Greater access to the abortion pill goes hand-in-hand with forced abortions

Tragic injustices are taking place across the country thanks to the Obama and Biden administrations’ decisions to make it easier to access the deadly abortion pill regimen.

The abortion pill is marketed as an easy, safe way to kill preborn children, but research and women’s testimonials prove that it’s neither easy nor safe. In addition to this, expanded access to the abortion pill has created an open door for abusive men to force women into abortions they don’t want.

Key Takeaways:

• Changes made to the abortion pill’s REMS guidelines under Obama in 2016 and Biden in 2023 weakened safety requirements in order to increase access to the abortion pill.

• Online and mail-order access to the abortion pill allows abusive men to obtain the abortion pill and give it to a woman without her knowledge or consent.

• Many cases of this type of forced abortion have been in the news, including one involving a lawsuit filed by a woman in Texas.

What’s Happening:

It has become so easy to get a prescription drug that men with evil intentions can purchase it, drug their baby’s mother, and kill their baby in hopes that she will believe she has suffered a miscarriage. A string of decisions by the FDA under the Obama and Biden administrations loosened safety regulations on the abortion pill mifepristone, which allowed the drug to become available online and without a doctor’s appointment.

On August 11, a Texas woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit against abortion pill business Aid Access, its founder, Rebecca Gomperts, and Christopher Cooprider, the man who is alleged to have purchased the abortion pill from Aid Access.

The complaint states:

Cooprider murdered [the Plaintiff]’s unborn child by secretly dissolving abortion pills into a hot beverage that he had prepared and tricking [the Plaintiff] into drinking it. Cooprider obtained these drugs from Aid Access, a criminal organization that illegally ships abortion pills into Texas and other jurisdictions where abortion has been outlawed. [The Plaintiff] sues to recover damages from Cooprider and Aid Access for the wrongful death of her unborn child.

According to the complaint:

Cooprider… wanted the baby dead — and he made that clear to [the Plaintiff] in no uncertain terms. This became a daily source of contention between Cooprider and [the Plaintiff], as Cooprider would constantly pressure [the Plaintiff] to kill their unborn child, while [the Plaintiff] consistently rebuffed his requests and made clear that she intended to give birth.

Cooprider had sent the woman multiple coercive texts about the abortion pill, refusing to take “no” for an answer.

Not An Outlier

This story is unfortunately not an outlier, and it isn’t just happening in the U.S.. The UK, where the government began allowing the abortion pill to be sent by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic, has seen several examples of forced abortions as well:

• April 2022: Jeffery Smith was sentenced to 20 years in prison — five years of initial confinement followed by 15 years of extended supervision — as part of a plea agreement after he was convicted of attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child. He had used mifepristone and misoprostol to spike the water of his child’s mother, who was 21 weeks pregnant at the time, because she refused to have an abortion.

• February 2024: Mason Herring pleaded guilty to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant person for attempting to induce an abortion by drugging his wife Catherine’s drink several times using misoprostol. It was the couple’s third child, and she was born 10 weeks early with developmental delays. Herring was sentenced to 180 days. “I do not believe that 180 days is justice for attempting to kill your child seven separate times,” Catherine Herring said.

• December 2024: Stuart Worby was sentenced to 12 years in prison after spiking his mistress’s drink to cause an abortion at 15 weeks using pills supplied by one of the UK’s largest abortion businesses, The Gynae Centre. After his mistress made it clear she did not want to have an abortion, he crushed the mifepristone — the first drug of the abortion pill regimen — into orange juice, which she drank as they spoke about what his involvement would be in the baby’s life. He then deceptively inserted misoprostol — the second drug in the abortion pill regimen — inside her vaginally during sex.

• May 2025: Robert Kawada was charged with misleading a woman into taking misoprostol under the guise that he was giving her iron supplements and vitamins.

• July 2025: David Benjamin Coots pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, tampering with a witness, and fourth-degree assault for forcing an abortion drug into his mistress without her knowledge during sex. She went to the emergency room with heavy bleeding, and the pills were discovered inside her. Her baby did not survive.

Coerced Abortions

The abortion pill is also used to coerce women and sexual assault survivors into abortions. Some studies show that 64% of post-abortive women had been pressured in some way to abort. Teens and girls who go through with abortions often reveal they felt pressure from parents or other family members to kill their preborn children.

When taking the abortion pill outside of a doctor’s office or clinic, the opportunity for a medical professional to intervene in a coerced abortion is diminished.

• 2021: Omaha North High School coach and security guard, Ronald L. Powell, was accused by a former student of sexually assaulting her beginning when she was 15 years old, and impregnating her. The woman, age 21 when she filed an affidavit against him, said he coerced her into sex and raped her on the high school campus and in hotel rooms. When she became pregnant, she claimed he brought her to Planned Parenthood for abortion pills.

• 2025: A Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York abortionist who mailed abortion pills to a minor in the pro-life state. Prosecutors say the Louisiana girl, whose age has not been released, was excited about her pregnancy, but according to reports, her mother ordered the abortion drugs and “made her” take them. After taking the abortion pill alone at home, the girl experienced serious complications and was rushed to the hospital.

The Bottom Line:

The case out of Texas is just the latest in a string of forced and coerced abortions across the country — and these are only the ones that the media has publicized. The abortion industry is hoping access to the abortion pill will expand and is promoting advance provision abortion pill use, inviting women to stock up on the drugs — just in case.

Abortionists are even willing to market the abortion pill as “period pills” for women to take without first taking a pregnancy test. Keeping the pills on hand will make it even easier for them to be used forcibly on women who decide they want to keep their babies.

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