Operation Rescue’s 2024 Annual Report, which surveys every abortion clinic across the nation, found that an alarming 64% of America’s abortion clinics offer the abortion pill between 11 and 13 weeks of pregnancy, well beyond the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approved gestational cut-off of 10 weeks.
It’s important to note that even the 10 week gestational cut-off is much later than what was originally approved by the FDA. Mifeprex (mifepristone) was first approved for chemical abortions in 2000 with a gestational cut-off of seven weeks. In 2016, the gestational cut-off was moved to 10 weeks, when paired with an in-person visit. This dangerous rollback ushered in a steady removal of safety regulations over the next several years.
Those removals came to a head in 2020, when the Biden administration used the COVID pandemic to temporarily suspend the requirement that abortion drugs must be given during an in-person visit with a doctor.
Shortly after Biden allowed the temporary suspension, the FDA made that change permanent, and abortion-pills-by-mail began to skyrocket. When a group of doctors dealing with growing complications from the reckless use of the abortion pill regimen tried to challenge these dangerous changes in the courts, the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled the doctors had no standing and allowed all the rollbacks to stay in place.
By 2023, Operation Rescue’s Annual Survey identified the number of abortion facilities mailing the death-inducing drugs with no in-person visit or ultrasound nearly doubled – from 94 to 184. […]
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