that\u2019s being perpetuated by the FDA\u2019s continuing to allow these pills to not be subject to the protocols that they used to be subject to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is flat out drug dealing. \u2026 There is no doctor-patient relationship whatsoever. These are people who are writing these prescriptions and sending them to anybody who asks, don\u2019t know where they\u2019re going, and there is no relationship \u2014 period,\u201d Murrill continued. The previous rules governing the prescription of mifepristone required abortion drug manufacturers \u201cto have a contract with a doctor that prescribed these medications, and they had to comply with these elevated FDA rules which required in-person dispensing and ultrasound and post care,\u201d she explained. \u201cAll of those things meant you needed an individual personal relationship with a doctor. You don\u2019t have that anymore. And it is illegal to use those pills here for an abortion. So every one of those are illegal abortions being practiced in our state without any medical supervision whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, himself a former Louisiana state legislator,\u00a0commended<\/a>\u00a0Murrill and the state\u2019s leadership for filing the lawsuit. \u201cI applaud my home state of Louisiana for filing this lawsuit to reinstate commonsense safety requirements that the Biden administration so callously and dangerously removed,\u201d he asserted. \u201cThe Trump administration should repeal approval of mifepristone altogether, but it should also swiftly adopt a policy that aligns with its declaration that abortion belongs under state jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMifepristone has become a murder weapon. The drug is under review because it is unsafe for women \u2014 but it is also a tool used by killers \u2014 many times against a woman\u2019s will or without her knowledge,\u201d Perkins noted. \u201cWhile a transparent, unbiased review of mifepristone is taking place, abusers could be disarmed if the Trump administration would re-enact and strengthen the FDA safety protocols originally governing the drug.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louisiana recently\u00a0issued an arrest warrant<\/a>\u00a0for a California-based abortionist who shipped mifepristone to a couple in the Bayou State. The abortion drugs were actually ordered by a man who used his pregnant wife\u2019s email to obtain the pills before hiding them in her food and coercing her into an abortion. In numerous instances, women have been coerced into taking abortion drugs in states where the practice is illegal, sometimes by boyfriends or husbands, sometimes even by family members. According to a study from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) this summer, 84% of abortion drugs dispensed by mail are\u00a0shipped to states with pro-life laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, many blue states and districts \u2014 namely, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia \u2014 have enacted \u201cshield laws,\u201d protecting abortionists in their states from being sued or prosecuted by officials in pro-life states for violating pro-life state laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the FDA first approved mifepristone for prescription in 2000, three in-person physician visits were required before the drug could be prescribed, the drug could only be prescribed by a physician, it had to be dispensed and consumed in the physician\u2019s office, and a follow-up visit was required, as was reporting of any complications. Many of those provisions were jettisoned by then-President Barack Obama in 2016, including the requirement that the abortion drug be prescribed by a physician and consumed in-office, as well as the mandatory follow-up visit and reporting of complications. Obama\u2019s FDA also lowered the number of required in-person physician visits prior to prescription and increased the \u201cmaximum gestational age\u201d for prescribing the drug from seven weeks to 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, then-President Joe Biden and his administration eliminated many of the few remaining safeguards, requiring no in-person physician visits, no physician to prescribe the drug, no dispensing or consuming the drug in-office, no follow-up visit, and no reporting of complications. Murrill called the Biden-era changes \u201centirely arbitrary.\u201d She explained, \u201cThe data has always been there, [warning] that this is dangerous for women. That\u2019s why the protocols are in place in the first place. Women can get sepsis if they have a partial abortion, [and] that happens in a significant number of these cases.\u201d The Louisiana AG explained that abortion drugs can and do cause serious complications, including hemorrhaging and even death, in some cases. \u201cThere [are] all kinds of contraindications also for women to not take these pills. That\u2019s why you were required to see a doctor, have an ultrasound, and also have some follow-up care if, in fact, you were using these.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murrill also questioned the FDA\u2019s recent decision to\u00a0expand access to the generic version of the abortion drug<\/a>\u00a0last week. \u201cWhat was baffling was that they found the time, even facing an impending government shutdown, to approve generic drugs in this space, even after they have admitted that the Biden administration rule was arbitrary and capricious and unfounded and unsupported by the data,\u201d she recounted. \u201cI don\u2019t understand how that happened, I really don\u2019t. I think that the White House \u2026 seemed to be poised to withdraw the Biden administration rules. And then the FDA turned around and approved a generic\u201d abortion drug. \u201cYou know, right on the tails of admitting that the Biden rules were arbitrary. And so I don\u2019t know why that happened. It shouldn\u2019t have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Szoch, director of FRC\u2019s Center for Human Dignity, told The Washington Stand, \u201cOnce again, Louisiana is stepping up to the plate in defense of women and of unborn children. Louisiana is a state where unborn life is valued; where women are valued.\u201d She added, \u201cLeaders there \u2014 especially AG Murrill \u2014 recognize that when one person is attacked by the abortion industry, everyone around them suffers because the impact of one life is incalculable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Biden administration\u2019s repeal of the in-person dispensing requirement has directly harmed the people of Louisiana. In a state where unborn lives are protected from abortion and women are protected from the pressures of the abortion industry and abusers who utilize it, the FDA\u2019s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement has resulted in multiple Louisiana women being pressured or forced into taking mifepristone,\u201d Szoch observed. \u201cTragically, though this drug\u2019s use is illegal in Louisiana and it is unwanted by many women, the lack of in-person dispensing has allowed abusers to kill several mothers\u2019 unborn children, and the pain and suffering these mothers have undergone is unimaginable.\u201d She added, \u201cLouisiana is working in every way possible to right this wrong \u2014 even taking on the FDA. Let\u2019s praise God for their courage and pray for the success of their lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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