In 2025, there were 1,220 babies aborted in Alaska. Roughly 60% of those were taken by the abortion pill. That’s 732 or more unborn children who were lost through the use of abortion pills. That does not include the many instances of women who were harmed by these dangerous drugs.
In a deeply troubling decision, the United States Supreme Court has temporarily allowed the continued mailing of dangerous abortion drugs into pro-life states while litigation proceeds in a landmark Louisiana case challenging the FDA’s reckless deregulation of Mifepristone under the Biden administration.
By a 7-2 vote, the Court granted an emergency appeal from abortion pill manufacturers, preserving Biden-era policies that permit abortion drugs to be shipped by mail without an in-person doctor visit while the case moves forward before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. As a result, women can continue receiving dangerous chemical abortion drugs with little or no medical oversight in states that have enacted protections for unborn children following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
While the majority of justices declined to address the merits of the case at this stage, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued forceful dissents exposing both the legal and moral failures behind the abortion industry’s push for unrestricted mail-order abortion.
Justice Thomas warned that the mailing of abortion drugs likely violates the federal Comstock Act, which prohibits using the mail to distribute drugs intended to produce abortions. Justice Samuel Alito warned that it undermines the Supreme Court’s own ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which returned abortion policy decisions to the states and the people.
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According to Alito, abortion pill manufacturers knowingly participate in efforts to circumvent state pro-life laws while continuing to profit from them. Despite repeated claims from the abortion industry that chemical abortion is “safe,” evidence continues to mount showing serious risks associated with mifepristone. The danger only increases when abortion pills are distributed without in-person medical supervision. Without an examination or ultrasound, women may not know how far along they are in pregnancy, whether they have an ectopic pregnancy, or whether they face elevated medical risks.
This fight is far from over. The case now returns to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals for a full hearing on the merits, and the stakes could not be higher.
Please continue praying for wisdom in our courts, courage for elected leaders, and protection for vulnerable women and children across our nation. And please pray that truth will prevail over political pressure and corporate profit.
The views expressed here are those of the author.
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In many states medication abortion is the only option women have left in the event of an unwanted preghancy. As for Trump, abortion has never been a big issue for him. Sure, he’ll take credit for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but only for political purposes. I think he’s pragmatic enough to know that if the Supreme Court banned mifepristone this year, it would hurt the GOP even more in the midterms.
In many states medication abortion is the only option women have left in the event that they should desire, for any reason, to kill their babies and flush them down the toilet.
Nevermind the fact that killing a child and improperly disposing of his body are both criminal offenses in most states, so mothers would be liable for murder and abuse of a corpse if they waited a few months and gave birth before killing their children. We wouldn’t want THAT to happen, so let’s make sure they can kill their children at home and flush their bodies down the toilet so no one will ever have to know. Unless, of course, they experience complications (like heavy bleeding, inability to deliver the child’s placenta, post-abortion infections, etc, etc), in which case said women will end up in the ER and may or may not survive. But it’s worth the risk, right? We must always be able to kill our children and throw them away, no matter what. Right? What woman would be truly autonomous who could not make an object of herself in the bedroom and have the legal freedom to kill and dispose of the children she may thereby conceive? How could we be so cruel as to prevent women from achieving such an exalted status in society?
Calm down.