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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced federal lawsuits against New York, California, and Massachusetts for enabling mail-order abortions by refusing to extradite abortionists charged with sending abortion pills into Louisiana, where elective abortion is banned. The state argues that these 'shield' laws violate Louisiana's sovereignty and criminal laws, citing cases where mailed abortion drugs resulted in the deaths of babies and harm to women, and is also challenging the FDA's 2023 policy allowing telehealth prescribing and mail delivery of abortion pills in federal court.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, along with Alabama and Arkansas attorneys general, filed two lawsuits targeting abortion pill providers and challenging blue-state shield laws that block prosecution of these providers, with a Supreme Court case against New York, California, and Massachusetts and a separate lawsuit in Louisiana against over 30 individuals and organizations. The complaints allege illegal distribution of abortion pills into states banning abortions, highlight refusal by governors of New York and California to extradite indicted doctors, and describe investigations revealing unsupervised online prescriptions and cases of coerced abortion pill use, while also seeking more federal action and challenging FDA rules on mifepristone dispensing.

Arkansas, Louisiana, and Alabama have filed an original action before the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal lawsuit against New York, California, and Massachusetts to challenge pro-abortion 'shield laws' that protect abortionists mailing abortion drugs to pro-life states.

The FDA has delayed safety reviews of the abortion drug mifepristone for 26 years and recently argued in court that pro-life states like Louisiana lack standing to sue over its chemical abortion regulations. Louisiana is challenging the FDA's 2021 decision to allow mifepristone to be mailed, which weakened safety protocols and has led to illegal abortions in pro-life states, but the FDA and the drug manufacturer argue that Louisiana must first petition the FDA and that such petitions would not necessarily fail, despite past delays and lack of response from the agency.

Cases where women were coerced or forced to take abortion pills by their partners, including incidents in Wisconsin and Louisiana, highlighting the ease of obtaining abortion pills online without proper safeguards. It also reports on a federal lawsuit against the FDA and an OB-GYN's test showing that online abortion pill providers do not verify identities or medical conditions, allowing potentially dangerous situations for women to occur.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently heard oral arguments in State of Louisiana v. FDA, a case challenging the FDA's policy allowing chemical abortion drugs to be mailed without an in-person medical exam, a policy initiated during the Covid-19 pandemic and continued by both the Biden and Trump administrations.

Alliance Defending Freedom is challenging the FDA's policy that allows abortion drugs like mifepristone to be mailed, arguing it undermines state laws that prohibit abortion and can lead to coercion, as in the case of Rosalie Markezich in Louisiana. Pro-life organizations, including Family Council, have filed legal briefs and are urging the federal government to reverse the FDA's mail-order abortion drug policy, citing health risks and the need for in-person medical oversight.

A Louisiana father secretly slipped abortion pills into his pregnant daughter's food. She went into premature labor, and that baby is now fighting for life in a Lafayette NICU. Now a federal...

Louisiana filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore safety restrictions on abortion pills that were removed by the Biden administration, arguing that the removal of the in-person dispensing requirement undermines state laws and harms women.

Novielli reviews oral arguments in Louisiana's challenge to federal rules permitting mailed abortion pills. She describes the state's claims of legal and financial harm and criticism of the federal government's focus on standing.

The Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Louisiana's lawsuit challenging abortion-pill regulations. Louisiana presented arguments based on state sovereignty and Medicaid costs, seeking specific relief in the case.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the Louisiana vs FDA case regarding the FDA's 2023 decision to remove the requirement for an in-person doctor visit before receiving an abortion pill, which Louisiana claims has led to unsafe mailing of abortion pills.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Louisiana v. FDA to be argued in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 9, 2026. “Louisiana again confronts the dangers of chemical abortion pills in court, and those risks include threats to endangered species, which we detailed in our amicus brief,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “A peer-reviewed study shows that mifepristone and mifepristone equivalents taint the water where it was tested. The risk to ... Read More The post Students for Life Again Supports Louisiana’s Case Against the FDA with an Amicus Brief, As Chemical Abortion Pill Policy to be Debate

A 2024 state law reclassified misoprostol and mifepristone as controlled substances. That affects how hospitals can access the drugs in non-abortion emergencies, and other states appear to be taking note.

