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US Postal Service continues to ignore federally illegal mailing of abortion drugs
The United States Postal Service (USPS) "enforces over 200 federal statutes related to crimes that involve the postal system, its employees, and its customers” — except, apparently, the Federal Comstock Act, which restricts the shipment or mailing of abortion pills by USPS and other common carriers.
Today, Big Abortion openly recommends the USPS to abortion pill clients, even admitting that they use USPS to ship abortion drugs in violation of the Comstock Act, with zero legal penalties.
The abortion industry openly advertises USPS, FedEx, and UPS as shipping methods by which it sends abortion drugs, even into states where it is illegal under state law.
Shipping abortion drugs by mail is also federally illegal according to the Comstock Act.
The USPS has not taken any action to enforce this law, despite the fact that it "enforces over 200 federal statutes related to crimes that involve the postal system...."
Even FedEx shareholders recently warned the company to evaluate "how it oversees risks related to distributing mail-order abortion drugs..."
The abortion pill (mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000. The drug was later placed under a REMS safety system to monitor dangerous adverse events and could only be dispensed in person by a licensed medical doctor or clinician. More recently, those safeguards were eroded to allow mifepristone to be dispensed by pharmacy and by mail-order despite a federal prohibition on the shipment of abortion inducing drugs under the Comstock Act.
Americans United for Life (AUL) explained (emphasis added):
Two statutes—18 U.S.C. §§ 1461–1462—restrict mailing or shipping abortifacient matter. 18 U.S.C. § 1461 traces back to Section 2 of the Comstock Act of 1873. 11 Section 1461 contains a mail-order abortion rule that restricts mailing abortifacient matter through the United States Postal Service (“USPS”).
18 U.S.C. § 1462 comes from a separate law that Congress enacted in 1897. It contains a mail-order abortion rule that prohibits the shipment of abortifacient matter through express companies, common carriers, or interactive computer services.
Although 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461–62 originated in nineteenth century statutes, Congress regularly has amended and reaffirmed the laws throughout their statutory history. Congress also has bolstered the laws through 18 U.S.C. § 552, which requires federal officers to comply with the prohibition on mailing abortifacients.
Amid the erosion of abortion pill safety regulations to allow for mail-order dispensing of the drug, the federal Comstock Act has not been enforced. Abortion drugs are now being shipped across the country and are flooding into states that restrict abortion — while so-called "shield laws" in pro-abortion states protect those who ignore both state pro-life laws and the Comstock Act.
The Guttmacher Institute estimated a total of 1,129,900 abortions were committed in 2025. That same year, estimated abortion pill totals reached a staggering 734,435 (61,203 abortions by pill per month, 2,012 a day, 84 hourly, and one abortion pill abortion every 43 seconds).
In 2025, an estimated 90,000 of those abortions were credited to shield laws.
Big Abortion has created "The Mailbox Project," which it says is "designed to help those in unsafe situations access the reproductive care they need by inputting their address and finding the nearest [General Mailing Addresses] GMAs." It claims that "having pills for a medication abortion delivered directly to a home address can be dangerous if someone is living in an unsupportive environment."
The website offers links to USPS locations across the country. While there is no identifiable information regarding who operates the 'Mailbox Project' on the website, it links to the PlanC site, which, as Live Action News previously documented, coaches abortion pill customers how to lie and use general delivery at USPS locations to receive abortion drugs.
Metro Area Modern Reproductive Care LLC, doing business as Roxy Clinic, and operated by Robin Tucker, sells "Discreet Abortion Pill Delivery, Anywhere" through 12 weeks and 6 days, "dispensed by licensed pharmacy partners" to minors "14 years" and up in some states.
Roxy Clinic claims online to "ship everything USPS" in an "unmarked abortion pill package" which "arrives like any other piece of mail." So, it tells clients, "Visit your local post office," which "only receives USPS mail."
It adds:
General Delivery tells the post office to hold your package until you come get it. When it arrives, you show your ID at the counter and they hand it over. You don't need a permanent address, and you don't have to set anything up in advance - the address itself is the instruction.
"The return address printed on the box doesn't include 'Roxy Clinic' or anything tied to abortion, reproductive health, or medication. It's a neutral shipping address that doesn't flag a clinic," it claims.
