Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is reversing former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's conservative policies by allowing LGBT pride parades, revising adoption approval processes for single applicants, and planning to repeal bans on promoting homosexuality and gender ideology to children. Additionally, Magyar's government is reviewing pro-life policies, including the requirement for pregnant mothers to hear fetal heartbeats and the potential approval of the abortion pill and changes to morning-after pill prescriptions.
The UCSF study on telehealth medication abortion tracked 6,034 cases but lost contact with 1,580 women, over a quarter of the participants, and assumed their outcomes matched those who reported back. This lack of follow-up potentially undercounts complications, as independent analyses and insurance data suggest serious adverse event rates closer to 11 percent, contrasting with the study's reported 0.25 percent serious adverse event rate.
Abortions in the United States increased from 1,108,810 in 2024 to 1,129,020 in 2025, according to data from the #WeCount project and Guttmacher's MAPS. The rise in abortions is attributed to factors including more women ordering abortion drugs online and obtaining abortions in states where it remains legal, as well as increased out-of-state travel for abortions, despite various state-level legal restrictions enacted after the overturning of Roe v.
Alliance Defending Freedom is challenging the FDA's policy that allows abortion drugs like mifepristone to be mailed, arguing it undermines state laws that prohibit abortion and can lead to coercion, as in the case of Rosalie Markezich in Louisiana. Pro-life organizations, including Family Council, have filed legal briefs and are urging the federal government to reverse the FDA's mail-order abortion drug policy, citing health risks and the need for in-person medical oversight.
California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 2540, which requires every community college with a student health center to stock and advertise the abortion pill, with the mandate expected to take effect by January 2029 if signed by Governor Newsom. Community college health centers, often staffed by a single nurse responsible for thousands of students, will either dispense the pill through telehealth or contracted external agencies, raising concerns about the capacity to manage the medical risks associated with chemical abortions.
An OH doctor who forced his girlfriend to take the abortion pill against her will has received a sentence of just six months in jail, plus two years probation.
A bill requiring community college campuses in CA to offer the abortion pill has passed the state's legislature and is now at the desk of Governor Gavin Newsom.
Abortion-pill advocates often cite studies claiming medication abortion is highly effective and serious complications are extremely rare. However, a widely cited study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been scrutinized for raising serious questions about the validity of those conclusions.
Abortion pills get mailed to dorm rooms with instructions to flush the aftermath down a toilet. The federal government just admitted it has no idea where all of that ends up. For...
A man who poisoned his girlfriend with abortion drugs received a sentence of six months and probation. The case highlights concerns about the legal consequences for such actions involving abortion drugs.
Dr. William Evans has lost his authorization to practice medicine after prescribing an ‘abortive’ to a patient who may have been pregnant with his child.
A Louisiana father secretly slipped abortion pills into his pregnant daughter's food. She went into premature labor, and that baby is now fighting for life in a Lafayette NICU. Now a federal...
A North Carolina teenager gave birth into a toilet after ordering abortion pills online. She was 31 weeks pregnant, nearly three times past what the FDA allows. Her baby lived, and he's...
Flanders reports on an indictment alleging that a Kentucky man replaced his pregnant girlfriend's medication with an abortion drug without her knowledge. She summarizes the reported evidence and places the allegation alongside other cases of coerced or nonconsensual abortion.
Louisiana filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore safety restrictions on abortion pills that were removed by the Biden administration, arguing that the removal of the in-person dispensing requirement undermines state laws and harms women.
Students for Life of America praised the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed study to detect mifepristone and misoprostol in America's drinking water as a victory for common sense, highlighting concerns about chemical abortion pill pollution in water systems. The EPA's study will screen for a broad range of emerging contaminants, including these abortion drugs, following advocacy efforts by Students for Life and support from members of Congress and attorneys general to include mifepristone in mandatory water testing under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Carafem, a mail-order abortion drug distributor, is partnering with social media influencers to promote at-home chemical abortions through videos that appear as personal experiences but are likely paid advertisements. Live Action's investigation highlights concerns about the safety of mail-order abortion pills, citing data that suggests higher risks of serious adverse reactions and ongoing legal efforts to restore in-person dispensing requirements for abortion pills in the U.S.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the Louisiana vs FDA case regarding the FDA's 2023 decision to remove the requirement for an in-person doctor visit before receiving an abortion pill, which Louisiana claims has led to unsafe mailing of abortion pills.
The Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Louisiana's lawsuit challenging abortion-pill regulations. Louisiana presented arguments based on state sovereignty and Medicaid costs, seeking specific relief in the case.
Novielli reviews oral arguments in Louisiana's challenge to federal rules permitting mailed abortion pills. She describes the state's claims of legal and financial harm and criticism of the federal government's focus on standing.
A new poll underscores the importance of highlighting the danger posed by mail-order abortion pills, which have become widespread since the Biden administration.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Louisiana v. FDA to be argued in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 9, 2026. “Louisiana again confronts the dangers of chemical abortion pills in court, and those risks include threats to endangered species, which we detailed in our amicus brief,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “A peer-reviewed study shows that mifepristone and mifepristone equivalents taint the water where it was tested. The risk to ... Read More The post Students for Life Again Supports Louisiana’s Case Against the FDA with an Amicus Brief, As Chemical Abortion Pill Policy to be Debate
Flanders argues that remote access to abortion pills has enabled use later in pregnancy than the FDA-approved regimen. She discusses reported cases and criticizes the removal of in-person dispensing requirements.
SBA Pro-Life America advocates against abortion drugs, highlighting concerns about women being harmed or poisoned against their will. The organization focuses on advancing pro-life laws, electing pro-life leaders, and empowering communities through voter contact programs to protect unborn children and support mothers.
Flanders discusses Sami Parker's criticism of influencer partnerships promoting at-home abortion through Carafem. The article questions how the sponsored content presents the experience and whether important risks and difficulties are omitted.
Sielicki examines a Noble Predictive Insights poll commissioned for Center Square about mailed abortion pills. She reports support for online prescribing alongside respondents' safety concerns and discusses objections from pro-life advocates.
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman sued an organization that promotes mail-order abortion-inducing drugs to women in states where it’s restricted. Coleman announced the litigation Thursday against Mayday Health, a New York-based activist organization, stating the organization broke state law by advertising illegal mail-order abortion pills. Last weekend, Mayday Health chartered an airplane that flew over...
Mia Steupert compares national post-Dobbs abortion estimates from different data sources. The report discusses how interstate travel, mail-order medication, and changing state laws complicate estimates of abortion incidence.
A New York abortion group flew a banner over the Kentucky State Fair advertising illegal abortion drugs, prompting backlash from the state attorney general.
A federal judge on Sunday agreed to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s request to pause a lawsuit over the safety of the mifepristone pill and the drug’s mail-order distribution. The post Federal judge delays mifepristone lawsuit until after midterms appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
