Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, a Catholic and co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, denounced the Supreme Court’s May 14 order that temporarily preserved mail-order access to the abortion drug mifepristone, arguing that the ruling leaves women and unborn children at risk and vowing to continue the fight against the abortion drug.
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In a May 14 statement reacting to the court’s emergency order in Danco Laboratories v. Louisiana, Smith said the ruling leaves in place serious safety risks associated with the drug, which is used in roughly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S.
“The Supreme Court’s ruling today is deeply disheartening,” Smith said. “But it’s not over — the fight to protect women and children from baby poison (the abortion pill) will continue.”
He praised the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for blocking the Biden-era Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy that expanded access to mifepristone through telehealth prescriptions and mail delivery.
As Zeale News previously reported, the appeals court on May 1 ruled in favor of Louisiana, which argued that the FDA policy undermined its pro-life laws by allowing abortion drugs to be mailed into the state. That ruling would have restored in-person safeguards nationwide, but mifepristone manufacturers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro asked the Supreme Court to intervene. The Supreme Court’s latest May 14 order put the Fifth Circuit’s ruling on hold while the case proceeds.
“Mifepristone is extremely dangerous to both mother and child. Nearly 11% of women — more than one in ten — who take this dangerous drug experience serious, adverse events within 45 days, including sepsis, hemorrhaging, and/or infection,” Smith said, citing a 2025 Ethics and Public Policy Center study that analyzed data regarding more than 865,000 mifepristone abortions.
“The severe and sustained harms that mifepristone poses to babies and their mothers cannot be ignored,” he added. “The named and nameless victims of this chemical abortion drug deserve relief and protection.”
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