Hey Jane, which describes the abortion pill as a "discreet way of getting an abortion," ships the deadly drugs in what it calls "discreet packaging."
The pills arrive "in a plain white envelope" without Hey Jane branding or information in the return address.
Hey Jane also uses USPS:
Our free standard shipping option—via USPS Priority Mail—can deliver to PO boxes. Next-day shipping, however, does not deliver to PO boxes at this time.
Pills by Post, which sells the abortion pill through 13 weeks, tells its clients:
You can provide us with the address of a trusted family member or friend. Some people will use a PO Box. Medication can also often be sent to General Delivery at the Post Office for you to pick up...In the unlikely event you need to go to the hospital you do not need to tell them that you took abortion pills if you do not comfortable disclosing this information. A medication abortion looks identical to a miscarriage and is treated exactly the same as a miscarriage.
Abortion pill referral group PlanC's website states under "Options for receiving abortion pills by mail":
USPS General Delivery: General Delivery allows people to have mail sent to a participating post office for pickup. Mail is typically addressed using the recipient’s name, “General Delivery,” and the city, state, and ZIP code. The USPS Find Locations tool can be filtered for “General Delivery” to identify participating locations....
Juniper Midwifery, which offers "advance provision (abortion pills for future use)" in violation of the REMS safety requirements for the drug, often prescribes the pills through CVS Pharmacy.
However, it will also "send a prescription to our partner pharmacy, Honeybee Health, and the medications are shipped to you in plain, white packaging by FedEx or USPS." (emphasis added)
If you live in a building or house without a secure location for FedEx or USPS to leave your package, please consider delivery to a FedEx pick-up site or local post-office. Signature is not required.
A 2025 legal declaration from Jessica Nouhavandi, the founder of the online abortion pill pharmacy Honeybee Health, claimed "Honeybee offers FedEx and USPS as options for our mail-order deliveries." (emphasis added)
The California-based Optio Women's Health ships abortion pills to 13 weeks in a "discreet envelope... via US Postal Service Ground Advantage. Faster shipping — USPS Priority Mail, USPS Priority Mail Express, or UPS — is available as a paid upgrade at checkout."
During hearings regarding his nomination to the Office of Attorney General, Todd Blanche told lawmakers that he would commit resources to end the illegal flooding of abortion pills across state borders, look into cases of coercion concerning the abortion pill, and review a previously rendered slip opinion regarding the federal Comstock Act.
In a 2023 response to an abortion pill lawsuit, then Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told the Washington Post that USPS would “follow the law." Yet, to date, neither U.S. Postal Inspectors nor any other federal agency has enforced this particular law.
Even FedEx shareholders recently warned the company to evaluate "how it oversees risks related to distributing mail-order abortion drugs such as mifepristone and detailing any strategies beyond litigation and legal compliance the company may deploy to mitigate these risks."
Despite the fact that mailing abortion drugs is already a violation of the Federal Comstock Act, virtual abortion pill dispensaries and brick-and-mortar businesses like Planned Parenthood in the U.S. are openly shipping them to minors and adults, in violation of the law.
In addition, pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS openly mail the abortion pill on behalf of prescribers.
Live Action News previously documented multiple things pro-lifers can do to request that both USPS and the Department of Justice enforce the Comstock Act. As that article showed, there are several steps pro-lifers can take:
Contact the U.S. Postal Service by phone.
Request an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) office near you (locate one here).
Visit the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) website, find “tips,” and look for “suspicious mail.”
Send a written complaint.
Contact the Office of the U.S. Attorney General.
Contact your State Attorney General (AG).
Complain to your member of Congress.
Contact the White House.
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned and each state makes its own abortion-related laws, why are abortion providers in multiple states openly shipping these drugs unlawfully into states that prohibit them or restrict telehealth dispensing?
How long will Big Abortion mock federal authorities before something is done?
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·Abortion Pill·By Carole Novielli
US Postal Service continues to ignore federally illegal mailing of abortion drugs
The United States Postal Service (USPS) "enforces over 200 federal statutes related to crimes that involve the postal system, its employees, and its customers” — except, apparently, the Federal Comstock Act, which restricts the shipment or mailing of abortion pills by USPS and other common carriers.
