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Mail-order abortion drugs have opened the door to a dangerous new form of abuse, enabling coercion, manipulation and poisoning. With a few clicks, bad actors can obtain these powerful drugs and use them to harm women and girls without their knowledge or consent.

This isn’t speculation. It’s already happening – again and again.

Coercion: A Widespread, Hidden Crisis

According to research from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, more than 60% of women who had abortions say they faced pressure to do so from boyfriends, family members, or others.

By stripping away safeguards like in-person dispensing requirements for abortion drugs, Biden’s FDA made it easy for bad actors to obtain these dangerous drugs.

Without seeing a woman in person, doctors can’t screen for medical complications, coercion or abuse. And when abortion drugs are ordered online, there’s no way to know if the person on the other side of the screen is acting freely, or if an abuser is lurking just out of view or even making the purchase himself.

This lack of commonsense safeguards has created an unregulated, dangerous market where anyone, anywhere, can get their hands on high-risk drugs.

The ones benefiting from this? Abusers and the abortion industry.

The victims? Moms and their unborn children.

Here are a few of their stories:

Real Stories of Women Harmed by Abortion Drugs

Toledo, Ohio:

An Ohio woman was assaulted and poisoned by mail-order abortion drugs by her medical resident boyfriend, who purchased the drugs online. The man had reportedly pressured her to have an abortion when she found out she was pregnant, but the victim stated she did not want one. The Ohio Medical Board has unanimously voted to suspend the license of the University of Toledo Medical Center surgery resident, finding “clear and convincing evidence” that he poses an immediate danger to the public.

The board’s findings state that the man admitted to using his estranged wife’s name, date of birth, and driver’s license number without her knowledge or consent to order the drugs from an out-of-state abortion business, paying for them with his own credit card.He had the drugs shipped to his address and admitted to crushing the pills to make them dissolve faster and adjusting the dosage. The victim reportedly awoke to find him holding her down and forcing the crushed substance inside her mouth.

She managed to escape and drove to the emergency room, where she was diagnosed with vaginal bleeding. Her baby did not survive. Hospital notes from her visit read: “Assault victim (Pt was held down by the neck by sexual partner after telling him she had a positive pregnancy test. Pt states that he forced an unknown substance into her mouth. She shoved and scratched him off her and got away at kitchen).”

Baton Rouge, Louisiana:

In 2023, Rosalie Markezich became pregnant and wanted to keep her baby. Her boyfriend, however, did not. Without her consent, he ordered abortion drugs online — prescribed by a California doctor who never once spoke to Rosalie — and had them mailed to her home in Louisiana.

Rosalie resisted her boyfriend’s pressure to abort her baby, but one day he drove her to an unfamiliar location, away from anyone who could help. “Don’t make me do this,” she pleaded. His anger escalated until, terrified, Rosalie finally gave in. He watched as she swallowed the drugs. She wanted to run away and vomit them up, but it was too late. The drugs took her baby’s life. Rosalie is still grieving the traumatic loss of her child.

Normal, Illinois:

A man has been charged with homicide after allegedly drugging his girlfriend with mifepristone at approximately seven weeks of pregnancy.

Police reportedly found the woman crying in her bathroom amid “a large amount of blood,” and the body of her child in the toilet. The man reportedly told police he wanted his girlfriend to have an abortion and that he bought mifepristone for $50 from “a girl on campus.”

Gig Harbor, Washington:

David Coots, a former nurse practitioner, pleaded guilty to assaulting his patient and mistress by secretly inserting abortion drugs into her body.

The woman detailed her harrowing experience:

“I spent three days at home, unable to eat, vomiting, cramping and bleeding so much that at times I had to sit and remain in the shower. I was scared and trying to hide it all from my daughter,” she said. “David’s concern was only that he silence me.”

The woman reported to police that she went to an emergency room where more drugs were found inside her. She suffered abnormal bleeding and stomach pain for days.

Parker County, Texas:

38-year-old Justin Anthony Banta was accused of secretly spiking his pregnant girlfriend’s coffee with abortion drugs that he allegedly ordered online.

The woman was happily pregnant and had just left her sonogram appointment that morning, celebrating the healthy heartbeat of her 6-week-old baby. But later that same day, without her knowledge or consent, her boyfriend allegedly poisoned her with abortion drugs.

The following day the woman ran to the emergency room with extreme bleeding. Her baby did not survive.

Houston, Texas:

A Texas attorney was convicted of repeatedly attempting to kill his unborn child by secretly spiking his pregnant wife’s drinks with abortion drugs – seven times in total.

He allegedly told his wife, Catherine Herring, that the pregnancy “would ruin his plans and make him look like a jerk.” One spring morning, after their counselor suggested they spend spring break together, he brought her breakfast and water, insisting she drink the entire cup before he would leave, according to court documents.

After consuming the beverage, Catherine became severely ill, experiencing cramping and heavy bleeding, and rushed to the emergency room. Suspecting she was being poisoned, she installed cameras around her home, which revealed that on six other occasions he had laced her drinks with abortion drugs – though she did not consume them.

Her daughter Josephine survived but was born 10 weeks premature and has developmental delays, requiring intensive weekly therapy.

Watertown, Massachusetts:

A 43-year-old man from Brookline was indicted after allegedly deceiving his ex-girlfriend into taking abortion drugs, which he told her were “iron supplements” or “vitamins.”

He coerced her into ingesting the drugs, insisting she hold them in her mouth until dissolved and even physically ensuring their consumption by checking her mouth.

After taking the drugs, the woman experienced shivering and severe cramps. The drugs not only caused the death of her unborn child but inflicted profound emotional and physical harm on her as well.

Brooksville, Florida:

Haley Raborn was arrested for trying to bribe her ex-fiancé to slip abortion drugs to the mother of his unborn child without her knowledge or consent. The woman targeted was 11 weeks pregnant.

According to investigators, Raborn told him that she would pay him with AirPods if he killed his unborn child with the abortion drugs.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana:

A woman was charged with obtaining mail-order abortion drugs from a New York abortionist and forcing her teenage daughter to take them and end her own grandchild’s life.

The teenager was looking forward to welcoming her baby into the world and had even planned a gender reveal party.

The mother ordered the drugs through an online questionnaire, without any consultation with the daughter, and forced her to take them. Her daughter then experienced a severe medical emergency, prompting a 911 call and hospitalization. Her baby did not survive.

Meanwhile, Dr. Margaret Carpenter, the New York abortionist who illegally shipped the drugs to the mom in Texas, is insulated from accountability by her state’s so-called “shield law,” which stops abortion drug dealers from facing consequences when they break laws in other states – even when they kill unborn children and send women and girls to the ER.

“As a nation, we should be horrified by these stories and the Biden administration’s reckless policy of mail-order abortion drugs that is fueling the rise of this new form of domestic violence.”

– Kelsey Pritchard, SBA Pro-Life America’s political affairs communication director