Pro-Life Leader: President Trump Needs to Stop Abortion Pills

Tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, President Trump will give his State of the Union address. It’s expected to be a long one, focusing heavily on economic issues.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the leader of the House Democrats, has instructed his caucus to either sit silently or do not attend. More than a few are taking the boycott option.

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Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), both pro-abortion, were tapped to give the Democrats’ responses in English and Spanish, respectively. Interestingly, we’re seeing notably fewer pro-abortion guests this year. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) invited pro-life pastor Damon McGee, an adoptive and foster father.

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Strategist James Carville famously drilled the Clinton campaign to focus on “the economy, stupid.”

But at a challenging moment when the president and some Republicans have faltered on vital pro-life policies, that’s not the only issue voters broadly – and especially the GOP’s most engaged base – need to hear about.

A recent poll by Cygnal, a highly rated firm, shows there’s a cost if they don’t course-correct. Republican primary voters – most of whom identify with the Make America Healthy Again movement – overwhelmingly disapprove of allowing mail-order abortion drugs and back pro-life policies like the Hyde Amendment. One-third of those voters would be less enthusiastic about voting in November and less willing to volunteer if GOP leaders abandon pro-life policies.

In her own “State of the Unborn” address, SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser assesses where the pro-life cause stands:

From the speech (full transcript at sbaprolife.org):

Our movement is strong. There is a flourishing of new, courageous and convincing voices at all levels: our churches, local communities, digital influencers, strong advocates in state and federal government – and this is all very good.

But there is still a reality that we must acknowledge. The other side is never going to give up. As long as they have a grip on institutions, on power, on funds, on political officials, much of the media, we must—and our pro-life elected officials must—keep working and fighting and speaking. Never silent.

Our consensus-building contrasts with their extremism. We have a modest request regarding mail-order drugs and the Hyde Amendment. We’ve built consensus beyond the movement, in the popular culture, that rejects taxpayer funding of abortion and rejects lawlessness surrounding abortion drugs.

States battle for babies and mothers

Meanwhile, a federal district court held a hearing today in Louisiana v. FDA. Louisiana is one of half a dozen states suing the Trump-Vance FDA as blue states like California and New York refuse to halt illegal mail-order abortion drug sales that harm their residents – like Rosalie Markezich, who believes her baby would be alive if her boyfriend couldn’t have obtained abortion drugs online. California Governor Gavin Newsom, a consistent 2028 presidential frontrunner among the Democrats, refuses to extradite abortion drug sellers and told Louisiana’s Attorney General Liz Murrill to (quote) “go f— yourself.”

Why these lawsuits are necessary: On the steps of the court today, AG Murrill noted, “We believed the federal government would resolve this quickly, but they have not.” The Trump-Vance Department of Justice has asked the court to delay relief for a year or more while the FDA completes a promised safety study that has reportedly been slow-walked by Commissioner Makary, to take place after the midterm elections.

Pro-abortion groups are resorting to predictable fearmongering…

…but Louisiana and Markezich have many supporters, including:

• 60 Republican U.S. senators and representatives
• Pro-life attorneys general of 21 states
• Women and families harmed by abortion drugs
• Survivors of forced and coerced abortions
• Former abortion industry workers
• Pro-life ob-gyns

Pregnancy center directors like Lyndsey Sykes, who are seeing the carnage of abortion drugs regularly, support them and bear witness to a bona fide public health crisis:

Our local hospital has told us they see women dealing with the effects of abortion drugs every shift — hemorrhaging, complications, miscarriages linked to chemical abortions. Monroe is not a major metropolitan city. If this is happening here, it is happening everywhere.

Women like Jessica Williams, who succumbed to constant hectoring to undergo a drug-induced abortion despite having a medical background, support them:

There was no in-person appointment. No ultrasound. No physical exam. No private screening for coercion. Not even a video call with a provider. My entire communication was via a chat app.

The drugs were mailed to a hotel across state lines and I drove there to retrieve them. I took the first round of drugs under my ex-husband’s surveillance.

And women like McKenzie Kaupa-Thiesse, who with her now-husband has worked hard to come to terms with abortion grief and find healing, agree:

Pro-abortion advocates speak often about women’s health and “rights.” At the darkest moment of my life, however, they offered me nothing more than a pill and the lie that my impending abortion would be “just like having a period.” Years later, after grieving my lost child and overcoming the trauma of abortion, I am appalled that activists market abortion drugs as “safe,” and “empowering.” I am also shocked that these drugs are available via mail order, which leaves women to suffer alone or to experience forced abortions at the hands of abusers.

In addition, 51 U.S. senators and 175 House representatives previously called on the Trump-Vance administration to reinstate commonsense safeguards on abortion drugs.

In a statement on the case, SBA Pro-Life America’s Dannenfelser said:

Pro-life leaders in the states are in the trenches, seeing the harm wrought by Biden’s Covid-era mail-order abortion drug rule every day as babies die and women are poisoned. The FDA could end this madness any time – yet it refuses. Attorney General Liz Murrill is a hero in this fight for justice, but she is not alone, with a large and growing number of allies across the country and in Congress raising their voices.

Pro-life voters across the country are also watching. We hope President Trump will provide assurance in his State of the Union address that he sees what is happening in the states—the abuse of women and children, the lawlessness of Democrats like Gavin Newsom who are protecting drug dealers, and the erosion of the legacy of his first administration—and that he will not tolerate it any longer.

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