Today, Big Abortion openly recommends the USPS to abortion pill clients, even admitting that they use USPS to ship abortion drugs in violation of the Comstock Act, with zero legal penalties.
The abortion industry openly advertises USPS, FedEx, and UPS as shipping methods by which it sends abortion drugs, even into states where it is illegal under state law.
Shipping abortion drugs by mail is also federally illegal according to the Comstock Act.
The USPS has not taken any action to enforce this law, despite the fact that it "enforces over 200 federal statutes related to crimes that involve the postal system...."
Even FedEx shareholders recently warned the company to evaluate "how it oversees risks related to distributing mail-order abortion drugs..."
The abortion pill (mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000. The drug was later placed under a REMS safety system to monitor dangerous adverse events and could only be dispensed in person by a licensed medical doctor or clinician. More recently, those safeguards were eroded to allow mifepristone to be dispensed by pharmacy and by mail-order despite a federal prohibition on the shipment of abortion inducing drugs under the Comstock Act.
Americans United for Life (AUL) explained (emphasis added):
Two statutes—18 U.S.C. §§ 1461–1462—restrict mailing or shipping abortifacient matter. 18 U.S.C. § 1461 traces back to Section 2 of the Comstock Act of 1873. 11 Section 1461 contains a mail-order abortion rule that restricts mailing abortifacient matter through the United States Postal Service (“USPS”).
18 U.S.C. § 1462 comes from a separate law that Congress enacted in 1897. It contains a mail-order abortion rule that prohibits the shipment of abortifacient matter through express companies, common carriers, or interactive computer services.
Although 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461–62 originated in nineteenth century statutes, Congress regularly has amended and reaffirmed the laws throughout their statutory history. Congress also has bolstered the laws through 18 U.S.C. § 552, which requires federal officers to comply with the prohibition on mailing abortifacients.
Amid the erosion of abortion pill safety regulations to allow for mail-order dispensing of the drug, the federal Comstock Act has not been enforced. Abortion drugs are now being shipped across the country and are flooding into states that restrict abortion — while so-called "shield laws" in pro-abortion states protect those who ignore both state pro-life laws and the Comstock Act.
The Guttmacher Institute estimated a total of 1,129,900 abortions were committed in 2025. That same year, estimated abortion pill totals reached a staggering 734,435 (61,203 abortions by pill per month, 2,012 a day, 84 hourly, and one abortion pill abortion every 43 seconds).
In 2025, an estimated 90,000 of those abortions were credited to shield laws.
Big Abortion has created "The Mailbox Project," which it says is "designed to help those in unsafe situations access the reproductive care they need by inputting their address and finding the nearest [General Mailing Addresses] GMAs." It claims that "having pills for a medication abortion delivered directly to a home address can be dangerous if someone is living in an unsupportive environment."
The website offers links to USPS locations across the country. While there is no identifiable information regarding who operates the 'Mailbox Project' on the website, it links to the PlanC site, which, as Live Action News previously documented, coaches abortion pill customers how to lie and use general delivery at USPS locations to receive abortion drugs.
Metro Area Modern Reproductive Care LLC, doing business as Roxy Clinic, and operated by Robin Tucker, sells "Discreet Abortion Pill Delivery, Anywhere" through 12 weeks and 6 days, "dispensed by licensed pharmacy partners" to minors "14 years" and up in some states.
Roxy Clinic claims online to "ship everything USPS" in an "unmarked abortion pill package" which "arrives like any other piece of mail." So, it tells clients, "Visit your local post office," which "only receives USPS mail."
It adds:
General Delivery tells the post office to hold your package until you come get it. When it arrives, you show your ID at the counter and they hand it over. You don't need a permanent address, and you don't have to set anything up in advance - the address itself is the instruction.
"The return address printed on the box doesn't include 'Roxy Clinic' or anything tied to abortion, reproductive health, or medication. It's a neutral shipping address that doesn't flag a clinic," it claims.
Hey Jane, which describes the abortion pill as a "discreet way of getting an abortion," ships the deadly drugs in what it calls "discreet packaging."
The pills arrive "in a plain white envelope" without Hey Jane branding or information in the return address.
