Abortion Pills By Mail are a ‘Direct Assault on the Rights of States to Defend Innocent Human Life’

Abortion Pills By Mail are a ‘Direct Assault on the Rights of States to Defend Innocent Human Life’

Washington, D.C. – Today, Live Action, one of the nation’s leading human rights organizations, is outraged by the decision of the United States Supreme Court to issue an indefinite stay on the Fifth Circuit’s ruling to halt the expansion of mail-order abortion pills. This decision favors abortion pill manufacturers and means the Biden-era mail-order access will remain, allowing abortion businesses to continue mailing dangerous drugs across state lines while the initial case moves through the courts. 

Live Action Founder and President, Lila Rose, released the following comment:

“Today’s order is tragic and wrong. The Supreme Court has allowed the mail order abortion pill regime to continue while litigation moves forward, enabling abortion businesses to ship deadly drugs across state lines and into states that have acted to protect preborn children. This is a direct assault on the right of states to defend innocent human life, and on the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of equal protection, which must extend to every human being, born and preborn. Justice Thomas was exactly right: abortion pill companies are ‘not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise,’ and they cannot ‘claim harm from an order that makes it harder for them to commit crimes.’

Justice Alito was also right that ‘equity demands that profits from unlawful activity be surrendered, not protected.’ The Comstock Act already prohibits mailing abortion drugs, and it must be enforced. No abortion business has a right to ship death through the mail, and no state should be forced to watch its pro-life laws nullified by out-of-state abortionists. 

If the Trump administration refuses to act, there will be grave consequences for babies and mothers, and political consequences for Republicans in the midterms. Pro-life voters did not elect Republicans to manage the abortion pill regime. They elected them to protect children, defend mothers, and enforce the law. The FDA has the authority and responsibility to do this. The FDA must immediately pull mifepristone from the market and stop allowing pills that kill children and harm women to be mailed across America.”

Today’s dissent made clear that members of the Supreme Court recognize the serious legal and constitutional questions surrounding the mass distribution of abortion drugs across state lines. Sixty-five percent of all abortions in the United States are Chemical abortions, which pose serious risks to women while ending the lives of an estimated 7.5 million preborn children. Despite today’s decision, Live Action continues to call on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the new FDA Commissioner to remove the abortion pill from the market entirely. 

About Lila Rose and Live Action
Lila Rose founded and serves as president of Live Action. Live Action is a 501(c)3 human rights non-profit and the digital leader of the global pro-life movement. Live Action exists today to shift public opinion against abortion and to defend the rights of the most vulnerable. With over 9 million social media followers and 3.7 billion lifetime video views, Live Action reaches individuals 68 million times per month– saving lives and transforming hearts, with 43% of surveyed followers saying Live Action’s content has changed their position against abortion. Through compelling educational media, human interest storytelling, investigative reporting, and community activism, Live Action reveals the humanity of preborn children and exposes the abortion industry’s exploitation of women and families for profit. Lila is also the author of Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World.