The Smartest Pro-Life Move Nobody's Talking About
The Trump Justice Department just made a brilliant chess move on the abortion pill. Here's the coming checkmate move.
President Donald Trump has already secured his legacy by torpedoing Joe Biden's greatest mistakes. From sealing the border to ending the green scam to protecting kids from trans cultists, he’s made real progress in restoring America’s greatness. But one of the deadliest Biden-era decisions still stands untouched: mail-order death.
I'm talking, of course, about the Biden Food and Drug Administration's rash December 2021 decision to let anyone buy deadly abortion drugs through the mail, no doctor supervision required. That gift to Big Abortion has spiked abortions to 1.1 million each year—higher than under Roe v. Wade—and harms or kills one in 10 mothers who ingest the abortion pill, mifepristone.
Here's what the headlines won't say: The Trump Justice Department just played this beautifully. And Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is now pushing them to finish the job.
Pull up a chair.
On May 14, the Supreme Court stayed a lower court's ruling, allowing mail-order abortion to continue nationwide as a lawsuit challenging the practice moves forward. The drug's manufacturer asked SCOTUS for that stay. Yet notice who didn't file? The Trump DOJ.
You're looking at strategy, not hesitation. Let me explain.
Without the federal government actively defending its interest in the outcome, the drugmaker is poised to lose in the high court. Louisiana wins the right to block mail-order abortion drugs from crossing its borders and poisoning its residents. Other pro-life states—Texas, Arkansas, Alabama—will swiftly follow. Abortion sanctuary states like California and New York will keep their unconstitutional "shield" laws protecting abortionists who ship pills into pro-life states.
And just like that, the FDA is staring at a regulatory patchwork that cannot stand. Fifty states with 50 rules. An administrative nightmare.
Were that it, we'd be lost. But there's only one way out of a patchwork: a single national standard.
And given the mounting peer-reviewed evidence of sepsis, hemorrhaging, and even death—data Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has rightly said the Biden FDA "twisted" to suppress—the only defensible standard is the old standard.
The Trump 1.0 standard, to be precise. The commonsense rule that governed mifepristone for two decades before Biden's flunkies torched it in 2021, citing COVID rather than any new evidence of safety. In-person dispensation with real doctors, real supervision, and real accountability.
The Trump administration won't have banned a single pill. The courts will have done the work. The FDA will simply be forced—responsibly—to harmonize national policy around the safeguards that protected American women under the first Trump administration and two prior presidents.
For an administration that doesn't need more nasty headlines from the leftist media, that's a Godsend. For a nation reeling under a mounting infanticide crisis, it's a return to sanity, delivered by a Justice Department savvy enough to know when to fight and when to let gravity do the work.
That's the plan—if the White House stays the course.
Enter Hawley. On June 11, during acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation process, the Missouri senator publicly pressed Blanche on whether the DOJ would settle the multi-state mifepristone lawsuits rather than keep defending Biden's indefensible policy in court. Hawley, who sits on the Judiciary Committee and can single-handedly stall the nomination, says he expects Blanche—a longtime pro-life ally—to agree.
Hawley is right. And he's been joined by SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser, who's calling on Blanche's DOJ to settle with Louisiana via a court-ordered consent decree—one that would immediately end Biden's mail-order scheme and restore in-person dispensing while the FDA finishes its safety review of mifepristone.
That consent decree gives the administration everything it needs by making the courts, not Trump, the media's target. When this case wraps up in Louisiana's favor—as the merits suggest it will—the Trump FDA should issue the most boring memo in the Beltway. Think: "After reviewing substantial peer-reviewed guidance, the agency finds the elevated risk inconsistent with its mandate to protect the general health of the American people and therefore recommends an immediate return to its safeguards as of November 2021."
No fireworks needed.
Remember that Biden normalized abortion-by-mail with the stroke of a pen. The Trump administration can end it without signing a thing—just by listening to Hawley and letting justice take its course.
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