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U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) led 175 House Republicans in a letter demanding the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) undo the Biden administration’s “mail-order abortion scheme” and investigate the potential safety risks of abortion pills.

Sen. Bill Cassidy led more than a dozen GOP senators in sending a letter to the FDA Commissioner pressing for answers about the recent approval of a generic abortion pill and agency progress studying the risks of mifepristone. 

Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Friday allowing healthcare workers the option of anonymously mailing abortion drugs into red states to skirt pro-life laws. 

Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law requiring public universities to provide abortion pills to students. 

Democrat Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey strengthened protections for medical professionals who send abortion pills and sex change drugs into red states via telehealth.

A district court permanently blocked Colorado from enforcing a state law that bans abortion pill reversal services against a Catholic healthcare clinic.

A study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that 10.93 percent of women who had mifepristone abortions experienced severe complications including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following the abortion.

While the abortion pill is touted as “safe and effective,” new data suggests complications are 22 times higher than previously reported.

Planned Parenthood expected to perform 25 medication abortions through its mobile “health” clinic stationed near the DNC on Monday and Tuesday. 

More than 171,000 women traveled out of state to have abortions in 2023, according to data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.

Pro-abortion protesters were arrested outside the Supreme Court ahead of oral arguments in a high-stakes abortion pill case.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could have a significant impact on how mifepristone is prescribed in the United States.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Tuesday, March 26, in a case that could have a significant impact on how mifepristone — the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen — is used and prescribed in the United States.

The Supreme Court set a date for oral arguments in a case about the FDA rolling back safety restrictions for mifepristone.

The Supreme Court decided to hear a case about the FDA rolling back safety restrictions around the abortion pill.

The Biden Administration’s mail-order abortion regime is being challenged in part of a federal lawsuit, but no matter the outcome, the USPS plans to “follow the law,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says.

Vice President Kamala Harris mistakenly credited a nonexistent federal agency with approving mifepristone, a drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen.

Democrat-run Oregon has taken steps to stockpile a three-year supply of the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen — enough to end the lives of more than 22,000 unborn babies.

A federal appeals court issued a ruling late Wednesday evening partially staying an order from a lower court blocking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2000 approval of mifepristone, the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen.

The United States saw 32,000 fewer abortions in the six months after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade,  according to a report.

Democrat Reps. Pat Ryan (NY) and Lizzie Fletcher (TX) reintroduced a bill on Monday that would “reaffirm” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to regulate abortion pills.

At least three Democrat-run states have rushed to stockpile abortion pills in response to a ruling out of Texas on Friday halting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen.

The Thomas More Society is looking to challenge abortion pill distribution networks in a wrongful death lawsuit it filed on behalf of a Texas man against three women who allegedly helped his then-wife abort their baby.

A federal judge released a decision on Friday evening halting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2000 approval of mifepristone.

A New York pro-life pregnancy center was attacked for a second time after being firebombed last year following the leak of the Dobbs decision. 

One of the 17 pro-abortion bills recently introduced would protect medical providers who mail abortion pills to other states.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) signed a bill on Friday outlawing abortion pills, making the state the first to do so in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

The bill stops the licensing of abortion clinics by May of this year and bans the operation of all abortion clinics starting in January 2024.

A Texas man filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against three women, alleging that they helped his wife self-manage a medication abortion.

Hochul and James asked the pharmacies to “commit” to dispensing abortion pills in-store and by mail in a letter on Thursday.

Newsom will not renew a $54 million contract with Walgreens over its decision not to dispense abortion pills in 21 Republican-led states.

Republicans in the Florida House and Senate filed similar bills on Tuesday that would restrict abortion after six weeks of pregnancy — around the time when a baby’s heartbeat can first be detected.

A woman was arrested for allegedly self-administering an abortion pill, which ended the life of her nearly six-month-old unborn baby.

Several Democrat state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the FDA challenging the agency’s restrictions on mifepristone.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that a lawsuit challenging the FDA’s mifepristone approval is an “attack on the very foundation of our public health system.”