Hey Jane also uses USPS:
Our free standard shipping option—via USPS Priority Mail—can deliver to PO boxes. Next-day shipping, however, does not deliver to PO boxes at this time.
Pills by Post, which sells the abortion pill through 13 weeks, tells its clients:
You can provide us with the address of a trusted family member or friend. Some people will use a PO Box. Medication can also often be sent to General Delivery at the Post Office for you to pick up...In the unlikely event you need to go to the hospital you do not need to tell them that you took abortion pills if you do not comfortable disclosing this information. A medication abortion looks identical to a miscarriage and is treated exactly the same as a miscarriage.
Abortion pill referral group PlanC's website states under "Options for receiving abortion pills by mail":
USPS General Delivery: General Delivery allows people to have mail sent to a participating post office for pickup. Mail is typically addressed using the recipient’s name, “General Delivery,” and the city, state, and ZIP code. The USPS Find Locations tool can be filtered for “General Delivery” to identify participating locations....
Juniper Midwifery, which offers "advance provision (abortion pills for future use)" in violation of the REMS safety requirements for the drug, often prescribes the pills through CVS Pharmacy.
However, it will also "send a prescription to our partner pharmacy, Honeybee Health, and the medications are shipped to you in plain, white packaging by FedEx or USPS." (emphasis added)
If you live in a building or house without a secure location for FedEx or USPS to leave your package, please consider delivery to a FedEx pick-up site or local post-office. Signature is not required.
A 2025 legal declaration from Jessica Nouhavandi, the founder of the online abortion pill pharmacy Honeybee Health, claimed "Honeybee offers FedEx and USPS as options for our mail-order deliveries." (emphasis added)
The California-based Optio Women's Health ships abortion pills to 13 weeks in a "discreet envelope... via US Postal Service Ground Advantage. Faster shipping — USPS Priority Mail, USPS Priority Mail Express, or UPS — is available as a paid upgrade at checkout."
During hearings regarding his nomination to the Office of Attorney General, Todd Blanche told lawmakers that he would commit resources to end the illegal flooding of abortion pills across state borders, look into cases of coercion concerning the abortion pill, and review a previously rendered slip opinion regarding the federal Comstock Act.
In a 2023 response to an abortion pill lawsuit, then Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told the Washington Post that USPS would “follow the law." Yet, to date, neither U.S. Postal Inspectors nor any other federal agency has enforced this particular law.
Even FedEx shareholders recently warned the company to evaluate "how it oversees risks related to distributing mail-order abortion drugs such as mifepristone and detailing any strategies beyond litigation and legal compliance the company may deploy to mitigate these risks."
Despite the fact that mailing abortion drugs is already a violation of the Federal Comstock Act, virtual abortion pill dispensaries and brick-and-mortar businesses like Planned Parenthood in the U.S. are openly shipping them to minors and adults, in violation of the law.
In addition, pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS openly mail the abortion pill on behalf of prescribers.
Live Action News previously documented multiple things pro-lifers can do to request that both USPS and the Department of Justice enforce the Comstock Act. As that article showed, there are several steps pro-lifers can take:
Contact the U.S. Postal Service by phone.
Request an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) office near you (locate one here).
Visit the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) website, find “tips,” and look for “suspicious mail.”
Send a written complaint.
Contact the Office of the U.S. Attorney General.
Contact your State Attorney General (AG).
Complain to your member of Congress.
Contact the White House.
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned and each state makes its own abortion-related laws, why are abortion providers in multiple states openly shipping these drugs unlawfully into states that prohibit them or restrict telehealth dispensing?
How long will Big Abortion mock federal authorities before something is done?
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
Contact editor@liveaction.org for questions, corrections, or if you are seeking permission to reprint any Live Action News content.
Guest Articles: To submit a guest article to Live Action News, email editor@liveaction.org with an attached Word document of 800-1000 words. Please also attach any photos relevant to your submission if applicable. If your submission is accepted for publication, you will be notified within three weeks. Guest articles are not compensated (see our Open License Agreement). Thank you for your interest in Live Action News!
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·Ted Cruz is the latest of a string of Republican senators to push an agreeing Blanche to ban the mailing of mifepristone. They're coming for abortion pills next.
