While pro-lifers continue to cheer the closure of major abortion hubs around the country, Planned Parenthood’s brick-and-mortar hardships only tell part of the story. No one can dispute that years of prayers, hard work, marching, and lobbying have started to put the hurt on the industry of death, but there’s a catch. In the middle of funding cuts and boarded-up buildings is a very sobering reality: today’s abortion is just a postage stamp away.
As heartening as it is to see the world shifting under Planned Parenthood’s feet, the business built on the backs of taxpayers has a contingency plan. And that contingency plan is turning abortion into a tiny and dangerous weapon that can be shipped to anyone, anywhere. Incredibly, living in a pro-life state doesn’t change that.
While the Supreme Court was right — and years overdue — in overturning the flawed Roe v. Wade ruling, the biggest mistake people made after 2022 was thinking the abortion question was solved. Far from it. If anything, Dobbs only inflamed the tensions boiling under the surface. As the headlines are starting to make quite clear, it’s only exposed the explosive divides between red and blue states. A divide, unfortunately, that empires like Planned Parenthood continue to exploit.
As Family Research Council’s Mary Szoch explained, “The Comstock Act very clearly states that no abortion-inducing object or drug may be sent through the mail. It’s written right there in federal law. The Biden administration looked at that, and they said, ‘You know, we will only enforce that as narrowly as possible.’” Now, years later, the country is learning the hard way, it hasn’t been enforced at all. And it’s time, Szoch and millions of other Americans argue, “for the Trump administration to stand up and say, ‘Every Biden policy has to go, especially those ones that endanger life.’”
Recently, dozens of Baptist leaders from 22 states joined that rally cry, calling on the White House to step in and clean up the mess that Biden made of federal law. As 40 of them wrote in a letter delivered to the president, “We respectfully urge your immediate action to stop the mail-order distribution of the abortion drug mifepristone, which now accounts for more than 60% of all U.S. abortions. Enabled by the previous administration’s rollback of FDA safety protocols, this dangerous drug has caused serious adverse events in nearly 11% of users and poses grave risks to women — especially when dispensed without in-person screening or ultrasound evaluation.”
Even for those women who take it believing the industry’s lies that it’s an “easier” abortion — the horrors are unlike anything they could imagine. “[The blood ] — it looked like I was sitting in the middle of a crime scene. I suppose it was a crime scene. I mean, I had just murdered my child … But this couldn’t be normal. Planned Parenthood didn’t ever tell me this could happen. … I decided that I would call them in the morning … if I didn’t die before then.” Abby Johnson’s story is sadly typical.
She tells her testimony now of the terrifying 12 hours she spent lying on the bathroom floor. She explains the eight weeks of blood clots. Eight weeks of nausea. Eight weeks of excruciating cramps. Eight weeks of heavy bleeding. “I had seen too many women … hurt by this ‘natural’ abortion method. There was nothing natural about it.” When she asked her Planned Parenthood coworkers why they weren’t telling women what really happens, her supervisor said, “Well, we don’t want to scare them.”
“This drug is extremely harmful,” she continued, pointing to the more than one-in-10 women who experience “sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection, incomplete abortion that requires surgery, [or a follow-up] ER visit after taking this drug.” That’s “shockingly high,” she stressed. “This drug is extremely dangerous, and it should not be approved by the FDA.”
Which is why Baptist leaders “respectfully request” that President Trump do three things: “1. Restore and strengthen FDA safety protocols for mifepristone, including an ultrasound requirement; 2. Direct the FDA to reevaluate the drug’s approval; and 3. Instruct the Department of Justice to enforce the Comstock Act, to protect states’ rights to uphold pro-life laws.”
As leaders like Dr. Will Hall, director of the Office of Public Policy at the Louisiana Baptist Convention, made quite clear to Trump, “Women, unborn children, and the rule of law urgently need your leadership.”