Donald Eason, president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, signed a pro-life coalition letter (PDF) to Todd Blanche, U.S. acting attorney general, calling on him to reverse the Trump administration’s attempt to stop states’ lawsuits against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for expanding access to dangerous abortion drugs without a safety review.
Seventy-eight coalition members signed the letter.
In separate lawsuits, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas urged the FDA to restrict access to abortion drugs after the agency approved a generic version of mifepristone, which hasn’t been evaluated since initial approval in 2000.
The letter mentioned the plight of Rosalie Markezich, a plaintiff in the Louisiana lawsuit. Her boyfriend coerced her to take mifepristone, which he obtained through the mail by using her private information.
“Tragically, to date, this Department of Justice has downplayed the harms of mail-order abortion and called for each case to be paused or even dismissed entirely,” the letter reads. “Meanwhile, thousands of abortion drugs are being mailed all over the United States daily, even from overseas, with zero oversight.”
The signers urged the U.S. Department of Justice, which is trying to dismiss the lawsuits, to stop siding with the abortion industry “and stand with pro-life states and brave women like Rosalie.”
A court last week paused Louisiana’s and Markezich’s lawsuit pending an FDA safety review.
