Josh Hawley Introduces Law To Ban Mailing Of Abortion Pills, Citing Junk Science Report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

May 7, 2025, 12:53 PM EDT


Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a law on Tuesday to restrict the abortion pill mifepristone, citing an anti-abortion junk science report that has been making the rounds in conservative media. The “Restoring Safeguard for Dangerous Abortion Drugs Act” aims to restrict mifepristone by reinstating 2011 Food and Drug Administration rules around the medication.

Those rules, loosened by the Biden and Obama administrations, would limit who can prescribe mifepristone and require in-person visits for abortion pills — effectively banning telemedicine for abortion, which now accounts for 20% of all abortions in the U.S. It would also mandate in-person follow-up visits and further limit how far into pregnancy mifepristone can be prescribed.

The bill also seeks to allow women to sue telemedicine providers who mail abortion pills and ban foreign companies from importing the medication into the country. The latter element would target international groups like Aid Access, which mail abortion pills from overseas and have been vital to abortion access since Roe v. Wade fell.

“I’m introducing the Restoring Safeguards for Dangerous Abortion Drugs Act after a bombshell study revealed the truth about mifepristone: it’s dangerous,” Hawley said in a press release. “The data shows 1 in 10 women who take mifepristone experience adverse health effects, like going to the ER or suffering from sepsis. The FDA needs to act to protect women now.” It’s unlikely the bill will pass, given Hawley needs seven Democrats to vote in favor.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-hawley-introduces-law-to-ban-mailing-of-abortion-pills-citing-junk-science-report_n_681b808ce4b01488b7bfa2a7

[nwduke]

1. A man!

That’s all I have to say about that!🤬

[Skittles]

4. mansplaining at its finest

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[chouchou]

2. Josh Hawley might want to start paying more attention to Missouri's not-so-good ranking in the 50 states...

...instead of telling women how to lead their life. (Never cared for him anyway)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Remind me again why persons who will never ever be pregnant,

who cannot possibly become pregnant, are allowed to decide these things?

What part of "It's none of your goddam business" isn't clear?

It also seems that those criminalizing it, are essentially ignorant of the entire process involved

[Skittles]

5. it's a supremacist thing

they are bothered by the fact that that everything they achieve is outdone by the ability to literally grow and give birth to a human being - so naturally they try to exert their control

repukes show over and over they don't give a DAMN about "life"

[WinstonSmith4740]

6. Ver-r-ry interesting.

But stupid.
(With a bow to Artie Johnson )
Even using junk "science" the worst they could come up with is a 10% possibility of having to go to an ER, or developing sepsis. Now, I'm now trying to downplay the seriousness of either of those possibilities, but no, I'm not buying that the same people who seem to have very little (or any) problem with women bleeding out on hospital parking lots, or developing sepsis because people like him passed laws making it impossible for doctors to properly treat women who are suffering a miscarriage, are suddenly VERY concerned that women are being harmed.

[Rebl2]

7. Hawley

Back the hell off. We can take care of ourselves.

[Seinan Sensei]

8. Hawley should also ban mailing of Boner Pills

Those things can be dangerous too!

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. I nwver trust a man with wierd hair.

Reagan, Nixon, Trump. Stephen Miller doesn't have any hair but his head is really odd shape made worse by really expensive tinted aviator glasses.

I don't think I have ever been wrong.