“Because of the failures of the Trump Administration to enforce the Comstock Act or to thoroughly review the so-called science that supports Chemical Abortion Pill policy, dangerous pathological medical waste goes into our waterways by the tons every year,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “In our amicus brief, we argue that the failure to protect endangered species from abortion water ... Read More The post Students for Life Again Stands with Louisiana in Case Against the Food & Drug Administration, Still Dropping the Ball in Protecting Human Beings & Endangered Species from Deadly C

Louisiana resident Jamelle Kelly has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies after allegedly dosing a pregnant woman with Chemical Abortion Pills against her will. As a result of the pills, the woman was admitted to the hospital, where she underwent an emergency C-section at just 23 weeks. Miraculously, the baby was born alive despite weighing just a pound and is currently in the ... Read More The post Louisiana Case Reminds Us, Yet Again, That Chemical Abortion Is the Abuser’s Dream appeared first on Students for Life of America .

For Immediate Release: June 12, 2026 Contact: media@sbaprolife.org | View Newsroom Louisiana Mother Hospitalized; Infant Fighting for Life Washington, D.C. – In the latest violent domestic assault using abortion drugs, a Louisiana man has been charged with felony crimes for slipping an abortion drug to a woman without her knowledge. Local media report that the woman was […]

Rosalie Markezich loved working with children at her daycare job.1,2 According to documents uploaded by Louisiana Right to Life, she looked at the positive result of her pregnancy test and smiled. However, she was apprehensive about her boyfriend’s reaction. Should she tell him? “I decided he... The post Mailed Abortion Pills and Victimization: Part 1—Abusers appeared first on The Human Life Review .

By Alasdaire FleitasVolunteer Contributor, Save the Storks The Supreme Court cases, Danco Laboratories v Louisiana and GenBioPro v Louisiana, ruled that the manufacturers of the pill used for chemical abortions can continue to mail the drug mifepristone across state lines despite Louisiana’s abortion ban. This ruling comes on the heels of the infamous 2022 Supreme Court case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health […] The post Supreme Court Abortion Pill Ruling Expands Access to Mifepristone Nationwide appeared first on Save the Storks .

The Chemical Abortion Pill cartel has been exposed for breaking U.S. law — and they’re openly bragging that they’ll do it again. As Louisiana’s court case against the FDA threatens to the end the criminal practice of death-by-mail Chemical Abortion Pill prescription and delivery, abortion vendors are making it clear that they have no intention to stop, no matter what. Scientific American recently wrote in support of long-debunked pro-abortion myths, pushing telehealth prescription and mailing of Chemical Abortion Pills despite the ... Read More The post HEALTH UNCONSCIOUS: Chemical Abortion Pi

The Supreme Court may have allowed for the mail distribution of Chemical Abortion Pills, but two of its justices aren’t letting them do it in peace — and they’re practically quoting Students for Life of America’s (SFLA) messaging. On May 14, the Supreme Court decided to allow for the mass telehealth prescription and mail trafficking of Chemical Abortion Pills to continue while Louisiana’s case against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for allowing ... Read More The post SCOTUS Justices Thomas and Alito Side with Students for Life: Death-by-Mail Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking MUST END

The U.S. Supreme Court might be fine with Chemical Abortion Pills being mailed to every home like Amazon packages, but America’s physicians aren’t. In Louisiana’s case against the government allowing the mass-mailing of Chemical Abortion Pills, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) had filed an amicus brief expressing concern about the abortion industry’s death-by-mail practices. “As a group of physicians, AAPS has a strong interest in defending ... Read More The post Physicians Aren’t Happy About Chemical Abortion Pill Mailing — And You Shouldn’t Be, Either appeared first

Press Release: Louisiana Right to Life Disappointed by Supreme Court Order Allowing Mail-Order Abortion Drug Policy to Continue.

“This is a mistake by the Supreme Court with life-and-death implications, a tragedy for preborn babies and their mothers nationwide. Death-by-Mail – established during the Biden Administration – has continued unchecked by the Trump team to this point. The policy harms preborn babies and their mothers, as dangerous, unregulated pills go to abusers, in unmarked packages, leading to chaos in homes across America,” ... Read More The post Chemical Abortion Pill Pushers & Abusers Win Again as the Supreme Court Allows Reckless Distribution as Louisiana’s Case Proceeds appeared first on Students for L

AAPLOG’s amicus brief in Danco v. Louisiana and GenBioPro v. Louisiana filed May 6th affirms that women deserve real medicine, not a mail-order workaround that benefits only the abortion industry. Urging the Supreme Court to leave the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in place (which would immediately reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for the abortion drug mifepristone), the brief shows that […] The post AAPLOG Files Amicus Brief in Danco v Louisiana first appeared on AAPLOG - American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians & Gynecologists .