A pharmaceutical company that makes the chemical abortion pill mifepristone urged the Supreme Court on Saturday to temporarily halt a federal appeals court’s Friday ruling blocking the drug’s distribution by mail.
One day after a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked a Biden-era policy allowing the mail-order of mifepristone, Danco Laboratories applied to the nation’s highest court asking it to stay the ruling.
The abortion industry is fighting for its life.
Be informed, not misled.
“It bears emphasis how unprecedented the Fifth Circuit’s order is,” attorneys for Danco wrote in the Saturday application to the Court. “Never before has a federal court purported to immediately enjoin a several years’ old drug approval; restrict a distribution system for that drug that manufacturers, providers, patients, and pharmacies have all been using for years; or reinstate conditions that FDA [Food and Drug Administration] determined do not meet the mandatory statutory criteria.”
The FDA approved mifepristone in 2000, under the Clinton administration, but for over two decades, women were required to obtain the drug in person.
According to the New York Times, "The FDA first allowed the mail-order of the abortion drug in 2021, then, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, it made this policy permanent in 2023 — with both developments happening when former President Joe Biden was in the White House."
The Times also said, "Medication is now the method used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the United States, and is typically delivered in the form of a two-drug regimen through the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The first of those drugs is mifepristone, which was approved in 2000. The F.D.A. regulates the medication under a strict framework that applies to only about 70 other drugs. Over the years, after careful review of evolving medical data, the F.D.A. has eased some restrictions around the drug."
Now the abortion industry is trying to make the case that everyone (two-thirds) who wants an abortion gets one by the abortion pills and should be able to receive them in the mail like Tylenol or something.
Mifepristone is not as safe as Big Pharma and Planned Parenthood claim it to be.
Via the Dennison Forum:
Mifepristone, one of two pills used in facilitating chemical abortions, gained FDA approval twenty-five years ago after a study of just under 31,000 participants showed that less than .5 percent experienced serious adverse reactions. That statistic has since been cited to defend not only the use of the pill but also the removal of almost every safeguard that was put in place when it was first introduced to the public.
Initially, women could not obtain the drugs until going to three in-person visits, after which only a physician could prescribe and dispense the pills, which had to be taken in the doctor’s office. An in-office follow-up visit was also required, and any adverse events that resulted from the pills had to be reported.
Now, none of what I just described is still the case. All that is required today for a woman to receive the pills necessary to end a pregnancy is a Teladoc appointment and a mailing address. So, perhaps it should not come as a surprise that mifepristone is not nearly as “safe and effective” as originally thought. And the reality is far worse than you might imagine.
Also, like the data used by the FDA to justify its systemic reduction of all restrictions on Mifepristone, their comparison with Tylenol is misleading and false. It's pathetic.
A recent analysis by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) of more than 865,000 cases since 2017 has shown that “10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.” That means serious complications are twenty-two times more likely to occur than either the FDA or the pill’s makers have claimed.
Analysis of the Ethics and Public Safety Policy Center (EPPC)
On April 29, 2025, the EPPC published a report on Mifepristone and its harms to women.
In it, they said, "Of course, even if the new study suggested that mifepristone is 'safe and effective' for women, it would still be a dangerous lie to claim, as proponents have, that it is 'like Tylenol.” As Ob-Gyn physician Dr. Christine Francis argued in a What Would You Say video, having an abortion is nothing like treating a headache. When Tylenol works, pain is eliminated. When mifepristone works, a developing human life in the womb is ended. “If the medication is successful,” Francis observed, “someone always dies. That is the furthest thing from safe.”
Even more, women are not sufficiently warned that they are, to put it gently, likely to see the result of their chemical abortion. What the EPPC study does not quantify is the emotional and psychological trauma that women have experienced.
Also, like the data used by the FDA to justify its systemic reduction of all restrictions on Mifepristone, the comparison with Tylenol is misleading and false. The claim is based on the total number of hospitalizations of each, but that comparison is “terribly misleading” since so many more people take Tylenol than mifepristone. When compared on a per capita basis, there is no comparison.
At the very least, these data findings require a reexamination of the FDA’s current regulations and protocol on chemical abortions.
Breakpoint, a ministry of the Colson Center, says, "Certainly, it should not remain on the market. But this study is incredibly important to reverse some of the damage the FDA has caused. The stakes could not be higher. Today, the vast majority of chemical abortions “are performed using a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol,” and “chemical abortions now account for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States.” Fifteen years ago, the world learned that the mass-murdering abortionist Kermit Gosnell had been enabled by a severe lack of oversight and regulation. This new report from the EPPC suggests that chemical abortion is its own “house of horrors.”
Takeaway
The New York City-based abortion drug manufacturer markets its Mifepristone under the brand name “Mifeprex” and with the tagline “The Early Option Pill.”
It is shown on the company's website.
Danco asserts that its drug is a “safe and effective option for ending early pregnancy” and has “been used by more than 6 million patients in the U.S.”
However, studies and pro-life lawmakers have strongly contested claims that Mifepristone is “safe and effective,” citing a host of adverse effects on many women who take it.
It was President Ronald Reagan who said, "I've noticed that everybody who is for abortion has already been born."
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson—The right to life is the most fundamental of all human rights. If that right is not protected, all other rights cease to matter.
Psalm 127:3: "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." (Life as a gift from God).
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